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            <title><![CDATA[Why America Must Learn to Bow]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president's visit to China was seen as failure, but what if that was just the new standard? Martin Jacques on why the U.S. must get used to decline-and learn humility.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[`Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nixon's victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The World's Brainiest Call Girl]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week a research scientist was unmasked as blogger Belle de Jour, inspiration for Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Olivia Cole on a sex scandal's surprisingly happy ending.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Next `Twilight']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From fallen angels to zombies, publishers and movie producers are on the hunt for the next big young adult series that will dominate the market. The Daily Beast's Shannon Donnelly on the top six candidates.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin's Katie Couric Myths]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's account of her infamous interview with "the perky one" is not the whole story. Shushannah Walshe on what Going Rogue gets wrong about the TV showdown that doomed her.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[PEN ALERT: Free Liu Xiaobo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  PEN American Center has written a letter to President Obama asking him to help pressure the Chinese authorities to release a Tiananmen dissident, writer, and activist. Read more about the case.
Liu Xiaobo, a renowned literary critic, writer, and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Missing Pages in Palin's Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Alaska governor's new memoir will have no index, robbing D.C. insiders of their favorite game: seeing their names in print. Samuel P. Jacobs on the death of the "Washington Read." 
Sarah Palin's book hits stores on Tuesday. For Washington's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Fabulous Life]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an excerpt from his new memoir, Redeeming Features, the designer Nicholas Haslam tells about hiding in a closet with the Duchess of Windsor and the wedding of his royal cousin, Princess Diana.
Many of the invitations Margaret Case issued during my...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nicholas Haslam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:49:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rolling Stones' Bloody Concert]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Forty years ago, Ethan Russell's iconic photographs captured Mick and the boys on their 1969 tour and its tragic end at the infamous Altamont Speedway show.  His new book on the tour, Let It Bleed, is out now. 
Click Image Below to View Our...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:12:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marc Rich Spills His Secrets]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The fugitive financier's biographer talks to Allan Dodds Frank about Rich's global commodities empire, his connection to U.S. intelligence, and how he bribed world leaders.
Everyone has a favorite fugitive. Hollywood loves Roman Polanski; the Taliban...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Allan Dodds Frank]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tackling A Feminine Taboo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In their new book Flow two authors take on a taboo topic-and target the new pills that suppress periods. 
Through period-suppressing birth control pills, it's now possible to avoid "Aunt Flo" entirely. So what busy, jaded women who don't even have...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Danielle Friedman]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA["The Only Woman in the Room"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Molly Ivins was the most popular liberal commentator of the last 25 years. Bill Minutaglio, author of a new biography of the tangy Texan, on why her voice is needed now more than ever. 
There was Morley Safer, in a scrum of old hardball Texas liberals...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bill Minutaglio]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:35:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[American Striptease]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dita Von Teese talks to The Daily Beast about her sexy new flipbooks, why America can't handle her moves, and the secrets of old-school burlesque.
America may have just lost burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese to Paris. The 37-year-old Michigan-born...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rachel  Kramer Bussel]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best of Brit Lit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: the harrowing true story of discovering the Northwest Passage, the British art of political sketches, and myth and fairytales in British history.
The Arctic Heart of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Was a WWII Classic Too Gay?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the nation marks another Veterans Day with gays still barred from serving openly, Kaylie Jones, daughter of From Here to Eternity author James Jones, reveals that a major gay sex storyline was cut from her father's famed novel. Plus, view the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Kaylie Jones]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Great Books for Poker Fiends]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From David Mamet's American Buffalo to Bill Gates' memoir, poker expert James McManus shares five great works where the game plays a major hand. His new book, Cowboys Full, has just been published.
Tennessee Williams used poker's old-school tough-guy...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[James McManus]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Does Suzanne Somers Cause Cancer?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The former actress has one of the nation's top books, touting secret cancer cures. But these methods, reports Gerald Posner, may actually increase the disease risk. Specifically, Posner reveals how:                         


Her book promotes a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Life as the 'PC Guy']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Hodgman opens up about becoming Apple's famous foil, what it's like to mock President Obama-and how to make the perfect drink. PLUS, an excerpt from his book More Information Than You Require. 
John Hodgman talks to Rachel Sklar About Mixing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amis vs. "Two Bags of Silicone"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Amid allegations of sexism and snobbery, novelist Martin Amis has attacked Katie Price, the model-turned-author known as Jordan. Olivia Cole on London's favorite literary feud.
Imagine Tom Wolfe unveiling his latest novel: I Am Anna Nicole Smith.  Or...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Olivia Cole]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:51:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[4 Great Books on the Cold War]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Daily Beast sorts through the best new and old books on the Cold War and the fall of communism.

The File: A Personal HistoryA most astute political commentator and historian, Timothy Garton...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did Punk Rock Tear Down the Wall?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The untold story of East Germany's anarchic underground punk scene and the critical role it played bringing down the Berlin Wall. 
On November 9, 1989, the East German underground guitar band Die Anderen-the Others-had a gig on the other side of the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tim Mohr]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:54:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Charmed Life of a Traitor]]></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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:46:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Journey of the American Woman]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Gail Collins' new book tells the story of American women since the 1950s, writes Christine Stansell-and shows us that the depressing mess left when an old order crumbles is still preferable to the tidiness of a once-immovable status quo.
From the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Christine Stansell]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:28:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rick Hertzberg's Victory Dance]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ With &iexcl;Ob&aacute;manos!,  his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning.
The first time Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker political writer, met...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bryan Curtis]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:54:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Berlin Wall Legend Shattered]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New revelations in Germany have shattered the official story on how the wall came down 20 years ago. Far from a spontaneous protest, it was a carefully planned government plot.
The fall of the Berlin Wall on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, has always been...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tim Mohr]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:10:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's Lost Speeches]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast has obtained the speeches Sarah Palin planned to deliver on Election Night 2008-win or lose. Read the words the McCain camp didn't want her to say. 
One year ago Wednesday, the McCain/Palin ticket suffered a resounding electoral...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shushannah Walshe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:42:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best of Brit Lit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: a great forgotten British poet, Afghanistan's natural state, and a new selection of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
"Our Greatest Female War Poet"
She was "our greatest female...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:01:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Campaign Mastermind]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama '08 architect David Plouffe, author of the first insider's tell-all, talks with Richard Wolffe about why he almost left the campaign, how he's like Rahm-and Tuesday's voting. Plus, read an exclusive excerpt from Plouffe's book about how Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Richard Wolffe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:48:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foer's Call to Arms]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks to Jane Ciabattari about his new nonfiction book, the horrors of factory farming, deciding what to feed his son, and why killing animals is just wrong. 
My introduction to Jonathan Safran Foer's work was in the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jane Ciabattari]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:28:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[2009's Bestselling Celebrity Books]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Bill O'Reilly to Bob Barker, the year's 15 bestselling memoirs of movie stars, TV personalities, and the rich and famous.  Rankings provided by Nielsen BookScan.
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Plus: Check out Book Beast for more news on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scaling the Berlin Wall]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, journalist Michael Meyer looks back at the years he spent astride it. An exclusive excerpt from The Year the World Changed.
Arriving in Berlin, I would do what I always did: Drop my...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael R. Meyer]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Pop Culture Savant]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim on why Chuck Klosterman's latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, shows him as pop-culture obsessed as always and wonders if his shtick still works. 
Chuck Klosterman, pop-culture savant, patron saint of stoner intellectuals, Buddha of New...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pandemic of Fear]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The hysteria over the swine-flu vaccine-and not just the virus itself-is a public-health disaster and the latest example of America's irrational thinking, says Michael Specter.
In late April, an influenza virus that had never before been recognized...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Specter]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mountain Man]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Marshall talks to Ed Viesturs, the first American to reach the summit of all 14 of the world's highest peaks, about how he nearly died on K2 and his advice to other climbers.
Ed Viesturs will never forget climbing K2, the fearsome 28,251-foot...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Douglas Marshall]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:26:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philip Roth Unbound]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The most celebrated American author is at the height of his powers in his latest novel, The Humbling. In a rare video interview-his only for this book-Philip Roth sits down with Tina Brown for The Daily Beast's new Web series, The Beast Bar, to talk...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:06:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin or Danielle Steel?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Can you tell the difference between Sarah Palin's Going Rogue and Danielle Steel's No. 1 bestselling novel Rogue? Take our quiz.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:34:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best of Brit Lit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: the books soldiers take to war, how the French resistance was paid for, and what makes good music.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:05:22 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin's Unlikely Hero]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thomas Paine gets a nod in Going Rogue, and Sarah Palin's not the only conservative who loves this American revolutionary. But the right has him-and their American history-all wrong, writes historian Harvey Kaye.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Harvey J. Kaye]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:32:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Her Majesty's Secrets Revealed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new history of MI5 contains revelations straight from the spy agency's files, from bungling the Irish troubles to Hitler's thoughts on Chamberlain.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:14:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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