Meet award-winning journalist Lara Logan, probable replacement for faltering Katie Couric as top newswoman, and top news reporter, at the CBS network. And it can't come a minute too soon for me. No more namby-pamby coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And no more more embarrassingly softcore girly questions of presidential candidates and the like. ("Someone told me your nickname in school was 'Miss Frigidaire' — is that true?" For more Couric gems of gaffery, see TV Guide's Couric Drops the Ball with Clinton .) In contrast, 37-year-old Logan, who's been reporting from war zones and troubled areas for 17 years, has the hustle of an impassioned, tenacious foreign correspondent, and the fierce heart of an outspoken activist, particularly of the Iraq War. On June 25, 2008, Lara Logan was named to the highly prestigious...
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