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SUSAN PATTON, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively — that elite universities are about connecting more than learning, that the social world matters far more than the classroom to undergraduates, and that rather than an...

As we all know by now, Tay-ray-za Heinz Kerry this week committed her ``real job'' Laura Bush blooper. ``I don't know that (Laura's) ever had a real job.'' Thus did zany Tay-ray-za, almost Silberesque in her ability to put foot in mouth, simultaneously annoy teachers and librarians (Laura's first two real jobs) and full-time homemakers (her third). ``Blowsy hair, brassy mouth and bossy boots.'' So sniffed the conservative Washington Times of Heinz Kerry, who may forget she owes her position entirely to her marriages. Or maybe we just forget she's 66. Who else but an older woman would've said, in...