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From 1993 to 2004, Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School. According to his students, he was a gifted teacher. "If you had just a surface opinion, he would ask why you held it. He always dug deeper," Barbara Blank, a lawyer--and a Republican--practicing in Washington, D.C., told me earlier this year. Another former student, Josh Pemstein, said, "He liked being challenged, and he liked challenging us, as well." Perhaps unintentionally, Obama lapsed into his pedagogic persona during a recent visit to Agassiz Elementary School, in Ottumwa, Iowa. With seven weeks left before the Iowa caucuses--the curious ritual that this year really could set the course ...