Barack's Rock

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Barack's Rock 기사의 번역문은 2008년 2월 27일자 40쪽에 실렸습니다. Michelle Obama was never much interested in calling attention to herself. As an undergrad at Princeton in the 1980s, she was interested in social change, but didn't run for

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student government. Instead, she spent her free time running a literacy program for kids from the local neighborhoods. At Harvard Law, she took part in demonstrations demanding more minority students and professors. Yet unlike another more prominent Harvard Law student who would later take up the cause, she was not one to hold forth with

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high-flown oratory about the need for diversity. "When [Barack Obama] spoke, people got quiet and listened," recalls Prof. Randall Kennedy. "Michelle had a more modest, quieter, lower profile." Barack won election as president of the Law Review. Michelle put her energy into a less glamorous pursuit: recruiting black undergrads to Harvard Law from other schools. For her, politics wasn't so much about being inspirational as it was being practical - about getting something specific done, says Charles Ogletree, one of her professors. "She was not trying to get ahead." She no longer has the luxury of keeping a low profile. Now a very public figure, Michelle has accepted the role of aspiring First Lady and the sometimes uncomfortable scrutiny that comes with it. On the campaign trail, she is sometimes slated as the

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opening act, introducing Barack to the audience. Direct and plain-spoken, with an edgy sense of humor uncommon in a political spouse, she complements her husband's more grandiose style. She can be tough, and even a little steely, an attitude that stems, at least in part, from wanting to live up to the high expectations her father set for her. She wants to change the world, but she also wants to win this thing now that they're so deeply invested. If his loftiness can set him apart from the crowd, her bluntness draws them in. Standing up before large audiences wasn't easy at first. "I've never participated at this level in any of his campaigns," she told NEWSWEEK last week. "I have usually chosen to just appear when necessary." From the beginning of the campaign, Michelle made it clear to her husband that she would

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give the effort her all ("We need to be in there now, while we've still fresh and open and fearless and bold," she told Vanity Fair last December), but not at the expense of family life. At two meetings with the candidate and his political aides shortly before he announced his intention to run, she grilled them about particulars, practical concerns that had nothing to do with his sweeping themes of "hope" and "change." What demands would the campaign place on their lives? Where would the money come from? Could they really take on the Clinton machine and win, or was this just an extended ego trip? "She didn't want Barack to launch some kind of empty effort here," says senior strategist David Axelrod. Michelle also raised concerns about her husband's safety. It was one of the first questions her own family had asked her when she first aired the possibility of running. He would soon be assigned

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Secret Service protection very early in the campaign, in response to the huge crowds he was drawing and threatening e-mails. Michelle, who now has a security team of her own, does not like to discuss the possibility of Barack's getting hurt. "We are grateful the Secret Service is a part of it," she told NEWSWEEK last summer. "I'm probably more grateful than Barack, who loves to live a very normal life. This is the first sign that our lives aren't normal." At the meetings, Axelrod and the other aides addressed each of Michelle's questions. "

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Suffusing these discussions was, if we did it, she and he both wanted to make sure it was consistent with who he is and what he thinks, and wouldn't distort that," says Axelrod. She has expressed fears that the nastiness of presidential politics could wind up sucking the idealism out of her husband, leaving him just another soulless, cynical Washington pol. “Michelle has always been in the camp of, 'Let's not forget what we're fighting for'," Axelrod says. After the meetings, Michelle gave Barack her blessing. Since then, she has largely left the details of the campaign to her husband and his political team. Michelle does not sit in on strategy sessions,

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vet speeches or spend hours on the phone fund-raising. "I hate fund-raising," she tells NEWSWEEK. "Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it." Politics and policy animate her - like her husband, she turned away from a lucrative law career to work in public service. One late night in Iowa, she stayed up on the campaign bus,

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waxing to NEWSWEEK about the dangers of cynicism in politics. Barack, exhausted, was

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flaked out on the couch half-dozing. But she has no secret dreams of seeking office herself. When a reporter recently joked that she could run for Barack's Senate seat if he were elected president, Michelle

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made a face of mock disgust. "Ugh," she grimaced. "No, thank you." Part of Michelle Obama's appeal - she routinely draws audiences of 1,000-plus supporters even when she'ss campaigning on her own - is that she comes across as so normal despite the

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withering glare of a national campaign. As a political spouse, she is somewhat unusual. She isn't the traditional

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Stepford booster, smiling vacantly at her husband and sticking to a script of carefully vetted

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blandishments. Nor is she a surrogate campaign manager, ordering the staff around and micromanaging the candidate's every move. She travels the country giving speeches and attending events (her mother watches the kids when she's on the road), but resists staying away for more than one night

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at a stretch. When the couple catch up several times a day on the phone, the talk is more likely to be about their daughters than the latest poll projections. Michelle has made it her job to ensure that Barack, who now lives full time inside the surreal campaign bubble of adoring crowds and constant attention, doesn't himself lose sight of what's normal. Onstage, Obama has introduced Michelle as "my rock" - the person who keeps him focused and grounded. In her words, she is just making sure he is "keeping it real." She does this in part by

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tethering him

to the more mundane responsibilities of a husband and father. She insists that Barack fly home from wherever he is to attend ballet recitals and parent-teacher conferences. When the couple host political gatherings at their home in Chicago's Hyde Park, Michelle asks everyone to bring along their children. To help bridge the physical distance between father and daughters, Michelle recently bought two MacBook laptops, one for Barack and one for the kids, so they could have video chats over the Internet. Last Thursday, she cleared his schedule so he could return home to Chicago and spend Valentine's Day with her and the girls...

■ NOTES

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student government: 학생 자치회. President of student government(학생회장).

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high-flown oratory: 거창한(과장된, 공상적인) 언변(미사여구).

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opening act: (콘서트나 공연 등에서) 주요 연기자의 공연 전에 나와 분위기를 띄우는 연기자.

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give the effort her all: 그 노력에 그녀의 모든 것을 주다, 선거운동에 총력을 기울이겠다. all이 ‘모든 것’을 뜻하는 명사로 쓰였다.

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Secret Service: 재무부 산하의 대통령 경호대.

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suffuse: (액체·색·빛 등으로) 채우다, 덮다.

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vet: 꼼꼼히 음미하다, 철저히 검사하다.

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wax: 흥분하다, 감정을 드러내다.

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flake out: (피로·마약 등으로) 곯아떨어지다, 잠들다.

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make a face: 얼굴을 찡그리다, 인상을 쓰다.

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withering: (사람의 희망·자신감 등을) 위축되게 하다.

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Stepford booster: 현모양처형의 내조자. trophy stepford wife(현모양처).

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blandishments: 감언이설. blandish(구슬리다).

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at a stretch: 한 번에, 연속해서.

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tether to: ~에 연결하다, 묶다, 속박하다.

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Careful Reading

● What did Michelle Obama do when she was at Princeton? (미셸 오바마는 프린스턴대 다닐 때 무엇을 했나?)

● What questions did she have before Barack Obama decided to run for president? What do potential voters (and journalists) find so appealing about Michelle Obama? (버락 오바마가 대통령 출마를 결정하기 전에 미셸이 어떤 질문을 했나? 잠재적인 유권자와 기자들은 미셸 오바마의 어떤 점에서 매력을 느꼈나?)

● What has her "job" been during the campaign? (선거운동 중 그녀는 어떤 ‘일’을 했나?)

● What problems has she encountered on the campaign trail with her sense of humor? (선거유세 중 그녀는 자신의 날카로운 유머감각 때문에 어떤 문제에 직면했나?)

● What was Michelle's early life like? (미셸의 젊었을 때 생활은 어땠나?)

● What was her experience at Princeton like? (프린스턴대에서는 어떤 경험을 했나?)

● How does she think about the role affirmative action has played in her life? How did she meet Barack Obama? (그녀는 차별철폐 조치가 자신의 삶에서 어떤 역할을 했다고 생각하나? 버락 오바마를 어떻게 만났나?)

● What career crisis did Michelle face? (미셸은 직업상 어떤 위기에 직면했나?)

● What did she do about it? (그 위기에 어떻게 대처했나?)

● What does she say about balancing work and home? (일과 가정의 균형에 대해 어떻게 생각하나?)

● How does she speak to African Americans?fears? (흑인들의 두려움에 대해 어떻게 말하나?)

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Social Studies Activities

● Michelle Obama works hard to be sure the Obama children lead normal lives despite the presidential campaign. How does she balance caring for the children with her own ambitions, including her passion for her husband's campaign? On a more general level, how do you think raising children affects women pursuing careers? (미셸 오바마는 남편이 대통령 후보로 선거운동을 벌이지만 자녀는 정상적인 삶을 누리도록 최선을 다한다. 그녀는 자녀 양육과 남편의 선거운동에 대한 열의를 포함한 자신의 포부 사이에서 어떻게 균형을 잡는가? 더 보편적인 관점에서 자녀 양육이 여성의 직장생활에 어떤 영향을 미치나?)

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English Activities

● The article tells a story about Michelle Obama's life - her upbringing, what she's done, and where she is now. Write a summary of that narrative. Then name the type of story it is. For example, the Horatio Alger stories were called "rags-to-riches" stories. What would you call Michelle Obama's story? (이 기사는 미셸 오바마의 성장과정, 업적 그리고 현재의 모습 등 그녀의 삶에 관한 이야기다. 그 내용을 요약한 후 어떤 유형의 이야기인지 제목을 붙여보자. 예를 들어 호레이쇼 앨저의 이야기는 ‘입지전’적 성공담으로 불린다. 미셸 오바마의 이야기는 어떻게 표현하겠는가?)

● Lengthy articles sometimes include subheads to help guide readers. After you read this article, put subheads in the places that would best help readers follow what they are reading. (장문의 기사에는 종종 독자들의 이해를 돕기 위해 소제목을 단다. 기사를 읽은 후 독자들이 흐름을 파악하는 데 가장 도움이 될 만한 곳에 소제목을 넣어보자.)

Crossword Puzzle

아래 글을 읽고 퍼즐을 풀어봅시다. 이 글에 나오는 단어 중에서 답을 고르시면 됩니다.

In Praise of a Humble Coin 관련 기사는 뉴스위크 한국판 4월 16일자 80쪽에 실렸습니다. I am a grown, working man who bends over and picks up pennies on the steets of New York City. Some friends laugh. Others rebuke. One warned that picking up pennies takes on someone els's bad luck. My West Virginia mama disagreed. "Finding pennies is good fortune," she used to say. But then, Mama-Lou was a housewife who hummed to the tune of her vacuum, "Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven..." She was a product of the Great Depression, and money remained at the top of her hierarchy of human needs. But pennies get a bad rap. New York panhandlers don't want them. Schoolkids gladly give them away. Cash-refister signs read: take a penny. leave a penny. Which makes me wonder, in the penny dying? My obsession goes way back, and I fell sad that the penny could become obsolete. In high school, I wore penny loafers with pennies in the slits. I won many a penny-pitching chmpionship. My favorite Cary Grant movie was the black-and0white tearjerker "Penny Serenade." Highest on my musical list - "Pajama Game," adapted from the novel "7i Cents." the most re-read novel on my shelf remains Elliott Baker's bittersweet 1968 novel "Penny Wars," a hardcover, still in the bookcase after scores of spring cleanings. And the song that hangs around in my head the most? The Beatles' "Penny Lane."

ACROSS

1. a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums(most of them written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon) 3. affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful 4. to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements

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1. an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes; misfortune (두 단어)

2. a melody, especially a simple and easily remembered one; a song 3. a flat, usually rectangular structure composed of a rigid material, such as wood, glass, or metal, fixed at right angles to a wall or other vertical surface and used to hold or store objects 5. the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit; the uppermost or upper part

QUIZ

지난 몇 주 동안의 기사를 얼마나 잘 기억하십니까? 뉴스위크 한국판의 News Quiz로 확인해 보세요.

1. Which infectious disease is NOT caused by mosquitoes? (4월6일자 Periscope) a. cholera b. yellow fever c. dengue

2. Which European leader is trying to shift his image from celeb-flashy to more presidential? (4월6일자 Periscope) a. Gordon Brown b. Nicolas Sarkozy c. Silvio Berlusconi

3. "Superclass" refers to a privileged group of people with an unparalleled wealth and power. How many are there in the whole world? (4월6일자 Special Report) a. 60~70 b. 600~700 c. 6000~7000

4. Who does NOT belong to the Superclass top 20? (4월6일자 Special Report) a. Hu Jin-tao b. Rupert Murdoch c. George Soros

5. Who are NOT China's restive minorities? (4월6일자 World Affairs) a. the Uighurs b. the Han Chinese c. the Tibetans

6. What have Darful activists been calling this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing? (4월6일자 World Affairs) a. the pollution Olympics b. the superpower olympics c. the genocide Olympics

Correct answers: 1. a 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. b 6. c