News Mix: Drudge, Limbaugh Discover Aging; Women Who Changed the World; Attack of the Disney Princesses; Alice Walker’s Papers Go to Emory

Campaigning While Female: After a close-up of her face appeared on the Drudge Report, Hillary Clinton was found guilty of — horrors! — aging. Rebecca Traister deconstructs Rush Limbaugh’s feigned shock. More from Maureen Dowd.

While the media focused on Paris and Britney, a host of women were changing the world with their courage and ingenuity. The Guardian’s Kira Cochrane celebrates them, and commemorates those we lost, including Grace Paley and Anita Roddick.

The Women’s eNews series on women funding serious change continues with an essay by Julie Fisher, whose writes: "My recent commitment of $5 million to the Kingswood Girls Middle School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., represents the culmination of a journey that began when I started as a student there myself in 1959."

"Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are," writes Barbara Ehrenreich at The Nation. "Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them. The most
striking exception is Mulan, who dresses as a boy to fight in the army, but — like the other Princess of color, Pocahontas — she lacks full Princess status and does not warrant a line of tiaras and gowns.
Otherwise the Princesses have no ambitions and no marketable skills, although both Snow White and Cinderella are good at housecleaning."

The literary works of Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker are going to Emory University’s library.
"I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do: culture, community,
spirituality, scholarship and the blessings of ancestors who want each of us to find joy and happiness in this life, by doing the very best we can to be worthy of it," Walker said in a statement.

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