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		<title>What are the implications for cable news amplifying a divide?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bauder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Amplifying the nation&#8217;s political division has been good business for Fox News Channel and MSNBC during this season of anger — but it may come at a price.

President Barack Obama has complained about a coarsening of political dialogue and cable news cycles where &#8220;the loudest, shrillest voices get the most attention.&#8221; After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the implications for cable TV news amplifying a divide?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bauder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Amplifying the nation&#8217;s political division has been good business for Fox News Channel and MSNBC during this season of anger — but it may come at a price.

President Barack Obama has complained about a coarsening of political dialogue and cable news cycles where &#8220;the loudest, shrillest voices get the most attention.&#8221; After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras&#8217; interim government raids media outlets after suspending civil liberties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras&#8217; coup-installed government has silenced two key dissident broadcasters hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Dozens of soldiers raided the offices of Radio Globo on Monday. Officials have also shut down the Channel 36 television station, which is broadcasting only a test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras restricts civil liberties, issues ultimatum to Brazil; Zelaya calls for mass marches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Interim government leaders have suspended constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties in a pre-emptive strike against widespread rebellion Monday, three months to the day since they ousted President Manuel Zelaya in a military-backed coup.

Zelaya supporters said they would ignore the decree issued late Sunday and march in the streets as planned. Some already had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Republicans finish convention, look ahead to 2010 races for governor, US Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The Republican race to challenge liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat next year is shaping up as a likely contest between a socially conservative state lawmaker and a former Silicon Valley chief executive whose views are barely known to GOP voters in the state.

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras&#8217; interim government silences dissident broadcasters after suspending civil liberties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras&#8217; coup-installed government silenced two key dissident broadcasters on Monday just hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Dozens of soldiers raided the offices of Radio Globo. Officials also shut down Channel 36 television station, leaving it broadcasting only a test pattern.

Rene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil liberties groups: Police overreacted to G-20 protesters, should have focused on vandals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rubinkam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — Police used all the nonlethal tools at their disposal to thwart protesters at the Group of 20 summit this week, firing bean bags, hurling canisters of smoke and pepper spray, using flash-bang grenades and batons and deploying a high-tech sound-blasting device meant to push back crowds.

It was all a bit much for civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man pleads guilty to having child pornography on computer at border</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Rathke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.

Sebastien Boucher, 32 of Ascutney, also agreed to help federal agents access his computer so it could be searched, presumably giving up his password.
Boucher, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands opposed to G-20 policies march in Pittsburgh, shout at summit site from afar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramit Plushnick-masti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through the downtown area on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move.

Dozens of black-clad anarchists were conspicuous among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi says House will consider Senate funding scheme for health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — House Democrats are considering a tax on high-cost insurance plans to help pay for health care overhaul that tops President Barack Obama&#8217;s domestic agenda.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday the tax is &#8220;under consideration&#8221; as Democrats search for consensus within their ranks before taking a bill to the House floor later this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House lawmakers vow to shine light on secrets of the Federal Reserve in bipartisan push</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Flaherty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — House lawmakers want to pry open the books of the famously secretive Federal Reserve with legislation that would subject the central bank to a sweeping congressional audit.

The effort is overwhelmingly bipartisan. Hardline conservatives and liberal Democrats have banded together in their criticism of the Fed as a major power broker in the financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government-sponsored health insurance plan to face crucial Senate committee votes</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/government-sponsored-health-insurance-plan-to-face-crucial-senate-committee-votes-178583/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Advocates for a public insurance plan — the idea that has generated the most passion in the high-decibel health care debate — are pressing for a crucial test vote in the Senate Finance Committee.

Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Chuck Schumer of New York said Thursday they want a full debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finance committee senators to offer proposals Friday to create gov&#8217;t option</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/finance-committee-senators-to-offer-proposals-friday-to-create-govt-option-178213/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Two top Democrats say they&#8217;ll offer proposals to create a government-sponsored health insurance plan to the Senate Finance Committee on Friday.

Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Chuck Schumer of New York they expect the committee to take a roll call vote on the issue. Chairman Max Baucus omitted a public option from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats try to win support from seniors for overhaul without alienating drug companies</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/democrats-try-to-win-support-from-seniors-for-overhaul-without-alienating-drug-companies-178090/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — For the moment, the health care fight is all about older folks.

Democrats agonized Thursday over how to soothe worried seniors but decided one idea was too risky because it could antagonize the powerful drug industry whose support is critically needed for President Barack Obama&#8217;s broader overhaul.
The Senate Finance Committee defeated a Democratic amendment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How conservative links helped ACORN &#8216;pimp and hooker&#8217; undercover videos became big news</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/how-conservative-links-helped-acorn-pimp-and-hooker-undercover-videos-became-big-news-176955/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Pritchard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Much of America discovered James O&#8217;Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers.

But as far back as 2006 — well before the videos became a national sensation and conservative rallying cry — the fresh-faced O&#8217;Keefe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats and Republicans spar over health care bill&#8217;s effect on seniors</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/democrats-and-republicans-spar-over-health-care-bills-effect-on-seniors-176611/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sweeping health care legislation cleared its first hurdles in the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday as Democrats turned back a series of proposed changes by Republicans who attacked it as a threat to Medicare.

Yet even as they prevailed on politically charged votes, majority Democrats also tacitly conceded one point — that despite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration tries to reclaim financial overhaul debate as banks push back hard</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-administration-tries-to-reclaim-financial-overhaul-debate-as-banks-push-back-hard-176064/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Flaherty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he supports revisions to the administration&#8217;s financial reform plan that were proposed by Rep. Barney Frank.

Frank, a liberal Massachusetts Democrat, wants to pare back a plan to establish a new consumer protection agency to address concerns raised by neighborhood banks and other lawmakers. Frank supports creation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Democrats propose tougher government tests in counterterrorism surveillance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Margasak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, for a second straight day, frustrated Democratic lawmakers Wednesday by declining to say whether it backs their demands for more civil liberties safeguards in anti-terrorism surveillance and property seizures.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee kept pressing Assistant Attorney General David Kris to go beyond previous administration statements that it supports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration wants to continue law authorizing terrorism wiretaps and subpoenas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Margasak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration promised Congress on Tuesday to negotiate stronger privacy protections for Americans under terrorism surveillance but insisted on retaining current authority to track suspects and obtain records.

Liberals on the House Judiciary Committee were left unsatisfied, clearly wanting the administration to go further and pledge to curb what they consider abuses of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dem chairman calls for health care assistance for families as Senate committee begins work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Bidding for support from Democrats as well as a single Republican, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee gaveled open a long-awaited debate over health care Tuesday with fresh plans to reduce costs on working-class families and impose new obligations on the insurance industry.

&#8220;This is our opportunity to make history,&#8221; said Sen. Max [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Finance committee starts work on &#8216;common-sense&#8217; plan to expand coverage</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senate-finance-committee-starts-work-on-common-sense-plan-to-expand-coverage-175278/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — After months of closed-door wrangling, the Senate Finance committee has finally started work on a sweeping health care overhaul.

Chairman Max Baucus calls his proposal a &#8220;common-sense plan&#8221; that takes the best ideas from both sides and is designed to get the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate.
The plan by the Montana Democrat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus sweetens bill to make premiums more affordable as Finance panel prepares to vote</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/baucus-sweetens-bill-to-make-premiums-more-affordable-as-finance-panel-prepares-to-vote-174929/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senators challenging the latest proposed health care overhaul already have won concessions that include reducing a penalty for Americans who don&#8217;t buy insurance, and hundreds of other changes are up for debate as a powerful committee takes up President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.

The Senate Finance Committee — the last of five panels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus changes health bill to address affordability concerns of fellow senators</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was revising his sweeping health care bill Monday to address serious concerns from fellow Democrats and a key Republican about insurance costs, part of his ongoing struggle to deliver on President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.

The changes — which include possibly halving a penalty for people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Max Baucus changes his health care bill to reflect concerns of Democrats, key Republican</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sen-max-baucus-changes-his-health-care-bill-to-reflect-concerns-of-democrats-key-republican-174548/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was revising his sweeping health care bill Monday to address serious concerns from fellow Democrats and a key Republican about insurance costs, part of his ongoing struggle to deliver on President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.

The changes — which include possibly halving a penalty for people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus changing health bill to address affordability concerns of fellow Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was revising his sweeping health care bill Monday to address serious concerns from fellow Democrats and a key Republican about insurance costs, part of his ongoing struggle to deliver on President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.

The changes came a day ahead of a committee session beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate committee that&#8217;s choke point on health care bill is next battle for divided Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Keep going. You don&#8217;t have to fix all of it now. Just please don&#8217;t let it stall. That&#8217;s the essence of the message that Senate Democratic leaders have for their Finance Committee senators, who plan to start voting Tuesday on a remake of the nation&#8217;s health care system.

Democrats on the pivotal committee are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irving Kristol, political thinker, writer and godfather of neoconservatism, dead at 89</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillel Italie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, has died. He was 89.

&#8220;His wisdom, wit, good humor and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.

&#8220;His wisdom, wit, good humor and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More challenges await lawmaker as Obama pushes to get health overhaul done</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats see plenty of room for improvement in a sweeping health care overhaul bill, starting with changes to a tax on high-cost insurance policies that could hit middle-class Americans hard.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled his much-anticipated bill this week, and senators who&#8217;ve been waiting for months lined up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Baucus incurs criticism from both sides in search for bipartisanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — His fellow Democrats shuddered and Republicans sneered when Sen. Max Baucus unveiled legislation to remake the health care system. Now, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee gamely insists that it can pass the Senate, core provisions intact.

That&#8217;s precisely what many Democrats are hoping to avoid, and not even an attempt to choreograph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Travers, blond beatnik in 1960s folk anthem trio Peter, Paul and Mary, dies at 72</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam anti-war movement, racial discrimination and more, died after a yearslong battle with leukemia. She was 72.

The band&#8217;s publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died Wednesday at Danbury [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new Prime Minister Hatoyama to make diplomatic debut in US</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s new prime minister will make his diplomatic debut next week with a visit to the United Nations and an economic summit meeting in Pittsburgh, officials said Thursday, as a poll showed voters have high expectations for his new Cabinet.

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is also hoping to meet with President Barack Obama. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduran presidential candidates signal support for proposed deal to restore ousted leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marianela Jimenez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Four presidential candidates pledged Wednesday to support a proposed deal that would restore the ousted Honduran leader to power.

The candidates released their statement after meeting with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the chief mediator in the conflict who has warned that the Nov. 29 elections would have no credibility unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Travers of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dead after battle with cancer at 72</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Mary Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit &#8220;Puff (The Magic Dragon),&#8221; died in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.

The band&#8217;s publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital.
Bandmate Peter Yarrow said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Travers of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dead after battle with cancer at 62</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DANBURY, Conn. — Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

The band&#8217;s publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 62 and had battled leukemia for several years.
Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus&#8217; health care plan marks pivotal moment in debate _ but no GOP support for compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — His calls for compromise rebuffed by Republicans, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee unveiled sweeping legislation Wednesday to remake the nation&#8217;s costly health care system largely along the lines outlined by President Barack Obama.

Sen. Max Baucus&#8217; proposal, months in the making, drew quick criticism from liberals who said his vision was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Parks, Ben Franklin, Rush Limbaugh? Texas may change must-know figures for students</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>April Castro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas — Does civil rights activist Cesar Chavez belong alongside Benjamin Franklin as an example of a model American citizen? Should Texas schoolchildren be required to identify Rush Limbaugh? How big a place does the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall — most famous for his victory in integrating the nation&#8217;s schools — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Rep. Capuano says he will run to succeed Kennedy; targets rival Coakley as untested</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano said Wednesday he will run for the late Edward M. Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat, arguing he is the best candidate to continue his fellow Democrat&#8217;s liberal philosophical tradition and better tested in the national political arena than leading rival Martha Coakley.

The blunt, plainspoken former mayor of Somerville said he plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Finance version of health care bill unveiled, would cost US over $856B in next 10 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has released his long-awaited health overhaul bill, moving forward with a landmark, $856 billion bill even though no Republicans are on board.

The measure would make major changes to the nation&#8217;s $2.5 trillion health care system including requiring all individuals to purchase health care or pay a fine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new prime minister names Cabinet and promises sweeping changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Longtime opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama took office as prime minister on Wednesday, naming a new Cabinet and vowing to rebuild the economy and refocus Japan&#8217;s place on the world stage with his largely untested party.

Hatoyama&#8217;s victory over the conservatives, who have governed Japan almost nonstop since World War II, marks a major turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hatoyama elected as Japan&#8217;s prime minister, names Cabinet, marking break from past</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Longtime opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama took office as prime minister on Wednesday, naming a new Cabinet and vowing to rebuild the economy and refocus Japan&#8217;s place on the world stage with his largely untested left-of-center party.

Hatoyama&#8217;s victory over the conservatives, who have governed Japan almost nonstop since World War II, marks a major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new leader says he wants to build trust relationship with Obama, see economy improve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s new prime minister says he wants to build a relationship of trust with President Barack Obama, but has no intention to back down on plans to push for a review of the U.S. military presence here.

Yukio Hatoyama also said he wants to see quick improvements in Japan&#8217;s struggling economy.
Hatoyama has said he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hatoyama elected as Japan&#8217;s prime minister, names Cabinet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Longtime opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama was elected prime minister and installed his new Cabinet Wednesday, promising to reinvigorate Japan&#8217;s economy and shake up government with his left-of-center party after more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by conservatives.

Hatoyama&#8217;s victory marks a major turning point for Japan, which is facing its worst economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new prime minister announces Cabinet; picks veteran for finance minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has announced his Cabinet lineup, picking a veteran lawmaker and party ally as finance minister and a fellow party leader as his foreign minister.

Hatoyama, who took office Wednesday, named Katsuya Okada as foreign minister and Hirohisa Fujii as finance minister. Though Okada has never held a Cabinet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus&#8217; decision to unveil health bill with no GOP support dims chances for bipartisan deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Max Baucus&#8217; decision to release his long-awaited health care overhaul bill with no Republicans on board dims the chances for a bipartisan compromise on President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.

The Senate Finance Committee chairman insisted Tuesday that he&#8217;ll keep negotiating with the three Republicans and two fellow Democrats who&#8217;ve been in closed-door [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former opposition leader Hatoyama elected as Japan&#8217;s prime minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Longtime opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama was elected prime minister Wednesday, promising to reinvigorate Japan&#8217;s economy and shake up government with his left-of-center party after more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by conservatives.

Hatoyama&#8217;s victory marks a major turning point for Japan, which is facing its worst economic slowdown since World War II, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s parliament convenes to formally select Hatoyama as prime minister</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/japans-parliament-convenes-to-formally-select-hatoyama-as-prime-minister-169679/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s parliament has convened to formally select former opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama as prime minister, following his party&#8217;s landslide election victory last month.

Parliament convened Wednesday in a special session for the vote. Hatoyama&#8217;s left-of-center party controls 308 of the 480 seats in parliament&#8217;s lower chamber, which selects the prime minister.
Prime Minister Taro Aso [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus moving ahead on health care without GOP support, Rangel says Obama&#8217;s price tag too low</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/baucus-moving-ahead-on-health-care-without-gop-support-rangel-says-obamas-price-tag-too-low-169612/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Caught off guard, congressional Democrats are grappling with President Barack Obama&#8217;s unexpected call for immediate access to insurance for those with pre-existing medical conditions, as well as richer Medicare drug benefits than envisioned in early versions of health care legislation.

Additionally, Obama&#8217;s pledge in last week&#8217;s prime-time speech to hold the overall cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s prime minister, Cabinet resign</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/japans-prime-minister-cabinet-resign-to-pave-way-for-new-government-169603/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Taro Aso and his Cabinet resigned Wednesday to pave the way for parliament to elect Yukio Hatoyama as the country&#8217;s next leader.

The top officials resigned after holding their final Cabinet meeting early Wednesday morning, the prime minister&#8217;s office said.
The resignations were a formality so that parliament&#8217;s lower house, now controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Senate negotiator to move ahead on health care without bipartisan agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate&#8217;s top health care negotiator says he&#8217;s moving ahead on health care legislation without the bipartisan agreement he&#8217;d hoped for. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said late Tuesday he&#8217;ll unveil a formal proposal on Wednesday, and move to committee deliberations next week. The Montana Democrat had spent months negotiating behind closed [...]]]></description>
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