In this week’s Newsweek, feminist columnist Anna Quindlen rejoices in elaborate prose that the Miss America pageant is dying, and the new woman’s icons are Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton. But the admiration is mutual: in 1992, when Quindlen won the Pulitzer for her commentary in the New York Times, Couric welcomed her to NBC with exclamation: “So often I read [your] things and I think: ‘Yes!’ Now obviously you’re convincing me or reaffirming some of my beliefs.” Like this 1991 classic: “Sunday, the Super Bowl will be played in Tampa and so, inevitably, my thoughts turn to abortion.” Katie will fit CBS like a glove.

PS: In between columns, the Newsweek columnist raises money for Planned Parenthood because “The ghosts of Puritanism have a headlock on the spirit of progress.”