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		<title>Why China&#8217;s developmental state says no to liberalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in Britain and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and frames larger views of political developments in the non-West. It accounts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Mount Fuji&#8217;s fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mount Fuji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNESCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Heritage Site]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chances have increased that Mount Fuji will become a World Heritage site in June following an April 30 recommendation by a UNESCO panel. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) noted that the volcano is a national symbol of Japan and blends religious and artistic traditions. Mount Fuji is regarded as a symbol of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery only benefiting a few</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Cabinet Office on May 16 announced that Japan&#8217;s real gross domestic product (GDP) in the January-March period increased 0.9 percent, or an annualized 3.5 percent, from the previous quarter. But ordinary households have yet to feel tangible benefits from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s economic policy, the main component of which is massive monetary easing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clock is running out for some key Asian reformers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pesek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections. The son of former President Corazon Aquino looks set to control both houses of Congress, giving him a mandate to continue his reform policies. His biggest worry now is making them stick. In the first half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five myths about Benghazi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hirsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The events surrounding the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, look dramatically different depending on your politics. Republicans tend to see a cover-up and a scandal. Democrats see an attempt to damage President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. A Pew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How modern nationalism gave birth to terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liah Greenfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer almost certainly does not lie in Dagestan, where the brothers lived before moving to the United States, or in the two wars fought in Chechnya in the last 20 years. Instead, a key to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Abenomics hurts women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shihoko Goto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s acknowledgement of the unleashed potential of women should herald a new beginning for female empowerment in Japan. Yet his proposals to encourage more women to remain in the workforce actually may do more to hurt their prospects by merely reinforcing existing prejudices toward female workers and the role of women in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Substitute question marks for exclamation marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Thakur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chemical warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A terrible tragedy is unfolding in (fill in the name of your favorite trouble spot). Something must be done. This (choose from sending troops, air strikes, enforcing a no fly zone, arming rebels) is something. Therefore it must be done. Such is what passes for much of policy advice by some analysts, many unembarrassed by [...]]]></description>
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