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            <title><![CDATA[Going Postal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The office shooting in Orlando-on the same day unemployment crested 10 percent-is a deadly omen. Mark Ames on why spikes in joblessness always breed more workplace violence.
On Friday morning, it was announced that America's unemployment had...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark Ames]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Mass Murder Addiction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. Lee Siegel on America's shameful epidemic.
Nidal Malik Hasan may have shouted "Allahu Akbar" before his murderous onslaught at Fort Hood, but his...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Cartoons]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why was Election Day like a McDonald's giveaway? What's written on the GOP's welcome mat? And what do the Yankees share with Obama? VIEW OUR GALLERY of the week's best political cartoons.
Click Below to View Our Gallery

For More of The Daily Beast,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 Crucial Moments]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Daily Beast looks at 20 events that led to the opening of modern history's most infamous barrier. View our gallery.
Click Below to View Our Gallery
For More of The Daily Beast,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Midterm Nightmare]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As House leaders push to pass health-care reform, a major political headache looms: The bill's impact won't be felt until long after already anxious voters go to the polls in 2010.
Democrats are in a predictable panic after this week's Republican...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Sesame Street's Fox News slam to a Philippines prison's Queen jam, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Click the Image Below to View Our Viral Video Gallery
Plus: Check out more of the latest entertainment, fashion, and culture coverage...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Week in Red Carpet]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Kate Bosworth wears winter white in Moscow, Leighton Meester stuns in floral, and Katy Perry goes jeweled and feathered. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best looks of the week. 
Click Image Below to View Our Red Carpet Gallery
Plus: Check out more of the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA['Wide Open to Attack']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Fort Hood mourns the death of 13 soldiers at an Army psychiatrist's hand, the ex-chief of the CIA's WMD unit says security at U.S. military bases nationwide is grossly inadequate.
Charles Faddis, a 20-year CIA counterterrorism veteran, says U.S....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jeff Stein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Serial Killer's Free Rein]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[No one cared about Cleveland's missing black women until it turned out to be the work of a serial killer. Now the cops and the media are all over us-about four years too late.
On November 3, as a Republican electoral insurgency made headlines across...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mansfield Frazier]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bringing Down Bachmann]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The far right's star House member just hit the headlines with a rowdy health-care rally on Capitol Hill. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the Democrats lining up in Minnesota to send Michele Bachmann into early retirement.
Michele Bachmann took her...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fort Hood Shooting: The Aftermath]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Authorities are still piecing together a troubling portrait of the man thought to be the killer of at least 13 people in Thursday's mass shooting at Fort Hood. Follow the breaking details about the victims, suspected shooter, and government...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts how The Sunday Times unmasked Kim Philby, the most notorious spy of the Cold War.
The smooth, well-dressed British "minor" civil servant Kim Philby is known now as the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Harold Evans]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Hot Jobs (and Not Jobs)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With unemployment over 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the careers with the best-and worst-prospects. The results: the 10 high-growth and 10 worst-growth jobs out there.
For the first time...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Collateral Damage to Muslims]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The suspected Fort Hood shooter left more than a trail of carnage in his wake. He has sown fear in the hearts of millions of Muslim Americans-and inflamed hatred of Islam.
We don't have any solid answers as to why Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bachmann's Angry Mob]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The gray-haired curiosity-seekers assembled by the Tea Party's Wonder Woman, Michele Bachmann, in D.C. are part of the GOP purge that plays well on cable TV. But the the party's not ready to face its biggest threat.
The gathering of Tea Party sorts on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Batchelor]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I'm Thrilled Baseball Is Over]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The end of the World Series has Laura Bennett excited not about the New York Yankees' victory, but about the return of Glee and nights with her husband-and no more watching grown men spitting in high definition.
I have so many reasons to be excited...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Laura  Bennett]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anywhere but Fort Hood]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Texas base wasn't supposed to be the scene of a massacre: It just launched a "resiliency" center, as part of a bold Army plan to reverse a spike in post-combat disorders.
This was not the Army post where soldiers should have been on guard against...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gail Sheehy]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Crunch Time for Time Warner]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[His publishing unit is trouble. The spinoff of AOL is at hand. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes talks exclusively with The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove about the future of the media business.
Jeffrey Bewkes seemed eager to unveil a brand-new business strategy for Time...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:39:16 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Weekend Crossword: "Daylight Savings"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast presents the perfect weekend entertainment for novices and seasoned cruciverbalists alike. Solve the crossword from the comfort of your own computer-or print it out and take it anywhere. 
Instructions: To begin The Daily Beast's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Gaffney]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Has Tracey Emin Gone Soft?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Britain's onetime bad girl is mellowing with age. On the eve of a bold new show, she talks to Rachel Wolff about making peace with critics, and her legendary sex drive. VIEW OUR GALLERY. 
When Tracey Emin introduced herself, she was soft-spoken,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rachel Wolff]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Levi Unzipped: Inside Playgirl's Big Stunt]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since the Palin family nemesis teamed up with Playgirl, mystery has surrounded who was bringing the magazine back from the dead. Jacob Bernstein on the former sex party planner behind the revival, and why he doesn't know or care how big Johnston's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jacob Bernstein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Culture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week, Obama mingles with Hollywood's A-list, Precious finally hits theaters, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin team up, and more in art, music, theater, and film. 
Sure, it's cold, it's windy, and it's probably snowing where you are. But that makes...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rachel Syme]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bruce Davidson's True Grit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From photographs of a Brooklyn gang to civil-rights workers in the South, a powerful new retrospective celebrates 50 years of a groundbreaking social documentarian. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Bruce Davidson's photographs seem to get better with age.  While the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Philip Gefter]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Yes List - The Sounds of Glee]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the joyous Glee soundtrack, the painted confections of Will Cotton, and the best ballet documentary of all time.

The Sounds of Glee
In the new,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fort Hood's Bleak World]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The base where a mental-health counselor went on a deadly rampage, a sprawling complex in an economically depressed corner of Texas, is a stark reminder of the emotional tolls of war.
Maybe the most amazing thing about the shootings at Fort Hood today...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mimi Swartz]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fort Hood Shooting: Breaking News]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thirteen are dead and 30 wounded after a gunman opened fire on Texas' Fort Hood military base. Follow the breaking details about the event, victims, the suspected shooter-an Army major and medical professional-and military and government...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Purged Moderate Speaks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How is Dede Scozzafava holding up after a conservative insurgent drove her from the New York House race? Michael Smerconish asks the former Republican candidate about the future of her party. 
Republican New York State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Smerconish]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The New Activism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Today's women's rights activism rejects the paternalism and feel-good sloganeering of the '60s and '70s; it's about measurable economic empowerment for women-and an end to the political corruption that holds girls and women back.
A few days after U.S....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tom Watson]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Getting Obama Back in the Game]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The White House response to Tuesday's results has been listless at best. Richard Wolffe on the 2008 campaign lessons that could help Obama rally Democrats again.
Since Tuesday night's election results, the White House has repeated a simple mantra...]]></description>
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Despite the Independent Election Commission's decision to put an...]]></description>
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