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Maureen Dowd -- the intrepid New York Times columnist and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her saucy and incisive commentary -- hit the bestseller list during the 2004 presidential campaign with Bushworld, a collection of her amp-ed up op-ed pieces. In her new book, Are Men Necessary?,the "Cobra" as she is known, delves into the continuing mysteries of a topic even more incendiary than presidential politics: sexual politics.