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    Like Liza, I am not a huge fan of the b-word; how about we send Cindy to that boy's house? Tina Fey's "Bitch is the New Black" joke about how it takes women mean as nuns to get things done is  funny—as was Hillary, in her good-natured appearance on this week's SNL. I know from ass-kicking nuns, though, and some of them were (and are, of course) happy, funny people, while others were too mad to function and so did things like spend an hour yelling at a seventh-grader for having a hickey on her neck, or berating that nice Mrs. Tennis until she put her head down on the desk and cried. Not that this wasn't understandable, in a way: These unsalaried women carried the church, did all of its scutwork, and waited on and deferred to Father, right or wrong, without receiving so much as a pension in return, and very few thank-you notes. But, no joke, the result was not always competence in the classroom.  
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