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Michelle Obama
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1. As a child, she loved girlie stuff like her Easy Bake Oven and Barbie (she had the car and the house, too).
2. When it comes to television, she's a fan of Sex in the City, The Sopranos and HGTV.
3. Her favorite author: Toni Morrison
4. Her father, Fraser Robinson, a former boxer, suffered from multiple sclerosis from age 30. He was a Democratic precinct captain and worked at the city water filtration plant in Chicago. Although he met and liked Barack, he died in 1991, a year before the Obamas were married.
5. As a kid, she alternated days doing dish-washing duty with her big brother, Craig. It was also her job to clean the bathroom every Saturday.
6. She skipped second grade.
7. She attended Whitney Young, Chicago's first magnet high school, where she was student council treasurer, a member of the National Honor Society and a four-year honor roll student.
8. She's a 1985 cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she shared a room with three other women and had to walk down three flights of stairs to get to the bathroom.
9. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988 and was hired by the blue chip law firm Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where she specialized in marketing and intellectual property law. She was picked to be the adviser to a summer associate, Barack Obama.
10. She doesn't wearpantyhose because they always rip; she says it's difficult to find ones that fit her 5-foot-11 frame.
11.The Rev. Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita, sang at her wedding. They're childhood friends.
12. As a newlywed, she gave up corporate law and took a huge pay cut to open the Chicago office of Public Allies, part of former President Clinton's AmeriCorps, which helped young people to enter public service work.
13. She sits on six boards, including the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, which her daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend.
14. In a job interview with University of Chicago Hospitals, she brought along baby daughter Sasha (now 7) because she couldn't find a baby sitter. She got the job.
15. She likes predawn workouts and held outdoor jump-rope clinics at her house for her daughter's ballet class.
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1. 小時(shí)候，她就喜歡簡(jiǎn)易烤爐、芭比（以及芭比的車(chē)和小房子）之類(lèi)小女孩的玩具。
2. 說(shuō)到電視，她可是《欲望都市》、黑道家族以及“居家頻道”的粉絲。
3. 她最喜歡的作家是托妮?莫里森。
4. 她的父親弗里澤?羅賓遜以前是拳擊手，30歲以后就一直深受多處硬化癥的折磨。他曾是民主黨選區(qū)區(qū)長(zhǎng)，在芝加哥市水過(guò)濾廠工作。他見(jiàn)過(guò)巴拉克，而且很喜歡他，可惜他在1991年就去世了，一年后奧巴馬才和米歇爾結(jié)婚。
5. 小時(shí)候，她與哥哥克雷格輪流洗碗。每周六她還要清掃衛(wèi)生間。
6. 她是從一年級(jí)直接跳到三年級(jí)的。
7. 她曾就讀于芝加哥第一所精英高中——惠特尼楊高中。她當(dāng)時(shí)是學(xué)生會(huì)的會(huì)計(jì)、國(guó)家榮譽(yù)協(xié)會(huì)成員，而且連續(xù)四年都是三好學(xué)生。
8. 她是1985年普林斯頓大學(xué)的優(yōu)秀畢業(yè)生。那時(shí)候，她和另外三個(gè)女人同居一室，去洗手間還得下三層樓梯。
9. 1988年，她從哈佛大學(xué)法學(xué)院畢業(yè)，之后就職于芝加哥最好的盛德律師事務(wù)所，專攻市場(chǎng)法和知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)法。她曾經(jīng)被選為暑期咨詢助理巴拉克?奧巴馬的指導(dǎo)老師。
10. 她從來(lái)不穿連褲襪，因?yàn)槟欠N褲襪很容易被刮破；她說(shuō)要找到一雙適合她5.11英尺身材的連褲襪實(shí)在太難了。
11. 杰西?杰克遜牧師（譯者注：美國(guó)黑人民權(quán)領(lǐng)袖）的女兒桑蒂塔在她的婚禮上獻(xiàn)歌。她們是童年時(shí)代的朋友。
12. 結(jié)婚不久，她放下之前從事的公司法業(yè)務(wù)，轉(zhuǎn)而開(kāi)辦了收入大不如前的芝加哥公眾聯(lián)盟辦公室，這個(gè)辦公室是美國(guó)義工團(tuán)的一部分。前總統(tǒng)克林頓發(fā)起組建了該團(tuán)體以幫助年輕人投身公眾服務(wù)工作。
13. 她是六個(gè)董事會(huì)的董事，其中包括她的兩個(gè)女兒薩莎和馬莉婭就讀的芝加哥附屬實(shí)驗(yàn)學(xué)校。
14. 她曾因?yàn)檎也坏奖Ｄ范鴰е暧椎呐畠核_莎（現(xiàn)在7歲）去芝加哥大學(xué)醫(yī)院參加面試。后來(lái)她得到了那份工作。
15. 她喜歡晨練。為了讓女兒上好芭蕾課，她還特意在家辦了個(gè)戶外跳繩保健中心。
（實(shí)習(xí)生吳昭文 英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津Helen編輯） |
