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[5 Feb 2008 | No Comment | 236 views]

I recently attended a really terrific and very interesting luncheon. The conversation was fresh and informed (we were talking politics, of course) and the women were smart and funny. Yet, after the coffee, but well before anyone else seemed ready to get up, I was grumbling to myself: “I gotta get out of here! It’s enough already.” I was reminded of the anecdote told by Phil Donahue about Bella Abzug, a truly impatient woman. They were at a dinner honoring a group of Nobel Laureates, and as each one got …