newsweek.com - 11/22/2008
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"Can you believe that sellout, Barack Obama ?" says Rachel Maddow , looking around the room. "Let's hit him from the left!" It's 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 5, and the six-foot-tall Maddow, wearing her trademark baggy 501 jeans and thick-soled sneakers, has just burst into her staff meeting in a small ...
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politico.com - 11/17/2008
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Arianna guest-hosts for Rachel Maddow -- DNC Chairman
Howard Dean is 60 today -- Third Way out
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... by Roger Erickson for the Out 100 this year, the magazine's tally of the 100 gay people who made the biggest impact in America in 2008. From Julia Baird's profile in Newsweek: ...
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