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" In our March issue, MC profiled Samantha Power, Barack Obama&amp;#039;s Pulitzer-winning Harvard professor of a foreign policy adviser, or, as we called her, &amp;quot;The Smartest Woman in America.&amp;quot; As the editor of the section (and a Clinton supporter), I&amp;#039;m chafing at that headline today.  Power was quoted in a Scottish paper \u2014 and subsequently every other news outlet on the planet \u2014 as calling Hillary a &amp;quot;monster&amp;quot; for her campaign&amp;#039;s attacks on Barack. Today, while the blogosphere debated whether the reporter should have published comments that were arguably off the record, the campaign announced Power&amp;#039;s resignation.   Those of us who are paid to choose our words carefully \u2014 be they politicians&amp;#039; advisers or the writers who entrap them \u2014 know that &amp;quot;monster&amp;quot; is about a hair away from &amp;quot;bitch.&amp;quot; It essentially means the recipient of the slur is ambitious, which in women remains a character flaw. Power&amp;#039;s comment lumps Hillary with Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest, Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, Judith Regan, Martha Stewart, and all the other shrill she-devils who dared to grow lady-balls and fight for their due. As Power herself has done \u2014 a young woman at an old university, teaching foreign affairs and government to people who will one day lead nations. She&amp;#039;s a rock star academic, a brilliant policy thinker, a girl who busted into the boys&amp;#039; club, and I admire her.  But for someone so smart, she can be really dumb. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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