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		<title>Ringing the changes</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/03/11/ringing-the-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[al franken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black rock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Courtney Haden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huntsville Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john macreedy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ringing the changes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on navigation, prevarication &#038; vindication]]></description>
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		<title>About 31 years, as the gad flies</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/03/03/about-31-years-as-the-gad-flies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/03/03/about-31-years-as-the-gad-flies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bill baxley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen activists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtney Haden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dee fine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gadfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ginger busby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homewood citizens association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin forsyth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership homewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ouida fritschi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parks and recreation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russ fine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west homewood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=12299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interview with citizen activist Ouida Fritschi]]></description>
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		<title>Feel the Byrne</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/24/feel-the-byrne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/24/feel-the-byrne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Byrne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Django Reinhardt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Gould]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Secret film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephane Grappelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trilateral Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vampire Weekend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yma Sumac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In which the columnist draws a line between Django Reinhardt &#038; constitutional reform in Alabama]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t let your deal go down</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/03/don%e2%80%99t-let-your-deal-go-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/03/don%e2%80%99t-let-your-deal-go-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bingo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Riley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Barber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Bob Riley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tyson Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legalized gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Tomberlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milton McGregor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mississippi gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quincy’s 777 Casino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Beason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorter Ala.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoryland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you spell economic stability B-I-N-G-O?]]></description>
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		<title>America goes up on eBay</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/28/america-goes-up-on-ebay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/28/america-goes-up-on-ebay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court sells off the republic for parts]]></description>
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		<title>The thin line between love and Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/21/the-thin-line-between-love-and-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/21/the-thin-line-between-love-and-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Duvalier International Airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francois Duvalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Citadelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papa Doc Duvalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tonton Macoute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People with nothing have now even less

]]></description>
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		<title>A compilation of elation</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/06/a-compilation-of-elation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/06/a-compilation-of-elation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Hoffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boardwalk Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Bentley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conor Knighton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtney Haden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dixon Ticonderoga Number Two]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Five Points Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garrison Keillor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infomania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Underwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic 8-Ball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nucky Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O Kafés]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reed Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RefDesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Haskins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Buscemi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Korduroy Krocodile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Nissan Leaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wizard of Oz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“Prairie Home Companion”]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cheer today, yawn tomorrow

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		<title>A glimpse of a new decade’s early misgivings</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/30/a-glimpse-of-a-new-decade%e2%80%99s-early-misgivings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/30/a-glimpse-of-a-new-decade%e2%80%99s-early-misgivings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s get this out of the way first: Jimmie Johnson five-peat.]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years after</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/24/ten-years-after/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/24/ten-years-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decade in review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health-care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Woods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A decade under the confluence]]></description>
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		<title>Obsessive Compulsive Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/17/obsessive-compulsive-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/17/obsessive-compulsive-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Beckett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Burford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Bogle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevy 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drake Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Revere's Raiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Asheton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorty Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Seeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Stooges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ventures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A holiday drive through the years with Chevy 6

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		<title>Afghan agley</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/02/afghan-agley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/02/afghan-agley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Providential Distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Woods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=10652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A nation loses its balls in the rough 

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		<title>Surviving the New Depression with sweet taters</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/18/surviving-the-new-depression-with-sweet-taters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/18/surviving-the-new-depression-with-sweet-taters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nouriel Roubini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweet potato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweet potato pie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=10417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Political commentary plus a recipe for sweet potato pie.]]></description>
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		<title>Rev. Joseph Lowery receives Shuttlesworth award</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/11/rev-joseph-lowery-receives-shuttlesworth-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/11/rev-joseph-lowery-receives-shuttlesworth-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artur Da]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artur Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham Civil Rights Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Shuttlesworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parker Griffith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rev. Joseph Lowery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupak amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=10230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Rev. Joseph Lowery could tell you, if you want freedom, you have to fight to make it yours.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ballad of Federal Gaol</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/04/the-ballad-of-federal-gaol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/04/the-ballad-of-federal-gaol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Digest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=9984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A poem about an ex-mayor &#038; a prisoner-to-be.]]></description>
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		<title>The unfettered Leonard Cohen</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/29/the-unfettered-leonard-cohen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/29/the-unfettered-leonard-cohen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=9891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen fronts the house band in Purgatory.]]></description>
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		<title>Paltry prayer vigil means Langford love lagging</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/22/paltry-prayer-vigil-means-langford-love-lagging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/22/paltry-prayer-vigil-means-langford-love-lagging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adamsville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HealthSouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Langford trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Scrushy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some 26,227 citizens went out of their way to vote for Larry Langford, but last Sunday only .002% of that number came out to pray for his immortal soul.]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Keller goes to Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/14/miss-keller-goes-to-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/14/miss-keller-goes-to-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Big JIm" Folsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Sulivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Bob Riley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Keller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jabez Curry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new statue of Alabama native Helen Keller in Washington D.C. is not only the first representation of a child and the first of a disabled person in the Capitol, but also likely the first bronze rendering of a radical socialist activist erected there.]]></description>
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		<title>The Protean Picker Jim Lauderdale</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/07/the-protean-picker-jim-lauderdale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/07/the-protean-picker-jim-lauderdale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alys Stephens Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bluegrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Lauderdale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Lauderdale reigns as one of the busiest players in the music industry, writing hit songs for artists like George Strait and working on projects with everyone from Willie Nelson to Donna the Buffalo. ]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with St. Vincent</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/01/interview-with-annie-clark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/01/interview-with-annie-clark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bottletree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Vincent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Annie Clark is a girl on the cusp of transmutation.]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan war promises a victory so glorious we never shall win</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/24/afghanistan-war-promises-a-victory-so-glorious-we-never-shall-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/24/afghanistan-war-promises-a-victory-so-glorious-we-never-shall-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Stanley McChrystal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin-Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11 attacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There will be debate over war in Afghanistan, waged by those struggling for political advantage, while those who wage the actual war in the hard place on our behalf do so in abysmal circumstances.]]></description>
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