About Martha Coakley

January 20, 2010 by Diane Vacca

Attention, all candidates and wannabees: Learn a valuable lesson from Martha Coakley.
If you want to win, don’t take anything for granted. Fight as if your political life depends on it, [...]

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Journalist Flouts Beijing, Part 2: “She’s got blood on her blade and her clothing smells of gunpowder”

December 15, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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“She’s got blood on her blade, and her clothing smells of gunpowder,” wrote Chinese blogger Hecaitou after hearing of Hu Shuli’s resignation as editor of Caijing, China’s most important business [...]

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Seasoned Journo Flouts Beijing, Speaks Truth to New Financial/ Old Political Powers

December 14, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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The once-bustling newsroom of Caijing, China’s premier business news publication, fell silent last month, when the star editor walked out followed by the editorial staff, who resigned en masse. Disagreements [...]

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Gay Culverhouse, a Grandmother Who Speaks Truth to NFL Power

November 10, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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Instantly noticeable among the dark suits at the House Judiciary Committee hearing two weeks ago, Gay Culverhouse stood out in her purple dress, but even more for what she said. [...]

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Diane Vacca On the Shriver Report: Now that We Are the Labor Force, How About Some Respect?

October 20, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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Eager to see what the Shriver Report has to say about women over 50, I paged through my electronic copy, wishing in my over-50 way that I had physical pages [...]

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Labor Day’s ambivalent spark

September 6, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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Labor Day is a bittersweet time: Janus-like, the end of summer and the start of the academic year have me looking forward and back at the same time.
I don’t [...]

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Why Justice Sotomayor Made me Cry

August 9, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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I really can’t explain why, but my eyes welled up as I watched Sonia Sotomayor take the Judicial Oath on Saturday to become the 111th Justice of the Supreme Court, [...]

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MTA’s Helena Williams Moves Eight Million a Day and Still Cooks Sunday Pasta

July 8, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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Very little media fanfare greeted the May appointment of Helena Williams as interim CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which moves millions of people a day on dozens of [...]

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Sotomayor Buzz, Week Two: Media Sexism Times Ten

June 2, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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Diane Vacca on sexism and Sotomayor: It’s no surprise that Sotomayor is being assailed. What is surprising— although at this point, I suppose it shouldn’t be— is that criticism is levied without any regard for actual fact.

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When Mother’s Day Brings Only Questions

May 6, 2009 by Diane Vacca

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I didn’t like my mother.
I don’t remember ever feeling close to her, and I was always convinced that she had no idea who I really was, what I believed, what [...]

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