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Obama has to touch many bases in picking 15 for cabinet

Now that he's won the presidency, Barack Obama faces a "Rubik's Cube-type" task in forming a cabinet that can both run the federal bureaucracy and satisfy the political, geographic and ethnic interests vying for representation on it, experts said yesterday.

The 15-member cabinet will represent the public face of Obama's executive branch, and political experts said his prominent early supporters...

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