Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996

The Second Oldest Profession

By Murray Kempton

The New York Times's Maureen Dowd was in Georgia on election night brightening up the night watch over Newt Gingrich's uneasiness. As is the usual case for communions with good girls and most especially with more than semidivine ones like Dowd, the talk drifted to the woes of woman as brought vividly back to mind by Benazir Bhutto's defrocking as Pakistani prime minister.



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