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...Raised in Castro Valley, Calif., Rachel Anne Maddow took a bachelor's degree in public policy at Stanford, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where she earned a doctorate in political science. Settling in western Massachusetts, she worked as an activist for prisoners with HIV and AIDS, and as a "yard boy." That's how she met Susan Mikula, an artist who has been her partner for the past eight years. On a dare, Maddow auditioned as an on-air personality for an Amherst radio station and got the job. She served as morning host on Northampton's WRSI...
...towns. Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's democratic leader (as Brzezinski calls him) - whose police officers were using force on nonviolent protesters just last November - was goaded by the U.S. and NATO into waking up the Russian bear. It looks as if Georgia will now pay the price. Armen Hovhanesyan, Westwood, Calif...
...thousands of voting machines remain broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, LONG BEACH, CALIF...
...fighting the noise; you can win by embracing the sound. Simply set your breathing rhythm to the rhythm of the snore, and the sound becomes a sleep aid. Now I like it when my colleague goes to sleep first because I fall asleep faster. Colin Dangaard, MALIBU, CALIF...
...chrome grille and 14-m.p.g. (17 L/100 km) fuel consumption epitomized American extravagance. General Motors bought the marketing rights in 1999 and rolled out new models--the H2 and H3--in the face of predictable outrage from environmentalists: one zealot set fire to a Hummer dealership in West Covina, Calif...