The Petraeus affair: It’s ’Mean Girls’ for people with jobs
And not so much about the personal indiscretions of public figures
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Emma Teitel
Emma Teitel is a National Magazine Award-winning columnist who writes frequently about women’s issues and popular culture. She gets a lot of hate mail, mostly from Burnaby, British Columbia.
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