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It Runs in the Family
A guide to some of the most successful sets of siblings alive. \r\r\r\rIn one of his first acts after being elected president, Barack Obama announced that Rahm Emanuel, a congressman from Illinois, would be his chief of staff. Political followers remembered Rahm as a player in the Clinton Whitehouse. Most..\n
02.15.09
A guide to some of the most successful sets of siblings alive.
THE NEGROPONTES:It's hard to imagine how colorful dinnertime must have be at the Negroponte house growing up. Nicholas is the founder of the Media Lab, that mad scientist's warren of experimentation at MIT, but is best known as the founder of One Laptop Per Child, which is using the innovative XO laptop to revolutionize education in the developing world. His brother,Michael John, a leading voice in conservative foreign policy circles, must chuckle at Nicholas' idealism. Rising through the ranks of the U.S. foreign service, John eventually became ambassador to Honduras (subsequent reports indicate that he was aware of serious human rights violations by that country's U.S.-backed military regime, but did nothing to stop or draw attention to them). Next, he became our ambassador to the U.N., then to Iraq. Most recently, he served as the inaugural Director of National Intelligence, before returning to the State Department near the end of Bush's second term.
THE NEGROPONTES:It's hard to imagine how colorful dinnertime must have be at the Negroponte house growing up. Nicholas is the founder of the Media Lab, that mad scientist's warren of experimentation at MIT, but is best known as the founder of One Laptop Per Child, which is using the innovative XO laptop to revolutionize education in the developing world. His brother,