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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Wins Heisman Trophy!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The Nobel is not the only award the president does not deserve. Mark Katz imagines the prizes yet to come.
As Barack Obama is busy drafting his acceptance speech he'll take to Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize, former Clinton speechwriter Mark Katz...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Beer Summit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama prepares to meet Skip Gates and Sgt. Crowley, presidential wit Mark Katz asks: What do their beers say about them? Plus, A GALLERY of pols and brews, and more in HUNGRY BEAST.
Usually, the beer drinking precedes the disorderly conduct...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Man Crush on JFK, Jr.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ On the tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, Mark Katz finally admits he was his mother's living John-John doll and recalls the day the two finally met. 
I don't remember much about that terrible day in November, as I was just a fetus at...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Farrah's Sexy Secret]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If you never decoded the secret message in Farrah Fawcett's pinup poster, it means you did not stare at it long enough.
PLUS: Photos, Video, and an Interview with Farrah
Being 13 years old is one of the worst things that ever happens to a person....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Speech to Make the World Stop]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It was Barack Obama's turn to marry this moment to his words. While McCain was at his most gracious, it was his audience who had the tin-ear.
Those who cross the thresholds of history are challenged to provide the words worthy of the moment for a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain's Comedy Comeback]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Can jokes accomplish what attack ads didn't? Bill Clinton's former humorist and speechwriter says the senator nailed it at the Al Smith dinner last night.
By all evidence, McCain's over-wound spin masters figured out something pretty important...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA['Return to the War Room' Reminded Me How I Learned to Beat Republicans]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Dukakis staffer turned Clinton humorist reviews the new documentary The Return of the War Room.
I never set foot in the vaunted Clinton Campaign War Room of 1992 but I take quiet pride in my small role in helping to create it. In 1988, I was a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[For This I Microwaved Popcorn?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The former Clinton speechwriter on the fine art of saying nothing on the eve of global crisis
Now I understand why Americans are in the habit of electing governors.&nbsp; Put two senators on the national stage and what you get is humdrum political...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:08:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the tradition of Adam Sandler's breakout hit "The Chanukah Song," here is an amusing 21st century take on this Festival of Lights that manages to place a contemporary stand-alone punch-line under the Chanukah bush:  "Bernie Madoff." In addition to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Film]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How did my TiVo know to record IFC's recent showing of Mountains of the Moon just a day before I came across the obituary of its legendary producer, Daniel Melnick? In deference to my DVR's omniscience, I sat down to watch one the most engrossing...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Fourth of July is the perfect time to put patriotism in your pocket with DECLARATION FOR iPHONE, a free iTunes "app" that engraves the Declaration of Independence onto your phone for easy reference, along with historical notes, brief bios of every...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Overbuzzed, you Buzzboard reader? That's the same frenetic condition most of us are in when called upon to write. Let me recommend some sensory deprivation software that has seen me through some pretty adrenalized deadlines. Write Room is a low-frills...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:53:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Video]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm not saying The Daily Show has gotten too big for its britches, I'm just saying it has britches.&nbsp; When do Jon Stewart's ceremonial riding trousers become evident? While watching the occasional-but-hilarious videos produced by the otherwise...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:57:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Blog]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One sign of a "perfect" comedic idea is that, once exposed to it, you can never see its target the same way again.&nbsp; Read this elaborately-constructed debate diagram of the workings of John McCain's would-be VP's brain and you will never watch her...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:34:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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