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ANCHOR: I see you’re standing next to one of the foot-soldiers of the protest movement, actually the Generalissimo herself, Martha Burk...
...Good question. I don’t know. Oprah? Martha Stewart, after she gets out of prison? Whoever it is will be rich, privileged and probably a snob...
...Well, Augusta National, the private club associated with the Masters tournament, is a men’s-only club, and Martha Burk, the president of NCWO, doesn’t like that. Last year she sent a letter to Augusta president Hootie Johnson asking him to change the policy, and he basically told her to shove off. Since then, the issue has taken on a life...
...Martha arranged the halved, cored pears on their pastry crust (“This will puff up all around the pears and turn a beautiful golden-brown,”) I was haunted by the memory of those morning show anchors. The immediacy of the war hadn’t fazed them. Sounding chipper and grave by turns, they weaved the war in Iraq into Americans’ everyday lives as coolly as though reports on troop movements had always followed the weather forecast. Although I had been reading about the war in the newspaper and on the Internet, although...
...Martha withdrew the pear tart from the oven, I remembered a pair of women, the wives of men serving in Iraq, whom one of the television news programs had interviewed. The first woman said that she watched television news all day in the hope of hearing some news of her husband; if something happened to him, she said, she’d want to know right away. The second woman, cradling a days-old baby her husband hadn’t yet seen, said that she never watched television: it made the war too real...