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            <title><![CDATA[My Martha's Vineyard Close Encounter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama's holiday ends today, longtime summer resident Patricia Williams documents the upheaval his visit-and Sen. Kennedy's death-brought to the Vineyard.
Sunday, August 23
Till now, it has been a quiet summer on Martha's Vineyard-fewer tourists...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama and the Black Elite]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the first family departs for Martha's Vineyard, Patricia Williams says the trip illuminates their delicate relationship with the black upper class-a clubby world of debutantes and BMWs. 
When President Barack Obama appointed Valerie Jarrett as his...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Persistent Pioneer]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Obama's powerhouse Supreme Court pick will be confirmed, The Daily Beast's Patricia J. Williams writes. But that doesn't mean the battle over Sotomayor's "bullying" temperament and breadth of experience won't be bruising.
Plus, more Daily Beast...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 May 2009 23:35:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Looming Backlash]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama's first 100 days may have been a success, but the forces gathering against him are only gaining steam. 
The first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency have been as flawless as any transition of such complexity could ever be.  He's a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:18:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lucky Number 44]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Watching the Obama inaugural from Upper Manhattan.
I was on the move all morning. I left Omaha at five o'clock in the morning, arrived in Minneapolis at six-thirty, got to Manhattan at ten-thirty, drove across 125th Street at eleven, dumped my...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:28:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tripping on Obama's Coattails]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the nation's first female Solicitor General breaks a 139-year-old tradition and doesn't wear a morning coat, can she still do her job with style?
Of the details one misses with no television coverage of the Supreme Court, surely the quaintest is...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:11:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grandma-in-Chief]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, moves to Washington, she'll help redefine the notion of the 'all-American' family.
Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's 71-year-old mother, is moving to the White House to help make the transition smoother...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:52:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Obama Isn't America's First Black President]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new debate is brewing over whether Barack Obama is America's first "black" president, or America's first "biracial" president. The Daily Beast's Patricia J. Williams on why the discussion is ridiculous.
It was surely meant as a wry aside when,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:40:41 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grandma's Election Night Recipes with a Dash of Opinion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From soup to nuts: Grandma's election night repast.
Premier Plat: La Soupe 
1. Throw a hambone into a bucket of water and bring to a boil.
2a.  If John McCain wins:
Add one large stone.
Ask your immediate neighbors to bring over a carrot or a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:15:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thandie Nails Condi]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thandie Newton's scene-stealing turn as Condoleezza Rice in Oliver Stone's W, reveals her as both an automaton and something more complex.
For my money, the most interesting portrayal in W. is that of Condoleezza Rice, as played by Thandie Newton. On...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:49:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Politics of Michelle Obama's Hair]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why she's so much cooler than Hillary and Condi.
Sometimes there's a difference between beauty and beauty queen.  And last night, on The Daily Show, Michelle Obama emerged to show us just where that line might be.  Unfailingly generous in her...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:07:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama addresses the 100th convention of the NAACP on Thursday, I would recommend reading The Souls of Black of Folk, written by W.E.B. Du Bois, the founder of the association. It is as fresh and contemporary and enduring a classic as anything...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:47:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Blog]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/600///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Blackstone Weekly is definitely what cyberspace does best: It allows quirky, wonderful, original thinkers the freedom to flourish, to publish. The muse behind this site is Jessie Allen, a performance artist-turned-lawyer who until recently worked for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:47:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Website]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Although relatively new on the scene, PollTrack offers some of the savviest electoral analysis around. Its political director is Maurice Berger, an art curator for institutions ranging from the Whitney Museum of American Art to the New School's Vera...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:53:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Website]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Racism is Over is a new faux blog authored by damali ayo, the Oregon-based performance artist who created the hilarious site Rent-a-Negro.com, as in: "What can you give the person who has everything?  Give them a new black friend!" Ayo's new site sends...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:51:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer, by&nbsp;David Kairys. Kairys, a professor of law at Temple University, is one of the best known civil rights lawyers in the Philadelphia area. As a law professor, he is internationally known for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:00:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Newspaper Article]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A friend in South Africa told me that after Obama was elected, people poured into  the streets and danced the toi-toi for twenty-seven hours. I read in the Times (South Africa) that the following  weekend, more than a million and a half people...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:12:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'd like to recommend two recent and wonderful studies of the life of Ida B. Wells: Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (out February 2009)...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:18:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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