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<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination in his bid to become the first African-American president, he'll join icons who made history on Aug. 28, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Emmett Till and even John Hinckley Jr.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In any other year, Hillary Clinton would have won the Democratic nomination, says Politico.com's Roger Simon. He breaks down the Clinton campaign's missteps &mdash; at the forefront, a simple lack of staff experience.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, we meet with two families &mdash; each striving for the American dream. Though they live just 10 miles apart, they face very different circumstances. One is well off, the other poor; one is black, one white. But they both value education and want a better life for their children.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Exactly three years after the anniversary of Katrina, Hurricane Gustav is threatening to hit New Orleans.  Kenneth Padgett, Jefferson Parish director of emergency services, discusses the lessons learned from Katrina.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the newest test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer, consumers will have the option to surf without a "history." There are benefits to this feature beyond just prolonging marriages.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Democratic National Convention was in a way, one big reality show. Who covered it best? Mary McNamara, the television critic for the Los Angeles Times, breaks it down from Colbert to CNN.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[We hear voices from this morning's Unity Breakfast at the Democratic National Convention. Many people were deeply moved by the naming of the first African American Democratic Party presidential nominee.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama makes history tonight when he speaks before the Democratic National Convention as the first black presidential nominee of a major party. But today also marks the 45th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman discusses the significance of both events.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Foreign policy experience and expertise is critical to many American voters in choosing a president. In this week's international briefing, hear how the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is being viewed by the foreign press. Jesus Esquivel, of  Mexico's Proceso political magazine and John Mulaa from Kenya's East African Standard discuss how media from abroad are being received at the DNC.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As Democratic Sen. Barack Obama moves forward as the first African-American to serve as a major party presidential nominee, the program continues its series What If?. Author and poet Maya Angelou, a former Hillary Clinton supporter, weighs the meaning of Obama's candidacy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama was nominated as the Democratic party's presidential candidate last night in Denver, and the party faithful cheered on speeches by former President Bill Clinton and vice presidential nominee Joe Biden. Hear thoughts from delegates on the floor during party's emotional roll call.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of the program's Music Minute from the Democratic National Convention, listen to a portion of the song, Yes We Can, by popular musician Will-I-Am. The song was based on a speech given by democratic candidate Barack Obama.]]></description>
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<title>Joshua Green Describes The View From Denver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Journalist Joshua Green discusses the activities at the Democratic National Convention. Green is a senior editor at The Atlantic. His writing has  appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and Rolling Stone.]]></description>
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<title>Mark Sawyer: Race And The Obama Campaign</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Political scientist and author runs the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA; he talks to Terry Gross about how Barack Obama's campaign is addressing issues touching on race and ethnicity.]]></description>
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<title>Katha Pollitt On The State Of The Glass Ceiling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Sen. Hillary Clinton conceded defeat in the Democratic presidential primary in June, she thanked her supporters for making "18 million cracks" in the glass ceiling. Political columnist Katha Pollitt discusses the historical significance of Clinton's presidential bid.]]></description>
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<title>Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn&#8217;t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market&#8217;s &#8220;ascent,&#8221; in particular&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The week before the week before this week&#8217;s scheduled gathering of the delegates and their media camp followers in Denver, the nominee-presumptive of the Democratic Party did something that is strongly recommended, and ought to be mandatory, for anyone who has just logged a year and a half&#8217;s worth&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ben McGrath: A picnic area in the middle of Broadway.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Congestion pricing or not, the Bloomberg administration is impressively committed to altering the flow of traffic through the center city. Such is its determination, in fact, that it has now reduced Broadway, the original Manhattan highway, to a series of what the Department of Transportation is calling &#8220;pedestrian living rooms&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Austin Kelley: The opening of the Sports Museum.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Between the Mitchell Report and the N.F.L.&#8217;s Spygate affair, the image of sports as an arena of fun and fair competition has taken a hit lately. Even the Olympics&#8217; opening ceremonies were marred by a controversy over lip-synching. So the recent inauguration, in lower Manhattan, of the Sports&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Richard Rayner: Saving the trees in Beijing.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kari Heli&#246;vaara is the head of forest entomology at the University of Helsinki and the co-author of a standard text, entitled &#8220;Insects and Pollution.&#8221; A Finn, he has nonetheless spent a good deal of the past decade working in China. &#8220;Control strategy&#8221;--how to stop insects from killing trees&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Paul Goldberger: Eli Zabar takes over a Hamptons farmer&#x26;#39;s market.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Amagansett Farmers Market used to be the sort of place where you bought tomatoes, not heirlooms, nothing was described as artisanal, and if you needed some Clorox or a newspaper you could find that, too. But last year Pat Struk, who started the market in 1954, decided that she&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Lizzie Widdicombe: A Democratic cowboy rides in from Nebraska.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As our thoughts turn to Denver, it&#8217;s tempting to imagine that the political stagecraft on view will be different this time--that after eight years of watching our leaders hunting quail and clearing brush in front of television cameras the country will have got over its thing for cowboy statesmen&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ben McGrath: Jerome Corsi, the author of The Obama Nation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jerry Corsi, from New Jersey, picked up his phone in Room 2743 at the Hilton, on Sixth Avenue, last Wednesday afternoon, and said, &#8220;Oh, Lou, it&#8217;s great to be back with you, Lou,&#8221; as though he were talking to an old pal. He was speaking to Lou Dobbs--live, on&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Remnick: What Putin is doing in Georgia.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On a bright September day in 1993, not long before he ended his two decades in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered a rare public address in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. Although Solzhenitsyn was energetic at the lectern, he was all but finished with his epic work as the chronicler of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Schulman: A walk in the park with the creator of Hair.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[James Rado has been spending a lot of time in Central Park lately, discovering that certain trees and the smell of hot dogs can be as evocative as an acid flashback. In 1967, Rado and his friend Gerome Ragni, both actors, wrote a musical, with the composer Galt MacDermot, about&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Lizzie Widdicombe: Buddy Song</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_widdicombe</link>
<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, John McCain revealed his love for Abba, a confession that produced a campaign theme song (&#8220;Take a Chance on Me&#8221;) and a number of parodies (one, on the Web site Jezebel, went &#8220;Gimme gimme gimme McCain after midnight&#8221;). The choice of Abba--brilliant or terrible?--was a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Lauren Collins: Purpose-driven Hype</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_collins</link>
<description><![CDATA[s backing, but he offered a potential slogan for the showdown: &#8220;Remember Iowa!&#8221; (inspired, he said, by &#8220;Remember the Alamo&#8221;). Were King in charge, he&#8217;d fire up the public with a sort of historical-highlight reel: &#8220;I would remind them that when the water was over the portholes and John&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Too many stakeholders can be a deal-breaker.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies--including one owned by Orville Wright--that held patents on the various components that made a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Elizabeth Kolbert: McCain and the hard truth.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Late last month, Senator John McCain went up with a new television ad, titled &#8220;Pump.&#8221; The ad begins no place in particular with a gasoline pump, circa 1965. &#8220;Gas prices--four dollars, five dollars,&#8221; a female narrator intones, as the numbers on the pump&#8217;s front panel spin. &#8220;No end in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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