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<description><![CDATA[Given that John McCain consistently polls better than Barack Obama on the question of how to fight terrorism, it is in McCain's interest to highlight the policy differences he has with Obama. But there aren't many, according to one counterterrorism expert.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Illinois senator Barack Obama begins his travels this weekend to meet with leaders in Europe and the Middle East. It's his first trip abroad as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Obama's campaign hopes the trip will show his preparedness to deal with foreign policy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[While Congress is struggling to address plummeting home values and mortgage meltdowns, some members of Congress are facing another kind of housing crisis: Questions have been raised recently about the fairness of what they pay for their own digs.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Senate officials say some foreign banks routinely use dummy corporations, shell companies and trusts to help U.S. residents avoid taxes. A subcommittee report says the overseas tax shelters cost the United States about $100 billion a year.]]></description>
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<title>Shape-shifter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Architects don&#8217;t usually hold elaborate press conferences to announce their new designs. But David Fisher is not a typical architect, and not only because he goes by the honorific &#8220;Dr.&#8221; Fisher, who was born in Tel Aviv fifty-nine years ago, is based in Florence, and believes that he has&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The plot of &#8220;The Romantics,&#8221; a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer, unfolds during the weekend wedding of Lila Hayes, a blond, beautiful, witty, and wealthy Yale graduate, and her former classmate Tom McDevon, a handsome, charming, social-climbing cipher. The book&#8217;s heroine--the clever, ill-at-ease, Brooklyn-dwelling Laura&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>H-bloo On A-rod</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shortly before his regular teatime, one day last week, the Yale literature professor Harold Bloom found an occasion to consider the plight of his beloved Yankees, as they approached the All Star break in third place, and of their star third baseman, Alex Rodriguez. &#8220;The poor fellow, you know he&#8217;s&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the World Wide Web&#8217;s most distinguished organs of fake news, the Borowitz Report, leads its current issue with this flash: 


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<description><![CDATA[How seldom the native of this, the most vertical of cities, actually turns his head skyward. New Yorkers tend to stare straight ahead or peer downward, the better to avoid strollers, puddles, dog droppings, and panhandlers. For the past few months, though, passersby near the intersection of Bedford and Morton&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim&#8217;s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of &#8220;Wild Thing,&#8221; for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, &#8220;This is lame,&#8221; and slipped back&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When bad things happen, it&#8217;s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[With the Yankees&#8217; pitching in a perpetual flummox and the distraction of a home All-Star Game looming into view in the last summer of baseball up at the Stadium, this is a good time to bring up a vivid, semi-obscure Yankee team record that almost rivals those fabled&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When Janet Hamlin first went to Guant&#225;namo Bay to work as a courtroom sketch artist, in April of 2006, she was forbidden to draw the faces of detainees in any detail, as part of the Pentagon&#8217;s efforts to comply with the Geneva Conventions. By the time of her second trip&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[On October 7, 2002, in Cincinnati, Ohio, George W. Bush delivered the defining speech of his Presidency. In the face of &#8220;clear evidence of peril&#8221; from a regime harboring terrorists and weapons of mass destruction, he declared, &#8220;we cannot wait for the final proof--the smoking gun--that could come&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Stephen Gorevan, a co-founder of Honeybee Robotics, has thick snow-white hair that seems to float above his head like a cloud, and he wears glasses with pronounced black frames. He greeted a recent visitor to Honeybee&#8217;s offices, on Thirty-fourth Street, by producing a magnifying glass from his&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The ginkgo, a.k.a. the maidenhair tree, or the duck&#8217;s-foot tree, is remarkable in many ways. It is a living fossil, dating to the early Permian era. It has no close relatives (classification: Plantae, Ginkgophyta, Ginkgoopsida, Ginkgoales, Ginkgoaceae, Ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba), and one of its chief characteristics is hardiness: ginkgos&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When friends and acquaintances of Joan Blumberger Olden, a former fashion executive in New York, received an invitation recently to a cocktail party honoring Fran&#231;ois Boziz&#233;, the President of the Central African Republic, it came as a surprise to many of them not only to discover that there was such&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Lance Stephenson, the best high  school basketball player in New York City, was in midtown one recent Monday night to watch an early cut of a new documentary in which he stars. The film, &#8220;Gunnin&#8217; for That #1 Spot,&#8221; was directed by Adam (MCA) Yauch, of the Beastie Boys, and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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