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Some Women Are Born to Be Blue

David Baldacci’s Newest Thriller Parodies Police, Mayor

By Emily Yehle
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 10, 2009, Midnight

Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s rise to power seems ripped from a book: Pregnant at 14, she dropped out of high school, got married (and soon divorced) and put herself through college while becoming an officer.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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