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These women attained success the
old fashioned way. They made it work. Both Dowd and Miller won
Pulitzer Prizes while at the NYT. |
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Judith Miller has
had a long personal relationship with NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger. The
two have known each other since she joined Arthur as a reporter in
the NYT Washington bureau in 1977. |
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Maureen Dowd has dated a few male
contacts including
Howell Raines before
he was NYT editor. |
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Recently both women have had their
successes shaken and they have been at odds with each other. |
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As the potency of the NYT and its
masthead's male powers have faltered, coincidentally so have the
careers of these successful women. |
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What a way to run a life. What a
way to run a business like the New York Times. What a way to get ahead at the New York
Times. What a way to lose the respect and exalted status that the New York Times earned
over decades and lost over a few very pretty faces. |
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Women may debate how slick Maureen Dowd
and Judith Miller were to use the old fashioned approach to success
in executing their career moves. And women may debate Hillary Rodham's
variation on that old fashioned success approach. Ms. Rodham
surrendered in marriage to her puller-upper star, Bill Clinton.
Today everyone knows how much
that approach cost her. |
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Both old fashioned approaches can
be costly and require sacrificing happiness and freedoms. And both
old fashioned approaches can fail to produce meaningful results.
Consider those ladies who hitch their lives to stars that fizzle.
They fail to get carried to plateaus high enough to provide
jumping-off levels to justify the years invested. Those ladies are
stuck. They must give up or try a new man. But strong puller-upper
male stars can be hard to find at midlife, especially when feminine
aspects are starting to sag. |
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Women today should consider
utilizing the fruits of the women's movement. That movement started
in mid-nineteenth century United States, organized and gained power
in 1919, and sprang into high power in the
let's-make-everything-fair era born during the 1960s. Genuinely
talented women should be able to realize big gains using the
mandated equality and affirmative action legislation, dogma, and
fear produced by the women's movement over the last decades. Today
any woman of reasonable talent has no need to consider using the old
fashioned approach to success. Today reasonably talented women can
attain success using the new fangled approach: Skillful hard work. |
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