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            <title><![CDATA[David Mamet's Right Turn]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One of America's great playwrights will shock his fans with a new book that attacks liberals with rants ripped from conservative talk radio. Ben Crair on David Mamet's dismaying willingness to become a sacrificial lamb.
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            <title><![CDATA[Facebook After FarmVille]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Sid Meier is one of the most beloved computer game designers of all time. But will fans play his new Civilization for Facebook? 
In 1938, less than 20 years before the first videogames, the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga presented his theory of the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Sayles Declares His Independence]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[He's the director of some of America's finest independent films, but some critics say his "true calling" is as a writer. Does his new novel, A Moment in the Sun, prove them right?
John Sayles has directed films for over 30 years, but some critics...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pat Lykos: Texas' Capital Punishment Avenger]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Harris County was once the nation's execution capital, but now its crusading Republican D.A. is setting innocent prisoners free. Ben Crair on the woman who's turning around Houston.
Change was the message of the 2008 election, but you wouldn't have...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The War on Cats: Jonathan Franzen and Bird-Lovers Fight Back]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With birds more admired than ever in pop culture, will their top predators be driven indoors? Ben Crair on how a new study and Jonathan Franzen have spurred a feline backlash.
To the list of recent upheavals, let's add a new entry: The tide is finally...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brenda Brathwaite: Holocaust Game Designer]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An Israeli programmer was recently criticized for his videogame about the Holocaust. But it's not the first time that a game has tackled one of the gaming industry's few taboos, as Ben Crair reports.
These days, videogames are generally judged by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Facebook Gaming Revolution]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Videogame designers, including industry pioneers, are betting on Facebook as the next gaming platform. With 500 million users, this could mean big money. 
The wildly popular videogames Doom and Quake have been accused of everything from preaching...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enough With the Boston Movies!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[David O. Russell's The Fighter is an excellent film, but it's yet another slog back to Beantown-a cinematic backdrop we've been enduring since Matt and Ben arrived. Ben Crair on the movies' torturous infatuation with Southie.
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            <title><![CDATA[Twitter Killed Media Criticism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Twitter's 140-character blasts aren't bringing down the newspapers. They're just turning journalists into sniggering cheap-shot artists. 
Ever since reporters started using Twitter, an old guard of newspaper hands has complained that the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Executed Like a Dog]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Oklahoma has a scandalous plan for executing inmates-with a drug used on animals. Ben Crair on why the way we put our pets to sleep is more humane than most lethal injections. 
News broke this week that the state of Oklahoma wanted to use a new drug...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stephen Colbert of New Media]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alex Blagg, the demented genius behind the site BajillionHits, is having a ball playing a parody of an Internet guru. Ben Crair talks to him about making a mockery of New Media consultants.
Alex Blagg has always been a comedian, but when he unveiled...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Death Serum Mystery]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[States were running out of a key chemical used in lethal injections. Suddenly, several found some. Ben Crair reports on where they're getting the drug-and whether it's being handled illegally.
On Thursday, Donald Ray Wackerly II ate a stuffed-crust...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Witches Blast O'Donnell]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Picnics on top of altars? Wiccans say they don't have them-and they don't like O'Donnell spreading bunk. Ben Crair reports on the comments that may cost her the pagan vote.
"Witchcraft" video showing Delaware Tea Party sensation Christine O'Donnell...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Democrats Can Win the House]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Deep in red state country, the last Democratic optimist has a model that shows Democrats keeping a slim majority. Ben Crair on how the president can help pull it off.
Two months after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let slip that Republicans...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hunting the 'American Taliban']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his new book, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas offers a liberal's attempt at a conservative bestseller-complete with savage dismissals, unfounded assumptions, and a lack of coherent argument about the opposing side, argues Ben Crair. It would make...]]></description>
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