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During the Sept. 26 Presidential Debate, Senator John McCain vowed to continue fighting in Iraq, noting that he wore a bracelet given to him by the mother of a slain soldier--a woman who'd made him promise, he said, to "make sure [her] son's death was not in vain." Senator Barack Obama immediately responded that he had a bracelet too--given to him by a woman who begged him to "make sure another mother is not going through what I'm going through...
...Hired as an intern at The Boston Herald. Has said about her internship, "They didn't know what a college-educated black woman was and they didn't know how to treat...
...confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman - from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth - can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky...
...could embarrass us. History is not on Palin's side. Every time a woman gets a plum job, be she Hewlett-Packard's ex-boss, Carly Fiorina, or CBS's Katie Couric, there's always that whispery fear that people will think she got the job just because she's a woman. So if things don't go well - and a couple of YouTube clips have suggested that they're certainly not going well for Palin - women are the first to turn on her for making it harder for the rest of us to louse up at work...
...stars-and-stripes and G.O.P. elephants. Talk at the many social events around the conference was dominated by the contest. "I rather like Sarah Palin," confessed one immaculately coiffed Conservative dame, as she waited in the powder room queue. "How can you say that?" interjected her neighbor. "That Palin woman is simply terrifying...