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<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama began his presidency portraying his national security policies as radically different from those of the Bush administration.  But since the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day, he's been emphasizing their similarities.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Veteran Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut announced Wednesday he will retire at the end of this term. Dodd was expected to have a tough re-election fight. His departure and that of his Democratic colleague Byron Dorgan of South Dakota will test Senate Democrats in the 2010 elections.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[With a number of prominent lawmakers announcing they will not seek re-election, what does the political landscape look like for the 2010 congressional elections?]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Democrat Byron Dorgan of North Dakota announced Wednesday that he would not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate, ending a 30-year congressional career. Dorgan says he was confident of winning re-election, but the prospect of serving another term in the Senate was too much of a commitment.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Two Democratic Senators, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, have announced they will not seek re-election this fall. Also, the failed attack on Northwest flight 253 continues to have political ramifications.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The more you look at the political questions for 2010 the more they all look like one question: Will President Obama and the Democrats continue to lose altitude from their 2006-08 highs and pay a price in the midterms?

History and current circumstan...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Congress is still on holiday break, but President Obama and congressional leaders are at work starting to merge the House and Senate health care overhaul bills. Congress watchers say looking back at how the debate got to this point may provide some important clues as to where it might lead.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[After the failed attempt Christmas Day to blow up a domestic airplane near in Detroit, President Obama ordered a full review of the security systems that should have prevented the would-be bomber from boarding a U.S.-bound plane. The president heard from his national security team Tuesday about what they learned.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown shares with NPR's Steve Inskeep the three best things she has read lately. A Great Depression-era diary, a profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and an analysis of terrorist prosecution make the cut.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, a five-term Democrat whose political stock began falling after the financial meltdown and his failed 2008 presidential bid, has decided not to seek re-election in November, Democratic officials told The Associated Press early Wednesday.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Middle East experts see some progress, but Arab-Israeli conflict hinders the president from matching early expectations.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When Republicans go looking for leaders, Texas has long been one of their first stops. One of the newest stars there is Joe Straus, who is just finishing his first year as speaker of the Texas House. But whether he will appeal to a party pushed further to the right remains to be seen.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As census workers prepare for the count, politicians are gearing up for a fight in the states over federal funds and seats in Congress.]]></description>
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<title>Tad Friend: The art parties of Phyllis Diller.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When a visitor was shown into Phyllis Diller&#8217;s mansion, in Brentwood, the other evening, Diller rose carefully from a settee. &#8220;Have a Martini,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You have to look at the art, and it helps.&#8221; She was wearing one of her trademark yellow fright&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Lauren Collins: The battle between Fox News and Time Warner.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers returning to the city and its tabloids last week were greeted by a pair of reassuringly belligerent ads. Readers of Monday&#8217;s Post encountered first a notice from the Fox Broadcasting Company. &#8220;ATTENTION! STARTING JANUARY 1ST, TIME WARNER CABLE MAY STOP CARRYING FOX 5,&#8221; it&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama and the left.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[8220;All violent feelings have the same effect,&#8221; John Ruskin wrote, in one of his most famous essays. &#8220;They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the &#8216;Pathetic Fallacy.&#8217; &#8221; Ruskin published &#8220;Of the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ben McGrath: Urban arborists learn how to cut down a tree.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, after a holiday party, an amateur arborist spied a linden-tree branch extending vulnerably out over East Third Street. Somewhat in his cups, and fearing that a passerby might tug on the branch and end up stripping the tree of bark, the arborist made an executive decision&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Rebecca Mead: What Do You Call It?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In retrospect, it might be recognized as a troubling harbinger that, ten years ago, no consensus could be reached in this country on what to call the decade upon which we were about to embark. The ohs? The double-ohs? The zeros? The zips? The nadas? The naughties? As the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Rebecca Mead: Liv Ullman, &#x26;#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire,&#x26;#8221; and the Women&#x26;#8217;s Refugee Commission.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Liv Ullmann&#8212;actor, director, muse&#8212;has been in town for her production of &#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire,&#8221; at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the other day she dropped by the Chanin Building, on East Forty-second Street, to perform a role for which she is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Lizzie Widdicombe: Matador tailor Justo Algaba and the Metropolitan Opera&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Carmen.&#x26;#8221;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Justo Algaba, one of the world&#8217;s most respected matador tailors, was in town the other day from Madrid, where he has a two-story shop devoted to the production of matador outfits, called trajes de luce (&#8220;suits of light&#8221;), because of their shimmery, multicolored adornments. Algaba&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Why the health care bill is worth passing.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reforming America&#8217;s health-insurance system was never going to be an easy task, given people&#8217;s natural aversion to change (not to mention Republicans&#8217; aversion to doing anything that might help Barack Obama). But what&#8217;s made the task even more difficult is that American&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Rebecca Mead: Victor Pinchuk enters the art scene.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are a number of phrases that are typically used to identify Victor Pinchuk, who flew into town last week to attend a party at the Gramercy Park Hotel. &#8220;The second-richest man in Ukraine&#8221; is one of them; &#8220;the owner of six television stations and the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ian Parker: Christopher Plummer returns to the Algonquin Hotel.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For some years in the nineteen-fifties, Christopher Plummer lived in the Algonquin Hotel, on West Forty-fourth Street. One morning last week, a few days before his eightieth birthday, he returned there, from his home, in southwestern Connecticut, and took a round booth at the back of the dining&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Crisis in the Tiger Woods business.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A recent issue of Forbes features a full-page ad for the consulting firm Accenture with Tiger Woods striding through tall grass. The tagline reads, &#8220;The road to high performance isn&#8217;t always paved.&#8221; To which the obvious rejoinder these days is &#8220;Sometimes it runs straight&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>George Packer: Obama in Oslo.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thorbj&#248;rn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in presenting the Peace Prize to Barack Obama last week, quoted the previous African-American recipient, Martin Luther King, Jr., and added, &#8220;Mr. President, we are happy to see that through your presence here so much of Dr&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ian Parker: Michaele and Tareq Salahi and gate-crashing.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Selma Fonseca, a Brazilian in New York, calculates that she has gate-crashed more than two thousand parties. She is writing a book largely on that subject&#8212;although, as she said last week, &#8220;I never felt like I was crashing. I saw it as: I want to go&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hendrik Hertzberg: The Afghanistan strategy.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom&#8212;the reigning clich&#233;&#8212;happens to be true. President Obama did not pretend otherwise in his address at West Point last&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Alec Wilkinson: Tommy Tutone&#x26;#8217;s Jim Keller makes a comeback.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you want a license to perform music by Philip Glass, you have to call Glass&#8217;s company, Dunvagen Music Publishers, whose director is Jim Keller. Keller is fifty-five, tall and lanky, and is also a musician&#8212;he sings and plays the guitar&#8212;and he recently&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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