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Published 11/10/2008 by Alec MacGillis and Ann Scott Tyson at Wash Post Obama Administration

As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to fill top positions for his incoming government, he faces a stubborn reality: Some of the key individuals he will rely upon to tackle the country's most serious challenges are holdovers from the current administration -- a trio of Bush appointees who will... (link)

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