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That’s what Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal is asked. “I’m answering this because it’s a slow, hanging ball,” he writes. “I would be the last person alive to suggest that Maureen Dowd and Gail Collins are not serious columnists. They are indeed, very serious.”
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