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WASHINGTON, Dec 14: Barack Obama’s incoming chief of staff faced questions on Sunday over reported contacts with Illinois’s corruption-tainted governor. Rahm Emanuel, who will serve as Obama’s manager in the White House, was reported to have been in touch with Governor Rod Blagojevich about Obama’s Senate seat.—AFP

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