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Opinion | The improbability of Nancy Pelosi

March 25, 2020 | 8:24 PM GMT
Nancy Pelosi was raised to be holy, not speaker of the House. But the daughter of a Baltimore mayor eventually joined the family trade, running for Congress in her 40s after raising five children. Now, as she turns 80 on March 26, she is the most powerful woman in American history.
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