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            <title><![CDATA[Russia's Olympic Choke Job]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Russian Olympic machine broke down in Vancouver, leaving Moscow in a state of despair. Michael Idov on the demise of a sporting superpower. 
I'm writing this from a land defeated, angry, hurt, questioning its very self, and ready to erupt in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Your Move, Mr. Putin]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Obama's decision to drop the planned missile shield in Eastern Europe is hardly a bow to the Kremlin-the program will continue on a larger scale. The real question, says Michael Idov, concerns Putin's side of the bargain.
President Obama has chucked...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Russia Problem]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow for a nuclear arms deal, he faces the challenge of winning over an unimpressed Russian public.
I'll never forget how jazzed my Moscow friends were last March, on the eve of Russia's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Real-life accounts of WWII spy games tend to obviate the need for fiction, especially in the hands of Ben Macintyre. I've been reading his Agent Zigzag and the followup, Operation Mincemeat, that will come out in May. (It involves Brits floating a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - TV]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm just finishing up the second season of Breaking Bad and it's absolutely everything a great TV show should be. Where series like Mad Men or The Sopranos are so brilliant they chafe against the edges of the format,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I've spent the last couple of weeks memorizing every note and word on 21st Century Man, a new album by Luke Haines. Haines is, let's not mince words here, Britain's finest songwriter. This record riffs on the notion of living in exile-you know, that...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As we're treated to yet another batch of recession-lifestyle pieces in the press, and trying to reconcile Kurt Andersen's supposed "Reset" of the American psyche with the continuing bacchanal of bonuses (witness at least two new restaurants in...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[With a school of Russian subs cavorting off the Atlantic coast, we're once again reduced to puzzling over exactly what is Moscow up to. The best-and half-accidental-encapsulation of Russia's bipolar love-loathing of the West is a satirical 1920s novel...]]></description>
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