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Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact tha...

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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one ...

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(...

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I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksan...

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they dese...

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Maureen Dowd

Columnist

Born: 1952-01-14

Died: N/A

Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a journalist and essayist who is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.More