Not all party favors lift your spirits. I was at a benefit dinner for a private school last month, and among the goodies in my take-home bag was a ruler, innocuous enough at first glance. But on the obverse of the strip of plastic were dozens of smaller-than-postage-stamp-sized photos, all of men. I actually stared at these pictures for several seconds, puzzled, when I saw the caption: “Presidents of Our Country.” And not a single woman!