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Rahm and Rhetoric?


Submitted by Jim Aune on November 6, 2008 - 6:06pm


According to Wikipedia, Rahm Emanuel has an Master's degree in Comm Studies from Northwestern. Can anyone confirm? (1985, it says.)(And he belongs to a Modern Orthodox shul--Axelrod signed the ketubah at his wedding--I could just plotz. . . Omri, feeling any better yet?) Meanwhile, you can apply for jobs in the new administration here.

Submitted by Anonymous on November 15, 2008 - 7:48pm.

Emanuel's M.A. committee was chaired by Tom Farrell in the mid-1980s.

Submitted by Jim Aune on November 16, 2008 - 11:49am.

Thank you! wow, two degrees of separation--life is very strange sometimes. Somehow I thought it might have been Irv Rein.

Submitted by Jim Aune on November 18, 2008 - 6:20am.
Submitted by Anonymous on November 6, 2008 - 11:26pm.

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1981 and received his Master's in Speech and Communication from Northwestern in 1985. He was senior advisor to Bill Clinton and chief fundraiser for Richard Daly.