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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Was Right About Hillary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary is a handful, but that's exactly what the State Department-and America-needs.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Let Me Give It to You Straight]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After years of evasiveness by the GOP, finally some frank talk about deficits from Obama and even from Hillary in China. By Peter Beinart.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 10 Most Intriguing People of 2009]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to General McChrystal, the commander in Afghanistan, President Obama finally sent more troops and devoted more resources to that war. One of the few holdovers from the Bush administration, Gen. McChrystal has shown foresight as a leader and had...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center Honors]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stand for the National Anthem at the Kennedy Center Honors gala in Washington.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ The 25 Smartest People of the Decade]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Field: Television

Position: CEO, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network; chairman of Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television

Why He Was Nominated: Television journalism was completely transformed over the past decade-69-year-old Ailes...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Donatella Versace]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Distant Celebrity Relatives]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[His election may spell an end to health-care reform, but maybe now Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown will be forgiven by President Obama-it was just discovered the politicians are 10th cousins. Both of their mothers descended from Richard Singletary of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: The Musical]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[13 Must-Watch Videos of the Week]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Chris Matthews confronted William Kostric, the protester who brought a loaded gun to Obama's town-hall meeting. When Matthews asked Kostric why in the world anyone would try to bring a loaded gun to see the president, Kostric replied, "Who...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[9 Most Outrageous News Videos of the Week]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[August is usually slow on news and entertainment, which means it's the perfect time to indulge in trainwreck television. Take this, for example: Sherri of The View has been working out for months to look good in a bathing suit, and she does! But what...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton in Africa]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki, and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka arrive at the opening of the eighth Africa Growth Opportunities Act Forum in Nairobi on August 5. Clinton said Wednesday that investors will shun...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 10 Sexiest First Ladies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A surprising choice, some might say. But there's always been something oddly sexy about Hillary's waspish temper, ferocious intelligence, and fighting qualities. Not a classical beauty, but quite a looker when she was younger, and can still turn heads...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Empty Nest Powerhouses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton became an empty nester in 1998, when daughter Chelsea left for Stanford after spending most of her teen years in the White House. Since her full-time mothering duties ended, Clinton's become a political force-in the Senate, as a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[White House Easters]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Malia, right, and Sasha, left, and his mother-in-law Marian Robinson, second from right, take part in the annual Easter Egg Roll, Monday, April 13, 2009, at the White House in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[20 Fashion Trends in 2008]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton took some heat for her pumpkin pantsuit at the DNC, but these days, the future Secretary of State is rocking chic all-black suits. What more can be said about Sarah Palin, the 0,000 gaffe in boots? It's First Lady-to-be Michelle Obama's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A New Clip From Larry Flynt's Paylin Outrage]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Helping or Hurting?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Even if they go with the best of intentions, celebrities and high-profile politicians should think twice before taking a trip to Haiti, writes Kara C. MacDonald at Foreign Policy. Citing the outsized resources necessary to accommodate visits from the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Baptists Return to Haiti Jail]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The group of U.S. missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti will face three more days of hearings after being denied provisional release Friday, reported lawyer Edwin Coq. Neither Haitian officials at the courthouse nor the charged Baptists...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Says No to Prisoner Swap]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Following an offer from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday to free the three American hikers captured in July 2009 in exchange for Iranians jailed in the U.S., Hillary Clinton has publicly denounced such a deal. The Secretary of State called...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China: Shun the Dalai Lama, Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chinese and American relations-already tense after Hillary Clinton reprimanded China for its lack of Internet freedom-could get worse if President Obama meets with the Dalai Lama, a Chinese official said on Tuesday. The Communist Party official said...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Safeguards in Persian Gulf]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The U.S. is placing special ships off the coast of Iran and antimissile systems in at least four Arab countries in an effort to beef up defenses against possible Iranian missile strikes, The New York Times reports. The Obama administration is trying to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Backs Taliban Negotiations]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton will lend her support to a $500 million initiative by NATO and Afghan officials seeking to negotiate with Taliban insurgents, it was revealed at this week's London conference. "The starting premise is you don't make peace with your...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Floats Resignation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After two decades in the national spotlight, Hillary Clinton's energy levels are beginning to dim. Asked if she'd serve as secretary of State through a second hypothetical term of the Obama administration, she replied: "No, I really can't." Clinton...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. to Host Haiti Conference]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Better book George Clooney early: The United States will host an international conference to raise money to rebuild Haiti at the United Nations headquarters in early March. On Monday, representatives of 10 countries, including U.S. Secretary of State...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Blasts Clinton]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The latest exchange between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and China suggests that the keyboard is mightier than the warhead. Clinton's groundbreaking speech on Thursday, the first by a senior U.S. official to suggest that a threat against the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Hails Internet Freedom]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton championed Internet freedom on Thursday and said that countries that participate in cyber attacks should face consequences. "In an interconnected world, an attack on one nation's networks can be an attack on all,"...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[One Million Orphans in Haiti]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The first orphans evacuated from Haiti in the wake of its devastating earthquake are arriving in the U.S. Aid groups say as many as 1,000,000 have been left without one or both parents after the disaster, and 53 orphans arrived in Pittsburgh today....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton, Bush to Meet with Obama Today]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will visit their former home today as Barack Obama hosts the two former presidents at the White House to discuss relief efforts in Haiti. No details have emerged about what Clinton and Bush are planning, but the move...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former Clinton Staffers Tell All]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The new tell-all Washington book Game Change paints a highly unflattering portrait of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, but the once-fearsome Clinton camp has yet to counterattack, Politico reports, mainly because the secretary of State's former...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spike in Female Ambassadors to U.S.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What do Bahrain, the Netherlands, Oman, India, Colombia, Singapore, and Lichtenstein have in common? They've all got female ambassadors stationed in Washington. According to The Washington Post, of the 182 accredited ambassadors in D.C., an all-time...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harold Ford to Test Gillibrand?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An influential group of New York Democrats--including financier Steven Rattner, co-president of HBO Richard Plepler, and New York State Board of Regents chancellor Merryl H. Tisch--are reportedly urging former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr. to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's First Transgender Appointee]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama has appointed Amanda Simpson to be a senior technical adviser to the Commerce Department. In a statement, Simpson said she was proud to be one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government and that she hopes...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: 'No Time to Waste']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New Jersey dad David Goldman may get to spend the new year with his 9-year-old son, after a Brazilian federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the boy must be handed over to him at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro within 48 hours. In 2004,...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Though an Italian jury has handed down Amanda Knox's conviction, the case that has captured international attention is far from over, and is headed next for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington state appealed to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Four More Years in Afghanistan?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[NATO Pledges 7,000 More Troops]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Europe isn't leaving President Obama hanging: The NATO secretary-general announced on Friday that the alliance will contribute 7,000 new troops to Afghanistan, making the total commitment, when you add in American forces, to 37,000 new troops. Obama...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Going Rogue Hits 1M in Sales]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Where is Sarah Palin looking, as she stares off into the horizon on the cover of her memoir, Going Rogue? Probably at stacks of money. The ex-governor's book has passed 1 million in sales just two weeks after its publication. HarperCollins expanded the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bill and Hillary Two-Step]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[She's the Secretary of State. He's a globe-trotting ex-president. Are Bill and Hillary Clinton doing enough to avoid conflicts of interest? According to The Washington Post, maybe not. Near the top of Hillary's agenda are Northern Ireland, Haiti, and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Second-Most Powerful VP Ever]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney may have been the most powerful vice president in American history, but could Joe Biden give him a run for his money? A new profile in The New York Times Magazine declares Biden the "second-most powerful vice president in history." Biden is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin Second Only to Bubba in Book Sales]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Karzai Sworn in for Second Term]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for his second term on Thursday. He promised that the Afghan Army would control the country within five years, saying: "We will decrease the role of international forces." Karzai was proclaimed the winner...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Clinton?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's not as far-fetched as you might think. Mark McKinnon and Myra Adams on how Supreme Court retirements could persuade the secretary of State to take a high-court seat. 
The political bombshell of the year could turn out to be Supreme Court Justice...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[February 7: 8 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin issues a challenge to President Obama, Timothy Geithner takes on Scott Brown and guess which columnist loves demon sheep? That and more in our Sunday roundup. 
Palin Willing to Duke it Out with Obama in 2012
Will Sarah Palin run in 2012?...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ireland's Big Breakthrough]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The agreement to stabilize the Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland will allow the province, finally, to police itself. It also ends America's role as a peace broker in the region. 
British and Irish leaders announced on Friday, with...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Party, Day 1]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Avlon speaks to Tom Tancredo about his suggested "literacy test" for voters, and the Tea Partiers form a political action committee to target Dems in 2010 races. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America
Tom...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Reckless, Ridiculous China Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House this month. The move is sure to anger China, which warned Obama against allowing such a visit earlier this week. John Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the UN, says competing priorities drive...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh! The Musical]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chicago's Second City takes aim at the right's biggest mouth in a new musical comedy. Too bad the show isn't as skillful as Rush.
Back when Saturday Night Live was in the opening innings of its still-floundering attempt to land a funny Barack Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coakley's Lessons for Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Massachusetts' Senate upset has left political players wondering what it will take for women to win races in 2010. Dana Goldstein on the implications of Martha Coakley's defeat-and female candidates to watch this year.
From Rep. Bart Stupak's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Was It the Truck?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's upset in Massachusetts came after months of campaigning in his beloved pickup. From Fred Thompson to Richard Nixon, VIEW OUR GALLERY of candidates who tailgated for votes.
Click Image Below to View our Gallery of Politicians on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Downhill After His Election]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's victory in November 2008 set the bar for historic achievement. But nothing so heady has happened since. 
I think his inauguration is a gold-star day in the annals of American history. If in fact it's true that slavery was America's original...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gillibrand Fights Back]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Under attack from Tennessee transplant Harold Ford, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand returns fire-explaining her own position changes, tiptoeing around bank bonuses, and taking a swat at Lloyd Grove.
"I really am wonky," Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Doing Disaster Relief Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ There's a reason President Obama's response to catastrophe has been so much better than Bush's. It helps to believe in the power of government to aid lives.
Here's something you're not supposed to say: Barack Obama has responded to the earthquake in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop the Feminist Guilt Trip]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  By running a passive race, Martha Coakley not only imperiled her chances of winning the Massachusetts Senate seat; she let women down. Dana Goldstein on the hunger for a better kind of candidate.
I'll be blunt: Martha Coakley, the suddenly embattled...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton to the Rescue]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Haitian earthquake has put Bill Clinton squarely back on the world stage. And this mission is personal.
Last May, when the United Nations dispatched Bill Clinton to Haiti, it felt as if Clinton was slinking off the world stage. That changed...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Ray of Hope in Haiti]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After the quake hit, Haitians began streaming to Paul Farmer's medical complex. Michelle Goldberg on how the public-health crusader's team could help blunt the aftershocks of disease. 
Here is one tiny mercy amid the hell that's befallen Haiti: Zanmi...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michelle Goldberg]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Haiti in Crisis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Haiti's prime minister has told CNN that "hundreds of thousands" of people have died following Tuesday's earthquake, and said he had nowhere to sleep tonight since both the presidential palace and his private home were flattened in the earthquake....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Gone Crazy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The real revelation in the new book Game Change: Campaigns turn our politicians into lunatics.
"You all have worked in these campaigns," Soledad O'Brien marveled on Larry King the other night as his roundtable of pundits dished on Game Change, the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary's New Health Crusade]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a major speech, the Secretary of State declared women's reproductive rights a priority abroad. Michelle Goldberg on why the Obama administration is feminist after all.
For weeks, pro-choicers have been despairing over the way abortion rights are...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michelle Goldberg]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Sleepy Response]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Of course Obama is serious about terrorism, Nicolle Wallace says, but how come his savvy team didn't stop him from golfing and seeing Avatar before lashing out about the bomb attempt. 
What if the panty-bomber had been less incompetent?  What if the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nicolle Wallace]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week: a funny, dark Irish debut novel about a son's struggle after his mother's death, a Web guru's polemic on how technology is challenging our society, a masterful new historical novel from Tracy Chevalier, a journalist's surprising and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Monsters vs. Weenies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Where are the real statesmen when you need them? Somehow the 2009 stage got hijacked by grandstanding brutes like Glenn Beck and simpering compromisers like Harry Reid. Lee Siegel reviews the year in political theater.
We so often hear people...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Year in Talk: 2009's 19 Most Pivotal Moments]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Carrie Prejean to Balloon Boy, Glenn Beck to Miss O., a Letterman confession to Cramer's dressing-down courtesy of Jon Stewart, we bring you the best moments from talk television in 2009.
Joaquin Phoenix Walks the Line...between Crazy and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Just Saw the Future]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Copenhagen showed us the new normal: the U.S. has lost influence, China plays spoiler, and tiny nations veto anything they don't like. Leslie H. Gelb says get used to it.
We have seen the future of international politics and it is Copenhagen. That...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 10 Most Intriguing People of 2009]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From General McChrystal to Hillary Clinton to Chelsea Handler, Meghan McCain names the men and women who made a difference this year-the good, the bad, and the nutty.
This year has been full of people who let us down-from politics to entertainment to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Bill Fit for a Kennedy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Senate Democrats proclaimed the 60 votes needed to pass health-care reform, Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer says the late senator would have backed this bill. 
Ted Kennedy thought this moment would come, though by this spring he did not expect to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Adam Clymer]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Speed Read on Copenhagen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama and four developing nations have reached a non-binding agreement on emissions cuts on the president's last, frantic day in Copenhagen. The Daily Beast presents the key points of the closing hours and the final deal.
A Deal Is Reached, But Is...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:34:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jenny Sanford Is Not a Feminist Icon]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Jenny Sanford a feminist icon? Not so fast, writes Phoebe Connelly. After all, since when is it a radical act to leave one's lying, cheating spouse? 
Jenny Sanford's show of strength-and her reputation as the brains behind her husband's political...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Phoebe Connelly]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:57:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama wasn't ready to be president, and he better figure out what he's doing before it's too late.
As the first year of the Obama era draws to a close, the president is losing the battle for America's hearts and minds. It's hard not to feel...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:36:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Holbrooke Thinks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's Afghan plan left Afghans and Pakistanis with more questions than answers. Ahmed Rashid spoke with Richard Holbrooke about the region's biggest worries. 
No sooner had President Obama put his Afghan plan out there than his Cabinet started...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ahmed Rashid]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:42:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[60 Years Through His Lens]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Harry Benson has photographed dozens of iconic images, from O.J. Simpson naked to Kate Moss and the RFK assassination. View our NSFW gallery of his work.
Harry Benson has seen it all. Robert F. Kennedy fell, fatally wounded, at his feet. John Lennon...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Isabel Wilkinson]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:12:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Chelsea Convert?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton is Methodist. Her new fianc&eacute; is Jewish. From Ivanka Trump to Ed Koch, Jewish Americans talk to The Daily Beast's Samuel P. Jacobs about the question every mother-in-law wants answered.
"The great thing about America is everyone...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:47:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Clinton?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's not as far-fetched as you might think. Mark McKinnon and Myra Adams on how Supreme Court retirements could persuade the secretary of State to take a high-court seat. 
The political bombshell of the year could turn out to be Supreme Court Justice...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:47:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[February 7: 8 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin issues a challenge to President Obama, Timothy Geithner takes on Scott Brown and guess which columnist loves demon sheep? That and more in our Sunday roundup. 
Palin Willing to Duke it Out with Obama in 2012
Will Sarah Palin run in 2012?...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:04:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ireland's Big Breakthrough]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The agreement to stabilize the Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland will allow the province, finally, to police itself. It also ends America's role as a peace broker in the region. 
British and Irish leaders announced on Friday, with...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Niall Stanage]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:18:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Party, Day 1]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Avlon speaks to Tom Tancredo about his suggested "literacy test" for voters, and the Tea Partiers form a political action committee to target Dems in 2010 races. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America
Tom...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:36:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Reckless, Ridiculous China Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House this month. The move is sure to anger China, which warned Obama against allowing such a visit earlier this week. John Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the UN, says competing priorities drive...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:08:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh! The Musical]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chicago's Second City takes aim at the right's biggest mouth in a new musical comedy. Too bad the show isn't as skillful as Rush.
Back when Saturday Night Live was in the opening innings of its still-floundering attempt to land a funny Barack Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coakley's Lessons for Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Massachusetts' Senate upset has left political players wondering what it will take for women to win races in 2010. Dana Goldstein on the implications of Martha Coakley's defeat-and female candidates to watch this year.
From Rep. Bart Stupak's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:26:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Was It the Truck?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's upset in Massachusetts came after months of campaigning in his beloved pickup. From Fred Thompson to Richard Nixon, VIEW OUR GALLERY of candidates who tailgated for votes.
Click Image Below to View our Gallery of Politicians on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:42:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Downhill After His Election]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's victory in November 2008 set the bar for historic achievement. But nothing so heady has happened since. 
I think his inauguration is a gold-star day in the annals of American history. If in fact it's true that slavery was America's original...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Doug Brinkley]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:00:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gillibrand Fights Back]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Under attack from Tennessee transplant Harold Ford, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand returns fire-explaining her own position changes, tiptoeing around bank bonuses, and taking a swat at Lloyd Grove.
"I really am wonky," Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:44:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Doing Disaster Relief Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ There's a reason President Obama's response to catastrophe has been so much better than Bush's. It helps to believe in the power of government to aid lives.
Here's something you're not supposed to say: Barack Obama has responded to the earthquake in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:08:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop the Feminist Guilt Trip]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  By running a passive race, Martha Coakley not only imperiled her chances of winning the Massachusetts Senate seat; she let women down. Dana Goldstein on the hunger for a better kind of candidate.
I'll be blunt: Martha Coakley, the suddenly embattled...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:35:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton to the Rescue]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Haitian earthquake has put Bill Clinton squarely back on the world stage. And this mission is personal.
Last May, when the United Nations dispatched Bill Clinton to Haiti, it felt as if Clinton was slinking off the world stage. That changed...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bryan Curtis]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:06:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Ray of Hope in Haiti]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After the quake hit, Haitians began streaming to Paul Farmer's medical complex. Michelle Goldberg on how the public-health crusader's team could help blunt the aftershocks of disease. 
Here is one tiny mercy amid the hell that's befallen Haiti: Zanmi...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michelle Goldberg]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:19:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Haiti in Crisis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Haiti's prime minister has told CNN that "hundreds of thousands" of people have died following Tuesday's earthquake, and said he had nowhere to sleep tonight since both the presidential palace and his private home were flattened in the earthquake....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark Leon Goldberg ]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:05:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Gone Crazy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The real revelation in the new book Game Change: Campaigns turn our politicians into lunatics.
"You all have worked in these campaigns," Soledad O'Brien marveled on Larry King the other night as his roundtable of pundits dished on Game Change, the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:28:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary's New Health Crusade]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a major speech, the Secretary of State declared women's reproductive rights a priority abroad. Michelle Goldberg on why the Obama administration is feminist after all.
For weeks, pro-choicers have been despairing over the way abortion rights are...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michelle Goldberg]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:12:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Sleepy Response]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Of course Obama is serious about terrorism, Nicolle Wallace says, but how come his savvy team didn't stop him from golfing and seeing Avatar before lashing out about the bomb attempt. 
What if the panty-bomber had been less incompetent?  What if the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nicolle Wallace]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Week's Hot Reads]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week: a funny, dark Irish debut novel about a son's struggle after his mother's death, a Web guru's polemic on how technology is challenging our society, a masterful new historical novel from Tracy Chevalier, a journalist's surprising and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Monsters vs. Weenies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Where are the real statesmen when you need them? Somehow the 2009 stage got hijacked by grandstanding brutes like Glenn Beck and simpering compromisers like Harry Reid. Lee Siegel reviews the year in political theater.
We so often hear people...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:11:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Year in Talk: 2009's 19 Most Pivotal Moments]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Carrie Prejean to Balloon Boy, Glenn Beck to Miss O., a Letterman confession to Cramer's dressing-down courtesy of Jon Stewart, we bring you the best moments from talk television in 2009.
Joaquin Phoenix Walks the Line...between Crazy and...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:12:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Just Saw the Future]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Copenhagen showed us the new normal: the U.S. has lost influence, China plays spoiler, and tiny nations veto anything they don't like. Leslie H. Gelb says get used to it.
We have seen the future of international politics and it is Copenhagen. That...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:49:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 10 Most Intriguing People of 2009]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From General McChrystal to Hillary Clinton to Chelsea Handler, Meghan McCain names the men and women who made a difference this year-the good, the bad, and the nutty.
This year has been full of people who let us down-from politics to entertainment to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:37:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Bill Fit for a Kennedy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Senate Democrats proclaimed the 60 votes needed to pass health-care reform, Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer says the late senator would have backed this bill. 
Ted Kennedy thought this moment would come, though by this spring he did not expect to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Adam Clymer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:28:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Speed Read on Copenhagen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama and four developing nations have reached a non-binding agreement on emissions cuts on the president's last, frantic day in Copenhagen. The Daily Beast presents the key points of the closing hours and the final deal.
A Deal Is Reached, But Is...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:34:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jenny Sanford Is Not a Feminist Icon]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Jenny Sanford a feminist icon? Not so fast, writes Phoebe Connelly. After all, since when is it a radical act to leave one's lying, cheating spouse? 
Jenny Sanford's show of strength-and her reputation as the brains behind her husband's political...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Phoebe Connelly]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:57:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama wasn't ready to be president, and he better figure out what he's doing before it's too late.
As the first year of the Obama era draws to a close, the president is losing the battle for America's hearts and minds. It's hard not to feel...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:36:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Holbrooke Thinks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's Afghan plan left Afghans and Pakistanis with more questions than answers. Ahmed Rashid spoke with Richard Holbrooke about the region's biggest worries. 
No sooner had President Obama put his Afghan plan out there than his Cabinet started...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ahmed Rashid]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:42:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[60 Years Through His Lens]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-02/60-years-through-his-lens/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Harry Benson has photographed dozens of iconic images, from O.J. Simpson naked to Kate Moss and the RFK assassination. View our NSFW gallery of his work.
Harry Benson has seen it all. Robert F. Kennedy fell, fatally wounded, at his feet. John Lennon...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Isabel Wilkinson]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:12:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Chelsea Convert?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-01/will-she-convert/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton is Methodist. Her new fianc&eacute; is Jewish. From Ivanka Trump to Ed Koch, Jewish Americans talk to The Daily Beast's Samuel P. Jacobs about the question every mother-in-law wants answered.
"The great thing about America is everyone...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:47:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Punts on Super Bowl Pick]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked tough on Iran and North Korea on State of the Union Sunday, but she didn't have much to offer when it came to questions about football. She and Bill will be watching the game as "interested observers." CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:09:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Lashes Out at Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Secretary of State issued a stern warning to Latin American countries Friday: don't get too close to Iran. Clinton called Iran "the major supporter, promoter, and exporter of terrorism in the world today," and suggested people think twice before...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:46:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton: An Excited MOTB]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan wasn't the only big news this week: the Secretary of State's daughter Chelsea is getting married. Hillary Clinton tells CNN that while she's excited, the preparations are "daunting." Fear not, however-Madeleine Albright's already offered to...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:25:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Agrees to Coffee with Palin]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin sitting down together over a cup of coffee? It's a great idea, according to Clinton. Palin makes the suggestion in her new book, Going Rouge, which we have a feeling you'll be hearing quite a bit about this week.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:54:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton: Mistrust Iran? Of Course]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Charlie Rose Monday night, Hillary Clinton laid out the many reasons why the U.S. shouldn't trust Iran, before explaining President Obama's new, let's-get-real attitude toward the country: "We don't have to trust or love each other," she says, "to...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:17:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton Talks to Fox News]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Are we finally seeing some headway in the Fox News-White House war? Monday night, Hillary Clinton crossed into enemy territory to speak to Greta Van Susteren in Pakistan, discussing the undoubtedly more threatening war against Al Qaeda.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:51:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Defends Tough Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton defended her comments Thursday in which she said it was "hard to believe" the Pakistani government doesn't know where al Qaeda leaders are hiding. She stressed the importance of trust between the two countries. GMA]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Laughs Off Popularity Poll]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/hillary-clinton-on-beating-obama-in-polls/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[What does Hillary Clinton think about a new Gallup poll that claims she's more popular than the President? Not much. In an interview with CNN, she laughs off the win and talks about whether or not retirement is in her future.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:30:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary: Maybe It's a Woman Thing?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a one-on-one interview on Today, Hillary Clinton says she's happy being a team player-perhaps because she's a lady? And she brushes off the suggestion of another presidential run...but do her awkward chuckles lie?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:58:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Chimes in on Conan-Booker Feud]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show Thursday in an attempt to mediate the ongoing feud between Conan O'Brien and Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker. Her advice: Let's "chalk it up to Conan's head injury."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:30:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amanpour Grills Clinton and Gates]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an exclusive interview, Christiane Amanpour and George Washington University's Frank Sesno press Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates on Afghanistan, among other issues. More from their discussion here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary: 'I Like Being President']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the temporary president of UN Security Council on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton joked, "I kind of like being president, so this may go on a little longer than anticipated." ABC News]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:18:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beck: McCain Worse Than Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an online interview with Katie Couric, Fox host Glenn Beck says he would have picked Hillary Clinton over Sen. John McCain in the 2008 election and that McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:24:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[HRC to Obama Critics: Calm Down]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got into the health care debate Friday, with a prescription for "overheated" critics of reform: "take two aspirin" and "go to bed."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:03:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Bashes Bush in Nigeria]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Let's just say "diplomatic" won't be the first word that comes to mind as you watch this clip. Here's Hillary Clinton in Nigeria, bashing the Bush family and a certain recent presidential election.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:18:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary: I'm Sec. of State, Not Bill!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton was visibly annoyed when a student asked through a translator what her husband thought about a financial issue: "My husband is not the Secretary of State, I am." But the translator misspoke-the student had actually asked for President...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:45:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Gets Down in Kenya]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Here's a side of the secretary of state you don't see every day. Hillary Clinton loosened up a gala dinner in Nairobi this week, getting down-literally-on the dance floor.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:03:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary: Don't Question Bill]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton cracks up at the mere mention of former U.N. ambassador John Bolton and his criticism of her husband's North Korea mission, adding "if President Obama walked on water, he'd say he couldn't swim." CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:14:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton: Bill Went on His Own]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Clinton tells Today Bill went to North Korea on his own volition, and his efforts don't reflect policy. Personal and political, always very separate spheres for the Clintons.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Sunday's Meet the Press, Sec. Clinton said that America will do everything in its power to prevent Iran from going nuclear, saying "It is something we view with great concern."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton: North Korea Needs Time Out]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton thinks North Korea should be dealt with like a mom handles bratty children. Chelsea turned out pretty well, so maybe it's a good plan. Source: GMA]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Blasts 'Deplorable' Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pulled no punches in a talk today at the Council on Foreign Relations, calling the Iran's response to demonstrations "deplorable and unacceptable." ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary's Back]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton cracked a few jokes about her broken elbow, which has kept her out of the spotlight the past few weeks, at a State Department meeting Friday marking her six months on the job.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Anthem Done Right... and Wrong]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[No one does it quite like Whitney Houston. Or Roseanne Barr. The Daily Beast presents The Star Spangled Banner: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:51:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton on Women's Rights ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a press conference with Afghan President Karzai and Pakistani President Zardari, Clinton addressed women's rights in those nations. Source: ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 06 May 2009 12:52:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mortal Threat? What Mortal Threat?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani, appearing on CNN, has some choice words for Hillary Clinton, who earlier today said Pakistan is becoming a 'mortal threat' to the world. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:05:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Zings Cheney]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Hillary Clinton offers a few choice words about Dick Cheney. Clip above; more at ABC News.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Call it talk show diplomacy: here's Hillary Clinton on an Indonesian talk show for teenagers whose title translates to 'Awesome.' ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:20:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Offers North Korea a Deal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a speech Friday to the Asia Society, Sec. of State Clinton said the U.S. is prepared to normalize relations with North Korea - if the country abandons its nukes. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:32:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden Shushes Wife Over Gaffe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[So maybe Hillary wasn't Obama's first choice of sec. of state after all? Appearing on 'Oprah,' Jill Biden reveals -- doh! -- that her husband was offered that job as well as vice president.]]></description>
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