The Week That Was: Bo-tax, Breakups and Brews

President Barack Obama sat down and had a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the police sergeant who arrested him, James Crowley, in the Rose Garden Thursday in an attempt to move past the national uproar over race that engulfed the two men.

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The Week That Was: Bo-tax, Breakups and Brews

President Obama had a beer with Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. James Crowley, Kim and Reggie broke up, and the Senate Finance Committee contemplates a cosmetic surgery tax.

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