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...military tribunals in Guantánamo, a ruling that sounded one of the first death knells for Camp X-Ray. But two years later, difficult questions about how to close Guantánamo continue to vex legal minds ranging from Katyal to the advisers now gathering around President-elect Barack Obama. "This is a huge and difficult problem," says Katyal, who teaches national-security law at Georgetown University. "I don't actually see obvious answers...
...Daley's chief of staff, she hired Michelle Obama (then Michelle Robinson) to work as assistant to the mayor - but not before re-assuring Michelle's fiancé, Barack Obama, that the job was right...
Chicago businesswoman Valerie Jarrett has earned all sorts of nicknames as an aide to President-elect Barack Obama - from "First Friend" to "big sister" to "the other half of Obama's brain." As co-chair of his transition team, Jarrett has spent the past week denying rumors, parsing policy changes and insisting that she doesn't know where she'll end up in the new administration (although Beltway gossip suggests she may be appointed to Obama's seat in the Senate). Of her relationship with the 44th commander-in-chief, Jarrett says simply: "He is my dear friend. I would...
...trust her completely." - Barack Obama, describing his relationship with Jarrett (Chicago Tribune, July...
...calm herself that you find yourself fighting to stay calm as well, trying to even out your tone." - The Rev. Al Sharpton, who credits Jarrett for convincing him to endorse Barack Obama (The New Republic...