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When Barry Became Barack: Newsweek has an article of how and why Barack Obama prefers to be called his formal African name (Barack) rather than Barry Obama. [photo link]

Barry Obama decided that he didn't like his nickname. A few of his friends at Occidental College had already begun to call him Barack (his formal name), and he'd come to prefer that. The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: no more Barry.

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