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Valerie Jarrett Position: Transition co-chair Experience: Jarrett, 51, is a Chicagoan who has done a little of everything in Barack Obama's adoptive home town. Born in Shiraz, Iran, where her father ran a hospital for poor children, Jarrett was raised in Hyde Park, the neighborhood where the Obam... (link)

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