Word: dowd
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...This matter is entirely a tangle of double standards. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published a book in 2005 entitled, “Are Men Necessary?”, in which she muses over whether or not women should bother making time for men in their lives at all. Though the book did receive some harsh criticism (and I imagine Dowd’s been on fewer dates since its publication), I somehow doubt a book entitled, “Are Women Necessary?”, would be the bestseller that Dowd’s book was. No, such...
...Maureen Dowd, on the other hand, says no. In her caustic Feb. 17 column in The New York Times, written after watching Oprah, Dowd muses whether more good vibrations could remedy the serial incompetence of the Bush administration...
...that wasn't enough to get Hillary's back up, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's interview with Geffen in the next morning's newspaper certainly was. Geffen, a big fundraiser for the Clintons in the past, called Obama "inspirational" and dismissed Hillary Clinton as "overproduced and overscripted." As for her husband, Geffen suggested that his bad-boy days are not behind him: "I don't think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person." And to top it off, he said this about the two of them...
...think it's to her advantage to put her knife-fighting skills on display. Former Vice President Al Gore has privately told friends that his familiarity with the Clintons' hardball campaign style is one of the reasons he would be leery of making a run against Hillary. Geffen told Dowd he expected a brutal primary because the Clinton "machine is going to be very unpleasant and unattractive and effective." But Obama showed, despite his official disdain for pugnacious politics, that he knows how to punch back when...
...Dowd's younger brother Craig was expected to enroll at Duke last fall on a lacrosse scholarship, but he turned it down and will enroll at Georgetown University this spring. "We didn't feel like we could send him to Duke with everything that was going on," Tricia Dowd, his mother, told a local newspaper. "We love Duke ... but we didn't know what the professors would...