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Strangely Enough, Politics May Just Be The One Realm In Which Having Kids Imposes No Penalty On Women. Kids Are Practically A Necessity. For Scientists, Or Supreme Court Justices, Or Chief Executives, Or The Woman Who Wants To Learn To Fly F-l8s Off An Aircraft Carrier, It Works Differently.

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An Interesting Thing About Book Groups, It Seems To Me, Is That There Is No Correlation Between A Brilliant Book And A Brilliant Discussion. The First Seems Sometimes Even To Undermine The Second.