Susan Estrich
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Growing impatient for a real recoverySep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Good news. The folks in charge of such things announced that the recession is over. Actually, it's been over for some time. It officially ended in June 2009, according t...
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The difference between girls and boysSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - When I was in seventh grade, I was the only girl on the junior high math team. I wasn't the best, and I wasn't the worst. But the experience of standing out in such an o...
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Weighing free speech, safety of troopsSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Here's a really bad idea: Burn the Quran to send a message. Exactly what message is being sent is a matter of some debate. The 50-member "Dove World Outreach Center" and...
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Leaving home always works out somehowAug 26, 2010 11:00 pm - For the past two weeks, I've been traveling across the country interviewing law students who have applied for jobs at my law firm. I talk to young people from New York w...
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Winning still part of politicsAug 08, 2010 11:00 pm - "Are you really a Democrat?" someone wrote to me recently, after I wrote a column criticizing the president's decision to go on vacation in Martha's Vineyard while so ma...
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Does Obama get the country's current situation?Aug 04, 2010 11:00 pm - The conventional wisdom these days is that the best shot for Democrats heading into the November elections in marginal districts is for the president to raise money and ...
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Chelsea's wedding like so many othersAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - No, I wasn't invited. I shouldn't be. I'm a friend of her parents. They aren't getting married. She is. The rule that invited guests should have a personal relationship ...
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Family secretsJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - I must have been 12 years old when my mother took me aside to tell me she had been married to another man before my father. I was stunned, shocked and, yes, ashamed. In ...
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Experience has key role in politicsJun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Some years ago, the late New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire wrote a great column comparing politicians to plumbers. It was during one of ...
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Primary politicsMay 20, 2010 11:00 pm - The first rule of primary elections is that they are completely different from general elections. What it takes to win a primary is often exactly the opposite of what it...