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...photos of Sarah Palin here...
Time's Jay Newton Small interviewed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin by phone on Aug. 14, less than two weeks before her surprise selection as John McCain's running mate...
...Palin: I studied journalism in college and always had an interest in the newsroom, which was of course so often focused on politics and government. I studied sports reporting, and that's how I started off in journalism. But even earlier than that, my dad was an elementary school teacher, so often our dinner-table conversations were about current events and about those things that an elementary school teacher teaches students - much about government and much about our nation, and so I had ingrained in me an interest in our government, how things worked. And then from there I just...
...photos of Sarah Palin here...
...Sarah Palin will get the most media attention of her life today. But before the Alaska governor ever got into politics - and long before she was the GOP's freshly-minted Vice Presidential candidate - she was a TV reporter. A 1987 graduate of the University of Idaho, she covered Alaskan politics for Anchorage's NBC affiliate. Between 2004 and 2007, after getting into government, she wrote a series of op-eds for the Anchorage Daily News that offer clues about why Sen. McCain picked her in the first place - and what to expect now that she's entered the national...