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	<title>The Great Debate</title>
	
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		<title>What Hollande can learn from Queen of Hearts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/21/what-hollande-can-learn-from-queen-of-hearts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Regenstreif</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eric chaney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european union]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[francois hollande]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pension]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20748</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So far there has been little to show for his economic policies. Some actions have backfired and others have not gone far enough.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>U.S. power: Down but still unrivaled</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/21/u-s-power-down-but-still-unrivaled/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/21/u-s-power-down-but-still-unrivaled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India GDP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20695</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Beijing does not threaten to counterbalance U.S. power as gravely as America’s economy threatens to become imbalanced on its own.]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Party opinion usurps public opinion</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/21/party-opinion-usurps-public-opinion/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/21/party-opinion-usurps-public-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[internal revenue service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20660</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Elections today are less and less about persuasion and more and more about mobilization.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>For Russia, Syria is not in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/20/for-russia-syria-is-not-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/20/for-russia-syria-is-not-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bashar al-assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[syria]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20635</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Moscow considers Syria different from its other allies in the Middle East because the outcome affects Russia's core strategic interests – including its global naval strategy and energy exports.]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conservatives versus the GOP</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/20/conservatives-versus-the-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/20/conservatives-versus-the-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movement conservatives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20600</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With Bush Revisionism in full flower, the movement conservatives and the Tea Party will have to slug it out again with the GOP establishment.]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Austerity is a moral issue</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/nicholas-wapshott/2013/05/17/austerity-is-a-moral-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/nicholas-wapshott/2013/05/17/austerity-is-a-moral-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Wapshott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[angela merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[braulio rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christine lagarde]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[george osborne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[international monetary fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/nicholas-wapshott/?p=379</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Europe’s economic turmoil is dragging the world economy down. Despite this destructive display of unnecessary masochism, many Americans still demand the sequester be allowed to continue slashing...]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>‘Reset’ on Iran now</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/16/reset-on-iran-now/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/16/reset-on-iran-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yousaf Butt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20562</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Evidence that sanctions are not achieving their purpose should give President Obama political breathing room to have negotiators put serious sanctions relief on the table – which could prove to be in...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A woman’s choice</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/16/a-womans-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/16/a-womans-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Taylor Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[angelina jolie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double prophylactic mastectomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gene mutation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20519</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie has taken the narrative back into a serious direction with one breathtaking article — reminding other women that they, too, have choices. Medical ones, but others as well.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What the IRS should be scrutinizing</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/15/what-the-irs-should-be-scrutinizing/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/15/what-the-irs-should-be-scrutinizing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Kuttner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[501(c) (3)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Koch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[internal revenue service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karl rove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax exempt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax haven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20479</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new round of IRS-bashing is likely raise new obstacles to the proper enforcement of rules for tax-exempt organizations, as well as a crackdown on offshore tax evasion used by very wealthy investors...]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Watergate: Are we there yet?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/15/watergate-are-we-there-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/15/watergate-are-we-there-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Garment</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[associated press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watergate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=20439</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I lived through Watergate, when my husband was special counsel to President Nixon. Last weekend’s news reports talked about scandal politics “sweeping Washington.” Come on, people. Get a grip.]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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