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OBAMA BITS: Ring rumor worries staffers; Warwick hosts Legends Ball; Chicago A Capella choir honors president-elect.
*The fake report generated by a London jeweler that President-elect Barack Obama was buying his wife, Michelle, a $40,000 ring -- as a thank-you present for her efforts during the campaign -- is reportedly giving Obama staffers a new worry. 'We now know we're going to have to be on guard against phony stories ... floated by people inappropriately attempting to use the president-elect's popularity to promote themselves or their businesses,' a top Obama aide told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker.
*Zwecker is also reporting that tickets went on sale Thursday for a star-studded Legends Ball in Washington on Obama's inauguration night hosted by Dionne Warwick. Guests will include Rodney Atkins, George Clinton, Chaka Khan, Marvin Sapp, the Temptations, Kirk Franklin and others. At the same hotel, Ludacris will host the Urban Ball featuring Big Boi, T-Pain, David Banner, Cedric the Entertainer, the Cheetah Girls, Fantasia, Li'l Jon and Monica. For tickets, go to AmericanMusicInaugural Balls.com.
*The Chicago A Cappella choir has added a tune to its holiday concerts this weekend in honor of the president-elect. The vocal ensemble will perform a song from the Luo people of Kenya, the ancestral tribe of Obama's father. The song, 'Nyathi Onyuol,' will be sung in the Luo language -- based on the familiar Christian text 'Unto us a child is born.' For times and locations of concerts through Sunday, go to chicagoacap pella.org or call (773) 755-1628.
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