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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; George Will</title>
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		<title>The chance to underscore political self-dealing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama veto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political self-dealing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By forcing Democrats to dramatize their perverse priorities in order to halt a government shutdown, U.S. Republicans can turn to completing the neutering of the Obama presidency.]]></description>
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		<title>When the fury of isolationism roamed America</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/29/commentary/when-the-fury-of-isolationism-roamed-america/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-the-fury-of-isolationism-roamed-america</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American isolationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Those Angry Days"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is preposterous to equate today's mild debates in America about foreign policy with the furies unleashed by, and against, real isolationism before World War II.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bay of Pigs operation was a perfect failure</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/15/commentary/the-bay-of-pigs-operation-was-a-perfect-failure/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-bay-of-pigs-operation-was-a-perfect-failure</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/15/commentary/the-bay-of-pigs-operation-was-a-perfect-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay of Pigs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The CIA should release its final volume of its official history of the Bay of Pigs invasioni. America needs all the caution its history of misadventures should encourage.]]></description>
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		<title>Syria presents a constitutional moment for U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/11/commentary/syria-presents-a-constitutional-moment-for-u-s/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syria-presents-a-constitutional-moment-for-u-s</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/11/commentary/syria-presents-a-constitutional-moment-for-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No congressional vote about Syria can damage the U.S. presidency as much as Barack Obama has done by overreaching.]]></description>
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		<title>Voices from the scarlet calamity of World War II</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/01/commentary/voices-from-the-scarlet-calamity-of-world-war-ii/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=voices-from-the-scarlet-calamity-of-world-war-ii</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/01/commentary/voices-from-the-scarlet-calamity-of-world-war-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Western Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[World War II's reverberations will roll down the centuries in its geopolitical consequences, and in the literature it elicited in letters and in histories like Rick Atkinson's trilogy on the liberation of Western Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>Court rebukes flouting of nuclear waste policy</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/22/commentary/court-rebukes-flouting-of-nuclear-waste-policy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=court-rebukes-flouting-of-nuclear-waste-policy</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/22/commentary/court-rebukes-flouting-of-nuclear-waste-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yucca Mountain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays the U.S government leavens its usual quotient of incompetence with large dollops of illegality, as evidenced by the "law-flouting" Nuclear Regulatory Commission.]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to Egypt&#8217;s preferable state of tyranny</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/16/commentary/returning-to-egypts-preferable-state-of-tyranny/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=returning-to-egypts-preferable-state-of-tyranny</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/16/commentary/returning-to-egypts-preferable-state-of-tyranny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morsi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi knows neither Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s advice that &#8220;great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities&#8221; nor the description of Martin Van Buren as a politician who &#8220;rowed to his object with muffled oars.&#8221; Having won just 52 percent of the vote, Morsi pursued his objective &#8212; putting Egypt irrevocably on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never mind Obama&#8217;s hedge on the rule of law</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/07/commentary/never-mind-obamas-hedge-on-the-rule-of-law/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=never-mind-obamas-hedge-on-the-rule-of-law</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/07/commentary/never-mind-obamas-hedge-on-the-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political convenience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule of law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama acts as if he can simply post a "never mind" notice on the White House website if he finds a law's details politically inconvenient.]]></description>
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		<title>At the Battle of Gettysburg, choices mattered</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/01/commentary/at-the-battle-of-gettysburg-choices-mattered/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=at-the-battle-of-gettysburg-choices-mattered</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/01/commentary/at-the-battle-of-gettysburg-choices-mattered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Civil War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, was not the first example of "total war." But it did show why choices matter in U.S. history.]]></description>
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		<title>Time caught up with the 1965 Voting Rights Act</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/29/commentary/time-caught-up-with-the-1965-voting-rights-act/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=time-caught-up-with-the-1965-voting-rights-act</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/29/commentary/time-caught-up-with-the-1965-voting-rights-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting Rights Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Progressives resent progress &#8212; such as the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights &#8212; that renders anachronistic once-valid reasons for government control.]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes of Watergate in IRS scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/16/commentary/echoes-of-watergate-in-irs-scandal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=echoes-of-watergate-in-irs-scandal</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/16/commentary/echoes-of-watergate-in-irs-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watergate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The nature of President Barack Obama's administration is being clarified as revelations about IRS targeting of conservative groups merge with myriad Benghazi mendacities.]]></description>
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		<title>Korematsu highlights danger of waiving constitutional rights</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/27/commentary/korematsu-highlights-danger-of-waiving-constitutional-rights/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=korematsu-highlights-danger-of-waiving-constitutional-rights</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/27/commentary/korematsu-highlights-danger-of-waiving-constitutional-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[constiutional rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korematsu case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 1944 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of the wartime power to intern "enemy" racial groups provides a sober reminder after the Boston bombings.]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher buoyed by vigorous virtues</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/11/commentary/margaret-thatcher-buoyed-by-vigorous-virtues/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=margaret-thatcher-buoyed-by-vigorous-virtues</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/11/commentary/margaret-thatcher-buoyed-by-vigorous-virtues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thatcherism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.K.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher had the smooth surface of a porcelain figurine, but her decisiveness made her England's most formidable woman since Elizabeth I.]]></description>
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		<title>William Zinsser and the art of good writing</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/16/commentary/william-zinsser-and-the-art-of-good-writing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=william-zinsser-and-the-art-of-good-writing</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/16/commentary/william-zinsser-and-the-art-of-good-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Zinsser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Careful writers will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser's essays for brains whose circuitry has not been shaped by 140-character tweets.]]></description>
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		<title>Government smacks down the Pop-Tart terrorist</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/13/commentary/government-smacks-down-the-pop-tart-terrorist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=government-smacks-down-the-pop-tart-terrorist</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/13/commentary/government-smacks-down-the-pop-tart-terrorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Government is failing at core functions such as budgeting, yet it still empowers protectors who panic over Pop-Tart pistols and Hello Kitty bubble guns.]]></description>
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		<title>Once upon a time, Washington was even darker</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/11/commentary/once-upon-a-time-washington-was-even-darker/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=once-upon-a-time-washington-was-even-darker</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/11/commentary/once-upon-a-time-washington-was-even-darker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A book by the late Robert Bork, Richard Nixon's solicitor general, reminds us of Washington days that were darker than most people today can imagine.]]></description>
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		<title>Ground conditions favor a conservative revival</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/31/commentary/ground-conditions-favor-a-conservative-revival/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ground-conditions-favor-a-conservative-revival</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/31/commentary/ground-conditions-favor-a-conservative-revival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The agenda of Barack Obama, whose approval rating scores lower than that of the National Rifle Association, will stimulate a conservative revival.]]></description>
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		<title>Homestead Act: the door-opener to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of &#8220;the first comprehensive immigration law.&#8221; This is how the Homestead Act of 1862 is described by Blake Bell, historian at the Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice, Nebraska, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American colleges have free speech on the run</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university administration &#8212; acting as prosecutor, judge and jury &#8212; convicted him of &#8220;openly reading [a] book related to a historically and racially abhorrent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why shouldn&#8217;t pols treat voters like grownups?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In every year divisible by four, the dominant superstition of American politics &#8212; faith in the magic of presidential words and deeds &#8212; reaches an apogee that feeds national narcissism: Everything that happens anywhere is about us, is a response to something America did or did not do, and can be controlled by a president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In America, a tangled web of conflicting rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Elaine Huguenin, who with her husband operates Elane Photography in New Mexico, asks only to be let alone. But instead of being allowed a reasonable zone of sovereignty in which to live her life in accordance with her beliefs, she is being bullied by people wielding government power. In 2006, Vanessa Willock, who was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney poised to fix a GOP problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Conventions are the seventh-inning stretch of presidential politics, a pause to consider the interminable prelude and the coming climax. Republicans gathering in Tampa face an unusual election in which they do not have a substantial advantage concerning the most presidential subject, foreign policy. This is not because their nominee has weak foreign-policy credentials, which are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Extreme&#8217; choice makes Romney presidential</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When, in his speech accepting the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, Barry Goldwater said &#8220;extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice&#8221; and &#8220;moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue,&#8221; a media wit at the convention supposedly exclaimed, &#8220;Good God, Goldwater is going to run as Goldwater.&#8221; When Mitt Romney decided to run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autopsies shine light on NFL&#8217;s deadly problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready for some American football? First, however, are you ready for some autopsies? The opening of the NFL training camps coincided with the closing of the investigation into the April suicide by gunshot of Ray Easterling, 62, an eight-season NFL safety in the 1970s. The autopsy found moderately severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying begins at the top of the U.S. food chain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The huge humpback whale whose friendliness precipitated a surreal seven-year &#8212; so far &#8212; federal hunt for criminality surely did not feel put upon. Nevertheless, the unhinged U.S. government, with an obsession like that of Melville&#8217;s Ahab, has crippled Nancy Black&#8217;s scientific career, cost her more than &#36;100,000 in legal fees &#8212; so far &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pat on the back for bucking a LOST cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There they go again. Like those who say climate change is an emergency too obvious and urgent to allow for debate, some proponents of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, aka the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), say arguments against it are nonexistent. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beach Boys get around, a half-century on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Three hours before showtime, Brian Wilson says: &#8220;There is no Rhonda.&#8221; Sitting backstage, gathering strength for the evening&#8217;s 48-song, 150-minute concert, Wilson was not asked about her; he just volunteered this fact. The other members of the Beach Boys seem mildly surprised to learn that the 1965 song &#8220;Help Me, Rhonda&#8221; was about no one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not healthy to make a chief justice &#8216;worry&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism&#8217;s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, &#8220;I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.&#8221; TR was as mistaken about Holmes&#8217; spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217;. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipartisanship alive and well for the &#8216;entitled&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent in the United States. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in primary and secondary education; the McCain-Feingold speech rationing law (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act); an unfunded prescription drug entitlement; trouble-making by Fannie Mae [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consequences of the state&#8217;s proclivity to tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple&#8217;s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago, [...]]]></description>
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