In one of his gutsier moves, President-Elect Barack Obama has chosen UC Berkeley professor Christina Romer as the chair of his Council of Economic Advisers. Romer has been a professor at Berkeley since 1988 and previously was an assistant professor at Princeton University. She has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, several NSF gran...

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Good old Barry Obama is doing his best to mend fences and build bridges and invoke all those other architectural metaphors for being nice to old enemies. As such, he met with Hillary Clinton, his former Democrat foe, to possibly discuss her maybe position that could perhaps materialize in his administration. See, no one’s saying too much.
 

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Now that he’s president, Obama is looking to fill about 7,000 positions in the government including cabinet spots and ambassadorships. However, unlike a certain someone (*ahem* McCain *ahem*), the President-Elect is conducting at least some kind of vetting process.
 

In fact, it’s a very, very thorough vetting process. If you want to work for th...

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