Two Tough Cookies
By MAUREEN DOWD THE NY TIMES

He sets the fashion in politics. She sets the politics in fashion.

He worries about a short winter war and ferreting out rogues. She worries about short spring hemlines and deciding what's in vogue.

He is W. She reads W.

George Bush and Anna Wintour rule over very different universes. He's the leader of the free world. She's the queen of designer freebies. He's in charge of nukes. She's known as Nuclear Wintour.

He sees things in black and white. She sees a kaleidoscope of pastels. He summits with Berlusconi, Putin and Jiang Zemin. She summits with Versace, Prada and Jimmy Choo.

On the surface, it would seem that the chilly, driven Brit in stilettos who dictates how we look would have nothing in common with the cocky, laid-back Texan in cowboy boots who dictates how we live.

Yet the 56-year-old commander in chief and the 53-year-old editrix of Vogue have been thrown together — victims of a new literary trend known as Boss Betrayal (Read more (free regi. needed)