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...Boston Globe story that ran in February 1990, John Owens, Obama’s former co-worker from Chicago, was quoted in a telephone interview: “This guy sounds like he’s president of the country already,” Owens said of Obama. “I’ve never met anyone who could leave that impression after only five minutes...
...turned down opportunities to clerk for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D. C. circuit to work in civil rights law back in Chicago...
...very clear that he wanted to return to the issues he had handled as a community organizer in Chicago,” she wrote in an e-mail...
After graduating from HLS, Obama pursued opportunities both in the public and academic sectors. He worked as a civil rights lawyer in Chicago, fighting against employment and housing discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation with a small firm...
...also landed a post at the University of Chicago Law School, although he did not pursue a professorship, choosing to focus instead on politics—his first love...