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>> alexandra stanley is very close to maureen and is someone i know going back to college days. and our lead brilliant book critic. >> rose: tell me about it, what it means and how you reinforce each other. $well, i think thehing... >> rose: is it life supportive? >> it's very supportive but mainly it's journalistically supportive. i will talk to maureen about i want her take on the republican debate or jane will hear something. we're mainly talking about current events and what the cutting edge ideas are. >> rose: i mean, the obvious story en you almost lost your life when you were hit in front of the times and almost died and the cops said to you on the street... >> two inches higher and you'd be out of here. >> rose: and then maureen drops everything, comes every week to see you. >> they all did. >> rose: so that's what i'm talking about. you think of... do you know men at had the same kind of... >> well, not quite. and i think part of it is that we all started out in an era in journalism in the' 80s where there weren't that many female repoers >> but you stuck together for a