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            <description><![CDATA[For the vast middle of this country, and the even vaster populations that lie beyond it, it has been a relatively good year. 
The global exultation that we saw a year ago, as the news of Barack Obama's election became irresistibly clear, was in a way...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Clinton speechwriter Ted Widmer says there's never been a presidential portrait as intimate as Taylor Branch's new book-and we'll never get a download like this about the second Bush administration.
Political-literary friendships go back a long...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama in Cairo: Two Thumbs Up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's former chief foreign-policy speechwriter rates Obama's Cairo speech his best yet. Ted Widmer explains how the president's astute address to the Muslim world was of biblical proportions.
High ambitions? Check. Dramatic setting? Check....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Obama Can Restore American Idealism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We have all heard the power of Barack Obama's oratory, and that too can be an essential tool in foreign policy.
Now the hard part begins.  To make the ideal real, or vice versa, is never as easy as it sounds in a speech. Well before the last "Yes We...]]></description>
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