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            <title><![CDATA[The Bizarre Case Against Gay Marriage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Prop 8 case draws to a close in California, lawyers defending the gay- marriage ban offer a scary argument: anyone who isn't marrying to have kids is out of bounds. 
The gay-marriage trial, which just closed in San Francisco, scared me to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gay Marriage's Great Hope]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The gay-marriage case now unfolding in a San Francisco courtroom may be the most important battle between tradition and modernity since the Scopes trial.
On the second day of the gay marriage trial, Harvard historian Nancy Cott testified that the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Gay Marriage Fiasco]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New Jersey is the latest state to bail on same-sex marriage. Linda Hirshman on how the gay community's strategy is failing and why they're running out of options.
Facing certain failure, the sponsors of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage pulled it...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ladies Night on Capitol Hill]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Women hold the balance of power in the Senate health-care debate. But Linda Hirshman argues their influence is shakier than it seems.
Word from the Senate is that negotiations over health-care reform are going hot and heavy... in the Ladies Room.  Two...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Time to End Pantsuit-Gate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With viewers tuned into Palin's much-anticipated Oprah interview, Linda Hirshman explains the sexist double-standard at work over the fuss about the clothes the RNC bought her. Plus, view our gallery of Palin's fashion.
On Monday, October 20, 2008,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Michelle Is Sliding]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the first lady wades into the health-care debate, she's grappling with an 11-point drop in the polls. Linda Hirshman on why being first lady is harder than ever. 
Party giver Michelle Obama snagged the White House East Room for her soiree this...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Get Gay Marriage Off the Ballot]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The Maine gay-marriage initiative went down to defeat Tuesday. But the real tragedy is that it should never have been put to a vote in the first place.
I had hoped gay marriage would win out in Maine.  I even gave them a little money (thank you to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the GOP Loses Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dede Scozzafava's exit from a New York House race is just the latest example of the new Republican Party's hostility to pro-choice women. Linda Hirshman on why Sarah Palin is a club of one.
Former Republican congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava...]]></description>
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