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Chicago, Dec. 17 : Everyone knows that US President-elect Barack Obama is obsessed with sports, and to prove it, he has assembled what he proudly calls ''the best basketball-playing cabinet in American history''.
According to The Telegraph, the latest to join the ranks is Arne Duncan, 44, Obama''s education secretary.
Duncan is a 6ft 5in tall former co-captain of Harvard''s basketball team who also played professionally in Australia.
Chicago, Dec. 14 : US President-elect Barack Obama has been using his four minutes of weekend airtime not only to speak directly to the American people, but also to create news.
According to the Washington Post, Obama used the address to announce Shaun Donovan, New York City''s housing commissioner, as his nominee to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Obama has previously outlined a series of specific proposals aimed at reversing the nation''s economic torpor, and he sketched out a plan to save or create 2.5 million jobs over the next two years.
Chicago, Dec. 13 : US President-elect Barack Obama''s economic team is considering an economic-stimulus program that could be in excess of 600 billion dollars to be used over a period of two years.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, sources close to the Obama camp said with the unemployment rate now expected to hit nine percent without aggressive intervention, Obama aides and advisers have set $600 billion over two years as "a very low-end estimate."
The final number is expected to be significantly higher, possibly between 700 billion dollars and a trillion dollars over two years.
Chicago, Dec. 13: Rahm Emanuel, US President-elect Barack Obama's designated Chief of Staff, is reportedly facing claims that he had repeated conversations with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who has been accused of trying to sell Obama''s US Senate seat.
Sources close to the investigation were quoted by The Telegraph as saying that Emanuelhad conversations about the issue with both Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris, who is also facing corruption charges.