Monday, March 30, 2009

Rahm Emanuel's Older Bother Emerges in Key White House Post

The Chicago Tribune reports:
He's the eldest brother, a doctor and a scholar with a resume the size of a small book. Though brothers Ari and Rahm are both celebrities, he's the one they think could someday win the Nobel Prize.

Now, Ezekiel Emanuel has become something of a public figure, like his famous siblings, as he pursues a new challenge: trying to help the Obama administration reform the health-care system.

It's an enormously difficult task given the nation's economic woes, and one for which the former Chicagoan appears uniquely well suited but also surprisingly unprepared.
The Chicago Way is to bring in a relative.