Marion Cunningham 
OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — The company that makes the popular Beanie Babies is retiring the names “Marvelous Malia” and “Sweet Sasha” from its Ty Girlz collection — and first lady Michelle Obama is pleased. The dolls have been renamed “Marvelous Mariah” and “Sweet Sydney,” Chief Executive Ty Warner of Oak Brook-based Ty Inc. said […]
February 6, 2009 | Posted in Art & Life | Read more » 
After canceled classes caused President Obama to chide us locals as complete weather wimps, he and his wife braved the elements this morning to attend a second-grade class presentation at Sidwell Friends School’s lower-school campus in Bethesda, which their 7-year-daughter Sasha attends. Perhaps to display his Chicago-tempered, steely resistance to the cold, the president wore […]
January 30, 2009 | Posted in Nation,Obama Watch | Read more » 
Malia and Sasha Obama have only lived in D.C. for a few weeks. But their new town’s reaction to the season’s first couple of inches of snow has the young girls a little perplexed. “As my children pointed out,” President Obama said to reporters this morning, “in Chicago school is never cancelled. In fact, my 7-year-old […]
January 28, 2009 | Posted in Nation,Obama Watch | Read more » 
The company that makes the popular Beanie Babies is hoping for two more big winners with dolls named “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia.” But, no, the names do not refer to President Barack Obama’s daughters, a Ty Inc. spokeswoman says. Honest! Read full story
