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            <title><![CDATA[Doctors in the Death Chamber?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A badly botched lethal injection has put a slew of capital punishment cases on hold. The Daily Beast's Ben Crair reports on how physicians could help make executions more humane.
On September 15, for only the second known time in American history, a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Polanski Could Help the Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Hollywood's rally around admitted rapist Roman Polanski has resurrected the limousine liberal, reminding much of middle America why they hate the left. 
It figures. On the eve of the Democratic Party's greatest triumph-when, after decades of pangs...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sex Advice from Cyrano]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Katherine Heigl's new movie, The Ugly Truth, shows how Cyrano de Bergerac, the poetic romantic hero, has been turned into a lecherous player.
The balcony scene in Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is perhaps the most familiar in all of theater:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mark Sanford Is a Romantic Hero]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Don't stick the philandering South Carolina governor in the same lot with John Ensign, David Vitter, and other GOP scandal victims. When he flew to Argentina, Sanford was after something like real love. And what's so wrong with that?
The rituals of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Secret Code Words of the Sotomayor Confirmation Battle]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Supreme Court nominations require the media and politicians to develop their own delicate code words. Otherwise, you're liable to be accused of a "high-tech lynching." So what does it mean when someone calls Barack Obama nominee Sonia Sotomayor...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Republican Bestseller Machine]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck's new three-book deal shows that while conservatives wander the political wilderness, they continue to dominate book sales. As Ben Crair demonstrates, the hit parade stems from title and marketing formulas that are nothing short of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who's Afraid of Fake Memoirists?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
 Another memoirist-a baseball player-came under scrutiny this week. But don't listen to those who say we're living in an age of James Frey...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best of Bernie]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We searched the media to unearth the juiciest nuggets about the alleged Ponzi schemer-from the price of his manicures to the vanity plates on his accountant's car.
The Bernard Madoff scandal has so saturated the media that you may have missed some of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ronald Brownstein, Political Director, Atlantic Media 
All of my favorite moments in this campaign have offered me snapshots of the incredible level of engagement and commitment the race has inspired in an unprecedented number of Americans. The most...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Walter Shapiro, Washington Bureau Chief, Salon 
On caucus night at Precinct 69 in Des Moines, I knew that Obama had won the moment that I had to go to the third satellite parking lot because all the spaces were taken-30 minutes before it was scheduled...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michael Scherer, Washington Correspondent, Time: 
Back in September of 2007, I spent a couple days at a Republican retreat in an oversized Victorian dollhouse called the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Most of the Republican candidates came...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amy Sullivan, Nation Editor, Time: 
The night of the Iowa caucuses, before Obama arrived at the Hy-Vee Hall to give his victory speech, a local drum-and-step group entertained the waiting crowd in a cordoned-off area next to the press pen. The kids...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sam Stein, Political Reporter, The Huffington Post 
On May 31, 2008, I sat down at Harry's Pub in the Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C. I was utterly exhausted, having just spent the day covering the inherently exhilarating Democratic Rules and Bylaws...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Byron York, White House Correspondent, National Review 
I went to a McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia on October 18. It was nothing out of the ordinary, until afterward I came upon a guy who was ranting about media mistreatment of Joe the Plumber....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boys on the Bus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Perry Bacon Jr., National Reporter, The Washington Post 
I flew to New Hampshire the night of the Iowa caucuses on Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's plane, after he had won. We got into Manchester after 4 a.m. and I was pretty groggy as I walked into the...]]></description>
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