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Ex-Clinton mentor: Hillary not 'female' enough

Scholar and philosopher Jean Houston reflects on where the first viable woman presidential candidate may have gone wrong.

Recently, as New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned in Eugene, her onetime friend and mentor Jean Houston was at home in her double geodesic dome, a style that is not out of place here in this town of theater lovers and spiritual seekers.

"I could have probably gone down to see her, and she would have hugged me and it would have been nice," said Houston, as she sat on a sofa surrounded...

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