Turning Brass Into Gold

Maureen Dowd does if nothing else speak her mind. In this case, probably not in typical feminist party line, but she's got enough chits collected where she can stray from time to time without losing her club card. Article here. As always with the NYT, use Google to get around the login box. The URL is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/opinion/dowd-turning-brass-into-gold.html

Excerpt:

'As The Times’s Scott Shane writes: “The major players have hired high-profile, high-priced representatives to manage the fallout, watch for legal trouble, police the press and massage damaged reputations.”

And, no doubt, pave the way for future book deals, cushy jobs and TV apologias in honeyed light with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters.

The tears and lip gloss started flowing Tuesday at a press conference at the Ritz-Carlton here featuring a distraught twin, a befuddled press corps and Gloria Allred, the feminist avenger last seen tormenting Herman Cain over sexual harassment charges.
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The military might want to have its future stars read Jane Austen as well as Grant and Rommel. “Pride and Prejudice” is full of warnings about the dangers of young ladies with exuberant, flirtatious, “unguarded and imprudent” manners visiting military regiments and preening in “all the glories of the camp.”'