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This was not a spindly 24-year-old Yalie gliding through Old World Munich. This was a middle-aged woman hauling her flab around the District of Columbia.
I can't help but think of how insulted Jonathon Franzen was when Oprah picked him to be her book club selection a few years ago. Why is it that whenever Oprah breaks into a traditionally male, make that white male dominated field, she gets insulted? She's destroying the purity of the field. Give a smart, populist, rich, black, middle aged woman a break. The Oprah Line is no small potatoes, she worked hard for it, and if she's the inspiration some people need to pull on their gel-soled shoes and hit the trail every morning, then good for her. Judging from all available statistics, America needs more (not fewer) non-professional athletes....and non-professional readers too, for that matter....
