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            <title><![CDATA[Are Jews Really Liberal?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In time for the High Holidays, Daphne Merkin examines the hot air rhetoric in Norman Podhoretz's new polemic, Why Are Jews Liberal?, and comes away unconvinced.
The first magazine I ever wrote for, straight out of Barnard, was Commentary, sponsored by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sex Scandal for the History Books]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Masters and Johnson wrote the book on sex, and now a definitive biography of the duo reveals everything you wanted to know-and more- about their secret personal affair.
There is something about the scientific study of sexual behavior-which goes by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bright Nights, Shady City]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors-plus excerpts from the latest books. 
Steve Gaines' Fool's Paradise delivers a full diet of South Beach lore and other Miami vices.
There's this to be said for wretched excess: Like...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Updike's Final Chapter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never at rest. But why did readers seem to fall out of love with America's everyman of letters?
Of few writers can it be said that they...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:50:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Brotherhood of Money]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Men like Bernie Madoff understand wealth. They understand power. And they prefer to keep women away from both.
The first I heard of Bernie Madoff or the hedge funds involved (including my brother's) was via a voicemail I received early on the Saturday...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Men on the Dais]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An excerpt from Daphne Merkin's novel, Enchantment.
In a taxi, sitting next to my father, I cross my legs. I am accompanying him to one of his hundreds of dinners, a fund raiser for a politician who furthers Jewish causes. There is a run in my...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Sexism Revival]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The treatment of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin exposes a streak of misogyny that runs deep in American culture.
Now that the election is over and racism is ostensibly down for the count,  has sexism gotten a new dispensation? Has the "unlikability"...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:09:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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