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Darcy Burner knew that prospective Democratic candidates sometimes left in tears after meeting Representative Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, who heads the party's efforts to recapture the House and was the one-man screening committee for recruits. Burner, an alumna of Harvard and Microsoft, didn't cry. But she found the wiry former Clinton Administration official as ruthless as any corporate chieftain she had known, as he went down a checklist of questions, including one at the top he had written to himself: Is she worth the investment of my time and the committee's money...
...need an alarm clock anymore," says David Axelrod, a Chicago political strategist who consults for the House campaign. Emanuel sends cheesecakes from the famed Chicago bakery Eli's to show his appreciation to donors and recruits. But last year he cut off use of the phone lines at the DCCC for House Democrats who fail to pay their dues to the campaign committee, which can run from around $100,000 to $600,000 depending on seniority. The DCCC is one of the few physical places those politicians can use to raise cash during work hours, as they are barred from...
According to regulatory filings, all three also donated money to Obama, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and a University of Chicago senior lecturer, during his 2004 senatorial campaign...
...Although the title made him sound like a dork, he came off as sensitive, curious and awed by the culture. And after our interview, he stayed at the restaurant to talk to people who work there about their live-music nights and the fact that the owner is from Chicago--which I discovered after he sprinted after my car to tell me I forgot to sign the check. When he stops moving, Piven is a really likable...
...brilliant, nuanced take on agent Ari Gold in HBO's Entourage (which returns to Sundays at 10 p.m. E.T. on June 11) is a cartoon of male rage--and Piven says he's holding back. "I could actually be a lot bigger," he says, crediting his theater work in Chicago, where his parents ran a company that trained such actors as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Lili Taylor and Lara Flynn Boyle. When he got his job at Second City, the improv group sent out the former high school linebacker in a troupe separate from hyper Saturday Night Live...