From the website of Free Library, at
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436


"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama, for example.
The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in 2002 to run "programs
for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff
diversity, and minority contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary
from $120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a U.S.
senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S. senator? He sure
had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way
to network, Michelle! But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital
says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did
was vital enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one explanation:
Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."