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<description><![CDATA[NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving discusses former GOP Rep. Bob Barr's decision to run as a Libertarian candidate for president. He also explains why Sen. Hillary Clinton's expected win in West Virginia on Tuesday isn't making big waves.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Designers of a new arena in St. Louis thought they were doing a good thing by putting more toilets in the women's restrooms. But as architecture professor Kathryn Anthony explains, their modest effort is only one small step in a direction that will require broad legislation.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Gay psychiatrist David Scasta organized a panel on religion, homosexuality and therapy that claims to "cure" people of being gay. It was to include openly gay bishop Gene Robinson and conservative Christians who call homosexuality a sin. Scasta ended up canceling his own panel.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[West Virginia hold its Democratic primary Tuesday. Hillary Clinton is expected to win handily. But the election comes as Clinton's chances to win the Democratic nomination shrink day to day. Barack Obama's big win in North Carolina last week has re-energized his campaign and sent a flurry of superdelegates to his camp.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When the going has gotten tough during Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination &mdash; gender politics have been a lifeline. Clinton's gender has helped her rally female votes and money. But Clinton hasn't talked too much about being a woman running for president.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government operated 100 boarding schools for Native American on and off reservations. One expert says the schools were part of a strategy to conquer Indians. Students who attended them were required to talk and dress as mainstream Americans.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. intended for a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is too "confrontational," according to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The commission's approval is necessary for any monument or memorial in the capital. The commission says the sculpture needs to be reworked.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As many as two-thirds of United States patent-law judges may have have been appointed in a way that violates the Constitution.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Police in Philadelphia are having an especially tough week. First, one of their officers was fatally shot while responding to an armed robbery. Then, in an unrelated incident, three other officers were caught on videotape beating three suspects.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[This week presidential hopeful Barack Obama made significant progress in his bid to be the Democratic nominee. Also this week, President Bush promised to veto a farm bill and a housing aid bill.]]></description>
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<title>Over Not Out</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When the polls closed in Indiana and North Carolina last Tuesday evening, a lot of Barack Obama supporters braced themselves for bad news. Their candidate had just gone through a harrowing month, divided neatly in two by his thumping in the Pennsylvania primary. He had been repeatedly gored by a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The playwright and screenwriter David Mamet was in town recently to talk about his new film, &#8220;Redbelt.&#8221; He sat patiently for an interview on a white wire chair in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art, one of his favorite haunts. He wore orange-rimmed glasses, a black&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Fly on the Wall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yasmina Reza, the French playwright (&#8220;Art,&#8221; among other works), was in town last week, talking about her newly translated book on Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, entitled &#8220;Dawn Dusk or Night.&#8221; Sarkozy allowed Reza, a newcomer to political journalism, to trail his steps and record his words--hour by hour&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Cyclone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Burmese military government, which hides from its people in the splendid isolation of a jungle capital newly manufactured in the center of the country, told the public, on April 29th, to expect widespread rain and forty-five-mile-an-hour winds on the southern coast. Cyclone Nargis arrived, on&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the earth, can no longer stand the destruction plaguing our planet. She sends five magic rings to five special young people. . . .&#8221; If you are familiar with this scenario, you probably grew up watching &#8220;Captain Planet and the Planeteers,&#8221; the environmental kids&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When Christopher Russell, a captain at Gramercy Tavern for many years, went to work at Union Square Caf&#233;, where he is now the general manager, he decided to import a few traditions. (Both restaurants are owned by Danny Meyer.) He banished wordy descriptions from the wine list and switched from&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Open Secret of Success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the current atmosphere of economic tumult, the announcement that Toyota sold a hundred and sixty thousand more cars than General Motors in the first three months of this year might seem like a minor news item. But it may very well signal the end of one of the most&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>No Endgame</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Presidential-primary races tend to proceed along self-reflexive lines. The candidate who is ahead--or who is perceived to be--receives more press coverage. He collects more contributions and endorsements, and these generate still more media attention, which brings in more money, more votes, and so on. Meanwhile, his&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, a talented weaver named Arachne declared herself superior in skill to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who also invented weaving. Whether Arachne was actually better we&#8217;ll never know, for Athena, in a jealous rage, destroyed her rival&#8217;s tapestry and turned her into a spider. Last summer&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[There was a long pause before Ted Sorensen answered the door the other day at his apartment, on Central Park West. In chinos and a tennis shirt, he still had the trim physique that all the New Frontiersmen had during their days of playing touch football on the beach at&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The centerpiece of the recent &#8220;Form as Strategy&#8221; exhibit, at Columbia&#8217;s Buell Center, was a copper- and silver-plated board game called Le Jeu de la Guerre--a kind of modernist take on chess conceived in 1977 by the Marxist philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord, with inspiration from the military&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 2004, when Ernie Col&#243;n was employed as a security guard on Long Island and feeling perturbed because, at seventy-two, he had too much idle time, he got an idea. That summer, the 9/11 Commission Report had been published and become a best-seller. Col&#243;n bought&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The terms of the 2008 Presidential campaign were set twenty years ago--or, more accurately, perhaps, sometime around the fifth century B.C. In 1988, as Lee Atwater, President George H. W. Bush&#8217;s young campaign manager, was contemplating how to defeat Michael Dukakis, he consulted &#8220;The Art of War,&#8221; by Sun&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[If there was a feeling of apprehension hanging over last week&#8217;s Daffodil Project Benefit Breakfast, where Michelle Paige Paterson, the new First Lady of New York, was a guest, it may have been because the only thing most New Yorkers know about their new First Lady is something people often&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Bill Vs. Barack</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the Thursday before the Pennsylvania primary, Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd of college students at a gymnasium in Lock Haven. The event was typical of the stops--forty-seven of them--that the former President had made in the state during the seven weeks leading up to the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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