If you love crossword puzzles...

Excerpts from the diary of Barack Obama’s former girlfriend Genevieve Cook shed light into what it was like to date the future POTUS:

"She remembered how on Sundays Obama would lounge around, drinking coffee and solving the New York Times crossword puzzle, bare-chested, wearing a blue and white sarong."

My friend, Professor George Barany, writes:

If you love crosswords, you know all about ASTA and TOTO, but to learn or be reminded about the third dog, solve the puzzle at:  http://www.mojo-working.com/GailCollins and look at the last across entry.

Then, refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfG8Btb0l3g -- President's remarks at last weekend's White House Correspondent's Dinner -- focus on the portion starting at about 10:00 and going to about 12:20 -- it's dog-gone funny (in my opinion)

However, our NEW puzzle at  http://www.mojo-working.com/ShakeItUp is apparently not yet on the White House radar screen.

And in yesterday's Gail Collins, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/opinion/collins-obamas-wonderful-town.html, we were treated to the remarkable news that our 44th president, as a 22-year old student at Columbia, would spend his Sunday mornings “drinking coffee and solving The New York Times crossword puzzle, bare-chested, wearing a blue and white sarong.”

Please pass along to family, friends, and colleagues who you believe may be interested in any of this.

GB

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George Barany
Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemistry
University of Minnesota