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There is no more sacred room for military officers than 2E924 of the Pentagon, a windowless and secure vault where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet regularly to wrestle with classified matters. Its more common name is “the Tank.” The Tank resembles a small corporate boardroom, with a gleaming golden oak table, leather swivel armchairs and other mid-century stylings. Inside its walls, flag officers observe a reverence and decorum for the wrenching decisions that have been made there. Hanging prominently on one of the walls is The Peacemakers, a painting that depicts an 1865 Civil War strategy session with President...

The conservative ladies do GothamSuzanne Fields (archive) May 19, 2003 | Print | SendNot so long ago, the New York editors and publishers of books regarded the "conservative woman" as an oxymoron. They shared the sensibility of radical feminists who once called Kay Bailey Hutchinson, the Republican senator from Texas, "a female impersonator." Women writers and women readers were liberal or they didn't exist.A decade ago, I wrote a book proposal with the title, "Women Without Men," examining the sad effects of feminism, among them that radical feminism had deprived a lot of women of men. A senior male editor...