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	<description>The interaction of the press and politics; public diplomacy, and daily absurdities.</description>
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		<title>Post Olympic News Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Olympics were many things to many people – but for some they were a terrific diversion from the world of American politics. What follows is a quick and by-no-means inclusive review of some of the events driving us to the Olympics coverage:

Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz joined with former NY Times Columnist and Palin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/post-olympic-news-blues/</link>
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		<title>les jeux sont finis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[      Who would have guessed that the Vancouver Winter Olympics would turn into an event of great national unity, and become what many felt was the best of all Olympic Games.  After all it had begun with some glitches and lousy weather?  John Furlong, the decent, tenacious and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/les-jeux-sont-finis/</link>
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		<title>Lunching at Sachsen Haus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Die Sachsen are the only people to have so far outmaneuvered the Olympic bureaucrats that have turned Vancouver into a security training ground for the next potential terrorist attack at a major world event.  The security chiefs of the next  Olympics in very vulnerable London must be shaking their heads wondering how they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/lunching-at-sachsen-haus/</link>
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		<title>The Games begin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     Arnold the Terminator was down on the Stanley Park seawall this morning at 7:00 to receive the Olympic torch from Steve Nash, run along the most spectacular urban stretch anywhere and pass it on to Sebastian Coe.  By mid-afternoon it will have arrived at the spectacular new aboriginal centre [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/the-games-begin/</link>
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		<title>Ukraine looks towards Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[      Viktor Yanukovich has apparently won the runoff election for president of Ukraine, thus tilting the European political map back towards the east, only 20 years after the events which seemed to be pushing it inexorably towards western Europe.  Now the European Union, which was adamant in not considering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/ukraine-looks-towards-russia/</link>
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		<title>Fox Presents: Fear and Loathing in America</title>
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. – Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

A visit to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/fox-presents-fear-and-loathing-in-america/</link>
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		<title>Snowless in Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the world’s winter sport athletes begin to sharpen their skates and wax their snowboards it seems that there is a minor glitch. God forgot to deliver the snow that Canadian Prime Minister Harper ordered for Cypress Mountain, site of the snowboarding, and three of the less prestigious skiing events. God’s lapse was perhaps due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/snowless-in-vancouver/</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts: The Victory of Anger Over Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ “The Mass. election was a bummer …The greatest concern I have is for the economy and social stability. Deep down my attitude          towards health reform, the environment, energy is &#8216;not my problem&#8217;.  I have health insurance, live in the country and won&#8217;t live long enough to run out of home heating oil or gasoline. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/massachusetts-the-victory-of-anger-over-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Eulogy for Kate McGarrigle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may not mean so much for the international readers, but Canadians of interest will know that one of their family died today, and the country will a bit more artificial without her.  Kate McGarrigle and her sister Anne had the right stuff for Canuckdom.  Born in Montreal in 1946 with mixed French [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/eulogy-for-kate-mcgarrigle/</link>
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		<title>Is Massachusetts Turning Red?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has apparently become surprisingly close. At least that is what the pundits are saying. Massachusetts has a health care program similar to the national program being hammered out in the Congress, allows same-sex marriage, voted overwhelmingly for Obama, and has not sent a Republican to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2010/is-massachusetts-turning-red/</link>
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