Felsenthal Files

06/22/11

The Race for the 10th District: A Look at Ilya Sheyman

The 25-year-old former community organizer is the first Democrat to jump into the race to reclaim the seat from Republican Robert Dold in 2012.

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06/15/11

Investigation Shows Obama Bundlers Land Cushy Jobs

A must-read investigation shows President Obama is appointing top funders to prestigious posts at a rate greater than his predecessor. Missing from report: two former Chicagoans with the best jobs of all. Plus: startlingly low test numbers from the school system Jean-Claude Brizard most recently ran.

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06/14/11

More with Arnold Goldberg, MD: Men Act Out Sexually... and Women Shop?

A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst talks about how narcissistic behavior disorder frequently expresses itself through shopping in women, and sex in men.

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06/10/11

What Were They Thinking? Chicago Psychoanalyst Arnold Goldberg on Anthony Weiner and Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Arnold Goldberg, a professor of psychiatry at Rush, discusses narcissistic personalities, the reality ego, and how Huma Abedin is Weiner's "narcissistic object choice."

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06/07/11

Vice President Mitch Daniels?

A conversation with his wife, Cheri, about whether he'd accept the nomination... and about the similarly grueling life choice of being a Cubs fan.

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06/02/11

Blago On the Hunt for Osama?

Did Rod Blagojevich seriously think he could track down the al-Qaeda mastermind? It's not as farfetched as it sounds: it wouldn't have been the first time the former governor had come face to face with a notorious villain on the world stage.

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06/01/11

Rich Daley Joins His Best Buddy at Chicago Law Firm

The former mayor joins Katten Muchin Rosenman, making him colleagues with "the ultimate Daley insider": 64-year-old partner and rainmaker Terry Newman.

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05/31/11

Q & A: Joseph Epstein

One of my favorite writers answers questions about politicians, hypocrisy and himself.

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05/23/11

Blagojevich Lawyer Sheldon Sorosky Answers (Sort Of) the Questions Everyone's Asking

After the prosecution rested its case in the Blagojevich retrial last week, I called Rod’s old friend and lawyer Sheldon Sorosky to ask him whom the defense was going to call as a witness today. Sorosky would not give me names, and he had not decided (as of last Friday) whether Blago would take the stand. But he dismissed rumors that Blago would be delivering...

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05/18/11

Gery Chico to Run for Office Again?

After Election Day, Gery Chico—who fell short of a runoff with Rahm Emanuel—stayed out of the spotlight for a while. The former Daley chief of staff, who once ran Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District, was the only opponent who had even a chance of beating Emanuel in this year’s race for mayor. Here, some highlights from our telephone conversation Tuesday, his first one-on-one interview with...

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