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  ... And She's So Hot!

  Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:59 PM | By E.J. Graff

  Are we allowed to say that here? Watching Rachel Maddow sets my heart aflutter. And not just me, apparently! I hear that she attracts across almost all persuasions--straight and gay, women and men. Especially when she's allowed to appear, as in the photo below, without that silly lip gloss and diminishing eye shadow.

  Rachel: Call me any time, day or night.

  To be on the show, of course. I'm a smart talker. And I know lotsa stuff.

About E.J. Graff

• E.J. Graff is senior researcher at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she directs the Gender & Justice Project. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. As a journalist and author, her work has appeared in such venues as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Good Housekeeping, The Nation, The New Republic, and in more than a dozen anthologies. She collaborated on former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy's book Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--and What To Do About It (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Her first book, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, has been widely cited in legal journals, reprinted for academic use, entered as courtroom exhibits, and quoted by government policymaking bodies.

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