Word: vermonters
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...DIED. BOB KEESHAN, 76, who played the beloved children's show character Captain Kangaroo for 36 years on CBS-TV and public television; in Windsor, Vermont. Keeshan began acting in 1948 as the frenetic clown Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. Seven years later, at the age of 28, he debuted as the grandfatherly Captain Kangaroo, who was named for his multipocketed jacket. He taught subtle lessons in chats with characters like the animal-loving farmer Mr. Green Jeans, the carrot-craving Bunny Rabbit and the laconic Grandfather Clock. Keeshan, who didn't patronize his audience, lamented in 1993 that...
They battled frigid temperatures and fierce winds to campaign for Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., John F. Kerry, D-Mass., Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark and former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean...
...Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger. We have no model for Steinberg, about whom we know almost nothing except that she is Jewish and a doctor. While her husband has been staging one of the most remarkable insurgent presidential campaigns in history, she has continued to cure the sick back in Vermont, as if there were nothing more useful she could...
...modern era of presidential campaigning, no candidate's spouse has been so purposefully absent from the scene as Howard Dean's wife, an internist and mother of two in Vermont. Some laud her independence and nonpolitical bent, while others see these as a liability. The other candidates' wives have played more traditional roles in the campaigns. A look at how involved they have been. --By Nadia Mustafa...
...result, says Garrison Nelson, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont, is the potential for self-aggrandizement...