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Campbell Brown is winning fans in a rather unusual way: quitting. And admitting it's because she doesn't have enough fans, or viewers. More »
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Laura Bush, perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the current lame duck White House, confirmed today that she may be shopping a book proposal. "I've been talking to some publishers, but nothing has happened yet — just a few visits," she says. Bush is notoriously press shy. She has said in the past that she finds giving interviews "boring" and, according to Curtis Sittenfeld in Salon, must be prompted to discuss her own good works. In addition, Laura used to be a Democrat and has revealed in the past that she doesn't think Roe vs. Wade should be overturned. The L.A. Times' Meghan Daum says that even though it's what readers want to know, she doubts Laura's autobiography will be called How I Stopped Worrying About Abortion Rights, the Geneva Convention and Basic Grammar and Remained in Love With My Husband. So what will this intensely private lady actually be willing to put in writing? The conjecture, after the jump. More »
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"The scariest money mistake women can make (Hint: It's not shoes!)" sure sooounds like your average "Hey, it's O.K.…" Glamour enablement missive. (This month: Hey, it's O.K… to think about your eBay bid during sex!) But actually, "Welcome To My Mortgage Hell", penned by Meghan Daum, who knows a little bit about money mistakes, is interesting/depressing/important. Women, particularly single women, are addicted to acquiring real estate. "You use your home as a way to express who you are," says one lawyer and expert. Like shoes! But this is a newer development: until the 1970s single women were rarely allowed to buy homes without somehow proving the veracity of their intention to never have kids; today the rate of homeownership (or, you know, "ownership") among single women — single women who've been taking on half-million dollar double adjustable-rate crackpot mortgages with no down payment and that sort of thing — is twice that of single dudes. But why? More »
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