1.0 link 148154 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-bonifer/how-a-team-of-rivals-coll_b_148154.html A lot has been made of Team Obama's casting of the key roles in the new administration. There is astonishment aplenty out there that he's put together a team of such strong personalities and former rivals. This is so different, after all, from the Bush doctrine of punishing one's rivals, often preemptively. William Gates, a Bush-Cheney appointee at Defense, stays. Clinton is in. Hillary, that is. Bill wants in. How can the Clintons be managed? the pundits wonder. Rahm Emanuel's...

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