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Obama's mother, Hillary Clinton shared a belief

From July 1993 to the end of 1994, Barack Obama's mother was hard at work in New York City convening experts, compiling surveys and drafting papers for a major United Nations conference in Beijing, where she hoped to show how much good can be done by lending small sums to poor women.

As Ann Dunham-Soetoro's colleagues brainstormed, they agreed that one advocate would electrify their panel:...

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