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		<title>Health Care Reform: Partisan Politics at its Best (or Worst)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s vote was, indeed, as President Barack Obama put it, answering ‘the Call of History.’ Unfortunately for him, it was, in the eyes of every House Republican and a significant portion of House Democrats, the wrong answer...]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Afraid of the Big, Bad Politicians?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we can’t necessarily draw any conclusions from this particular finding, we can ponder its potential significance when coupled with the fact that the second most common response was something to the effect of “I’m not particularly good with politics.”

Two other examples of this are the Movement and the Council for Equity and Community (CEC). The former had over 70 attendees at its meeting in the middle of November following the elections and the bias-related incidents during that time, yet its consistent membership is back to the comparatively small numbers of the months previous.

The latter experienced a similar peak in attendance for the town hall meeting (which was less of a town hall meeting than a several-hundred-person round table discussion) following the same incidents, but once again finds its attendance at about the same levels as before the incidents.]]></description>
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		<title>The Mindless Contingent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s entirely possible that you’re reading this before November 4, 2008, but the likelihood is that you’re reading this after. Regardless, you will vote in an election sometime in the future, so the message is the same. The electoral system — nay, the whole political system — in the United States is broken.]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Water; Kill the Whales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an important time, for the United States of America and Lehigh University alike. In fact, it is so important a time that I had difficulty deciding what topic to choose as the focal point of this issue's article...]]></description>
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		<title>Doubts About Scouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Parks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1912, approximately 1.7 million Boy Scouts have earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the organization. According to the web site of Boy Scouts of America, this figure represents only 5 percent of all Boy Scouts, although the number of boys attaining the rank during my scouting career seems to have increased while the qualifications for the award and the extent to which those boys receiving the award have greatly diminished...]]></description>
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