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Obama to new grads "No time for excuses"
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Past, present and future came together on a
thunderstorm-filled Sunday, as President Barack
Obama gave the commencement (graduation) speech
at historically black, all-male Morehouse College
(Georgia), where the Rev. Martin Luther King and
many other prominent African-Americans spent
their formative years. After opening with several
one-liners, and more smiles than we've seen from
him in the damage-control-filled recent weeks,
Obama delivered a serious message to the class of
2013. During his speech the president offered
nobody is going to give you anything that you
have not earned."
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In Other News

• A US Airways plane touched down without landing
  gear at Newark Liberty International Airport in
  New Jersey early Saturday morning. The plane was
  carrying 31 passengers and three crew members.
  U.S. Airways spokesman Davien Anderson told CNN
  that no injuries were reported.
• The class of 1963 crowded in a rectangle on the
  dance floor, the memories of high school fresh on
  their minds as the band played in a sea of pink
  and blue hues. Aretha Franklin. Etta James. The
  Temptations. Just what you would expect to be
  playing at a 1960s prom. Societal tensions over
  race were so high in 1963 that the city canceled
  senior prom for five of the city's segregated
  high schools for blacks. The Historic 1963 Prom,
  held Friday and hosted by the city of Birmingham,
  closed one chapter for these Alabamans.