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		<title>The Lost Symbol Runner-Up to The Da Vinci Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Shoemaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Brown&#8217;s new novel The Lost Symbol picks up right where The Da Vinci Code left off in another thrilling, puzzle-solving, authorities-eluding mystery.  The only difference is that it&#8217;s set in the capital of the United States of America, Washington D.C., a city which this reviewer had the pleasure of visiting twice this summer.  Brown&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then Spock Punched Chewie While Edward Cullen Thumbed His Nose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karah Boodt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding Community at the Comic-Con By Karah Boodt 40: The number of years Comic-Con International in San Diego has operated. 4.5: Number of days in July that fans flood the San Diego convention center. 6,000: The amount of bodies that can be seated in the centerâ€™s largest room, Hall H, without the intervention of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prize Winner Falls Short in Wandering Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 07:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Fike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel prize in literature is reserved for authors whose bodies of work span decades and demonstrate not only a proficiency for the written word, but also an understanding of human nature and emotion that goes beyond convention. Last year the prize was awarded to Jean-Maire Gustave Le Clezio of France, an author who not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weltschmerz, Octomom, and Wingnut the Anarchist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come from the emo-generation.  The generation of skinny pants, My Chemical Romance, and equating choosing a major with an &#8220;existential crisis.&#8221;  Despite the recent proliferation of angst in American culture, it&#8217;s Germany that has made the entire histrionic self-reflective process possible. The German language welcomes almost as many types of angst as High School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fine Art of Reading Under the Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>G.D. Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most influential and enduring literary movements in history have been sustained by the marriage between Mary Jane and discontented scribes.  For example, many of the icons of the Beat Generation used marijuana (among other drugs) to put words on the page.  Before that, Poe engaged in a little opium use.  Absinthe, cocaine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Napoleon and U.S. Immigration Policies Have in Common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geography. Gee-Og-Graph-Phee. Four syllables to describe the study of 194 countries, seven continents, and four oceans. Endlessly boring in seventh-grade, geography becomes increasingly interesting when Euro pean history rolls around in the course of one’s study (oh Napoleon). Memorization of capitals and rivers transforms into the study of the human impact on geography. You learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does it all mean, Tim?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential candidacy inspired millions the year before his victory in November. On the 4th, when it became clear that the nation&#8217;s first African American president had been elected, many groups had cause for celebration. For veterans of the civil rights movement, it seemed like the final barrier had been cleared. For children from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What?  He&#8217;s Just Not That Into Me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I would buy a book titled He’s Just Not That Into You. Who needs a book to insult you and make you question your judgment about relationships? Everyone. Since I flipped through it at a used bookstore and decided it was worth the $4.00, I have passed my copy of He’s Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between horror and desire, love and brutality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Goffeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Review of The Torturer&#8217;s Wife, by Thomas Glave City Lights Publishers, Dec. 2008 www.citylights.com/ When I was a Freshman in high school, my world history class watched Steven Spielberg&#8217;s masterpiece Schindler&#8217;s List. This was considered a pretty big deal for a class full of 14 and 15-year-olds; we had to have permission slips signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bond, Brutalism, Bathos, Part. II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Connor Mendenhall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[II. &#8220;Devil May Care,&#8221; the latest post-Fleming James Bond novel, is anotherÂ &#8221;horribly efficient&#8221;Â contribution to the Bond canon. British authorÂ Sebastian Faulks, better known for literary works like his novelÂ &#8221;Birdsong,&#8221; cranked outÂ his bit of the Bond saga in a mere six weeks.Â It&#8217;s not hard to tell. The story reads as if Faulks sat down with aÂ stack of [...]]]></description>
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