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            <title><![CDATA[McChrystal's Gift to Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The end of General McChrystal's tenure can give President Obama the opening he needs to do what's right: End the war in Afghanistan.
General Stanley McChrystal has given President Obama the opening he needs and-here's hoping-the opening he's been...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Army's Graveyard Disgrace]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ News that the Army misplaced remains at Arlington horrified veterans. James Carroll on the cemetery where his parents are buried and its problematic place in the American conscience.
My father and mother are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, at...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Pentagon Prayer Fight]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why did evangelicals and Sarah Palin flip when the Pentagon disinvited Islamophobe Franklin Graham from its prayer day event? James Carroll examines the roots of American Christian nationalism.
After heavy criticism of its decision to invite Franklin...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Next GOP Screw-Up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is Barack Obama near a foreign-policy accomplishment to pair with health-care reform? "After a year of intense negotiations, the United States and Russia have agreed to the most comprehensive arms-control agreement in nearly two decades," President...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:19:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Vatican's Sex Cover-up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Europe is now being wracked by fresh priest-abuse scandals, much like the United States was 10 years ago. James Carroll on how the Catholic Church aided and abetted the offenders.
The sex-scandal drumbeat of the Catholic Church approaches cacophony....]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:29:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dubai's Hollywood Hitmen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The murder of a Hamas leader by 17 assassins in a hotel room could have been ripped from a movie. James Carroll laments targeted killings inspired by the big screen.
The now-infamous Dubai hit, in which a leading Hamas military commander was...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:14:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Spot an Islamophobe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A major poll probing American prejudices toward Islam show that the best way to find out if a person hates Muslims is to find out if he also hates Jews.
The Gallup World Religion Survey has published the results of a new poll about American...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:38:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Misogynist Massachusetts]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's shocking that a Democrat lost the Massachusetts Senate race. Unless you consider that Martha Coakley is a woman-and her home state historically treats female candidates like dirt.
That the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:56:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Christian Anti-Gay Campaign]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Christian evangelicals helped spur Uganda to seek the death penalty for gay behavior-just the latest indication that homosexuals have replaced Jews as the new target for reactionary religious zeal.
Last March, Scott Lively and two other Christian...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Pope's Big Holocaust Lie]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Vatican is on the defensive as Jewish groups object to its decision to move Pius XII, the wartime pope, toward sainthood. James Carroll on the church's shameful bid to rewrite Holocaust history.
Arbeit Macht Frei was an instance of the Big Lie, a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:43:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Quintessential American]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Cheney's latest tirade against Obama offended even some on the right, but he soldiers on, unconcerned. James Carroll on the five characteristics that make him American.
"This is the very intrinsic-most American," D.H. Lawrence wrote of James...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Does God Hate the Kennedys?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ After denying communion to Patrick Kennedy, the Catholic Church is holding American politics hostage. James Carroll on the Church's rightward turn.
How reactionary has the Catholic hierarchy become? Let me count the ways:&nbsp;
- Bishop Thomas Tobin...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:23:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Church's Abortion Mistake]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ By focusing exclusively on the abortion issue in the health-care debate, James Carroll says the Catholic Church is sabotaging its broader moral mission.
What happens when a mainstream institution is taken over by its fringe? One answer plays itself...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:14:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Go to Hiroshima]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama should accept the invitation to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki extended this week-not to apologize, but to bear witness, and take a step toward eliminating all nukes.
Last Tuesday, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki visited the U.S. embassy in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:31:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Catholic Church's Next Scandal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At their latest meeting in Rome, African bishops ignored Catholicism's greatest failing-the AIDS crisis ravaging their continent. 
Last week, at the opening session of a synod of African bishops in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI condemned what he called "the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:22:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 9 / 11 the well-regarded writer and editor Tom Engelhardt was drafted. Ever since he has been a conscript in the campaign against America's  kneejerk wars. His weapon has been his eloquence. For nearly a decade, he has written passionate criticism...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:00:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Blog]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What is it to be a man without a war? Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast is often taken as a chronicle of expat literary celebrity (Gertrude, Sylvia, Ford, James, Ezra, Scott, and Zelda), but its impressions are crucially of the years 1921 to 1925,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 May 2010 23:24:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Newspaper Article]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Check out "An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in U.S. Defense Spending." It comes from The Project on Defense Alternatives-a Cambridge-based institute long run by two defense mavens, Charles Knight and Carl Conetta. The...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:02:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall, winner of the Booker Prize, turns the familiar story of Sir Thomas More upside-down, seeing the drama of Henry VIII's marital crisis from Thomas Cromwell's point of view. Contemporary conventional wisdom about More was...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:13:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/1140///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[I recommend A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. This doorstop of a book has the lightness of pure oxygen. It begins with an essay (by Toby Lester) about the first map on which the word "America" appears. More...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:07:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The peak reading of my summer has been Endpoint from John Updike's last poems, a clear-eyed chronicle of the final days of his life. This direct confrontation with death, through the magic of fine writing, leaves a reader not grief-struck or sad, much...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Blog]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As a gift from America, President Obama could do no better than present Pope Benedict with a copy of We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition, by the Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray. It is no coincidence that this...]]></description>
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