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		<title>A Night at the Movies in Newt Gingrich&#8217;s America (ca. 1994-98)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arne Glimcher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B.: I wrote the following in the mid-1990s, shortly after Newt Gingrich, brandishing his Contract With America, led Congressional Republicans to victory in the mid-term elections of 1994. I never did anything with it. Writing about movies and politics is strictly avocational with me. And then Gingrich&#8217;s ouster in 1998 seemed somehow to have placed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4587&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Notes on &#8220;Ozymandias&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sonnet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[percy bysshe shelley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Percy Bysshe Shelley published his &#8220;Ozymandias&#8221; in The Examiner, edited by his friend Leigh Hunt, on January 11, 1818 (#524 of the journal). It appeared under the pen-name &#8220;Glirastes.&#8221; His friend Horace Smith published a sonnet on the same theme in The Examiner for February 1, 1818 (reprinted below). The following passage from Diodorus Siculus&#8216;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4349&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Buried above ground&#8221;: Notes on a Poem by William Cowper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[insanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hatred and vengeance my eternal portion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cowper&#8217;s Tirocinium (1784) proves that he formed a low opinion of English public schools.† The severity of his judgment upon institutions where religious instruction was scanty and temptations to vice abounded is explicable without supposing that he was himself unhappy. —Dictionary of National Biography‡ *   *   * William Cowper (1731-1800) (pronounced &#8220;Cooper&#8221;), born at Berkhampstead, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4290&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Untroubling and untroubled&#8221;: Notes on a poem by John Clare</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/08/05/untroubling-and-untroubled-notes-on-a-poem-by-john-clare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Am]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wiliam empson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following anthology piece laid hold of me when I encountered it, some decades ago now, in Arthur Quiller-Couch&#8216;s Oxford Book of English Verse. It&#8217;s by John Clare, of course, born into poverty in 1793 in Helpstone, a village named as if somehow for the purpose of bringing about, in the ripeness of time, such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4212&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discoveries, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 03:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ben jonson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college hill review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick note today to acknowledge the new number of The College Hill Review, an excellent on-line quarterly edited by James Barsczc (et al). At the top of the page you&#8217;ll find a wonderful bit of work by the poet Mark Scott (author of Tactile Values and A Bedroom Occupation: Love Elegies): &#8220;Discoveries,&#8221; a collection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4155&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kinds of Rhyme: &#8220;She Walks in Beauty,&#8221; &#8220;Dulce et Decorum Est,&#8221; &#8220;Base Details,&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Blighters&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/05/08/kinds-of-rhyme-w-particular-attention-to-a-few-from-that-great-jangle-the-great-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 16:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[world war 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A relatively short bit today, illustrating a few kinds of rhyme, including (for starters) &#8220;conjunctive&#8221; and &#8220;disjunctive&#8221; rhymes. Those terms are not, so far as I know, in common use. But they serve a good enough turn. (I dropped &#8220;disjunctive rhyme&#8221; into Google Books and, as of this writing, came up with two results; &#8220;conjunctive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4069&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are days for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mortality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Larkin wrote the following poem—as his editor Anthony Thwaite tells us—on August 3, 1953. He later collected it in The Whitsun Weddings (1964), where it appears between &#8220;Take One Home for the Kiddies&#8221; and &#8220;MCMXIV.&#8221; &#8220;Days&#8221; What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=4048&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die&#8221;: Hardy&#8217;s &#8220;Neutral Tones&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/03/17/the-deadest-thing-alive-enough-to-have-strength-to-die-hardys-neutral-tones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, a glance at a familiar anthology piece by Thomas Hardy: &#8220;Neutral Tones.&#8221; I&#8217;m not certain we usually do justice to one feature of the poem: namely, the fact that it tells us that &#8220;love deceives.&#8221; This distinction might (or might not) seem a matter of great consequence, but I will take it seriously (some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3704&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s &#8220;unweeting way&#8221;; a few notes on Hardy.</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/02/04/gods-unweeting-way-a-few-notes-on-hardy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this entry I miss the New Year by a month or so. But laggard that I am, what excuse?—all the more given that Thomas Hardy collected the following poem first in Times&#8217;s Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909). &#8220;Now that the miscellany is brought together,&#8221; Hardy writes in his brief preface, &#8220;some lack of concord in pieces written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3912&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Highest Liveliness (Frost, Burke, Derrida, Foucault, et al)</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/01/31/our-highest-liveliness-frost-burke-derrida-foucault-et-al/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The academy has generated a good deal of heat but still relatively little light in its discussion of &#8220;personality&#8221; in poetry, 30 years notwithstanding. We might do better by engaging more general problems of literary &#8220;authority,&#8221; about which, as it happens, Robert Frost is quite illuminating. We needn&#8217;t confine ourselves to Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3893&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion is a very untenable ground: Thoreau&#8217;s Dead Horse</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/12/12/compassion-is-a-very-untenable-ground-thoreaus-dead-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compassion is a very untenable ground: Thoreau's Dead Horse<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3570&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the Emperor of Ice Cream?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think readers of Wallace Stevens&#8216;s lyric &#8220;The Emperor of Ice Cream&#8221; often miss the full significance of the line: &#8220;Let be be finale of seem.&#8221; And by way of glossing it I here offer, in a sense, a &#8220;vocational&#8221; reading of the poem. Which is of course only one possible reading of it. Others [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3808&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Mass of Morbid Melancholy and Apology&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/11/28/3816/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B.: Today I borrow shamelessly from the fine model Ian Wolcott sets up in his Marginalia series at The New Pslamanazar. Must my thoughts dwell night and day on my personal sins and blemishes, because I truly have them?—or may I sink and ignore them in order to be a decent social unit, and not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3816&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;At this unique distance from isolation&#8230;&#8221;: additional notes on Philip Larkin</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/11/13/at-this-unique-distance-from-isolation-additional-notes-on-philip-larkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and, whilst they remain in contact, all other points of each of the spheres are inert&#8230;&#8221;  —Emerson, &#8220;Experience&#8221; *   *   * &#8220;Talking in Bed&#8221; (with the last poem addressed in these pages) appears in Philip Larkin&#8216;s 1964 volume The Whitsun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3743&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;That vase&#8230;&#8221;: or, some notes on Philip Larkin</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/11/02/that-vase-or-some-notes-on-philip-larkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His biographer, Andrew Motion, tells us that Philip Larkin penned the following poem after a visit to his mother&#8217;s house in Loughborough, some 2 to 3 hours distant from his own residence in Hull. Anthony Thwaite, editor of Larkin&#8217;s Collected Poems (Farrar, Strauss &#38; Giroux, 1988) dates its composition precisely: 31 December 1958 (indicating that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&amp;blog=9628454&amp;post=3712&amp;subd=marksrichardson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would someone raise William Empson from the dead?</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/10/13/would-someone-raise-william-empson-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Frost, Freud, Nietzsche, Mencken, and &#8220;Mending Wall&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/09/25/frost-freud-nietzsche-mencken-and-mending-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Root of the Matter: Frederick Douglass&#8217;s New World Columbiad</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/08/22/the-root-of-the-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Weird John Brown&#8221;: The Meteor of the War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<title>On Thursday, August 30, 1962, Robert Frost dined on marinated mushrooms&#8230;</title>
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		<title>Notes on Crane&#8217;s Style #2: &#8220;The Red Badge of Courage&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/05/10/notes-on-cranes-style-2-the-red-badge-of-courage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 09:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[metaphor]]></category>
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		<title>Which and What is &#8220;The Road Not Taken&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/05/02/which-and-what-is-the-road-not-taken/</link>
		<comments>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/05/02/which-and-what-is-the-road-not-taken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 07:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert frost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the road not taken]]></category>

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		<title>&#8220;The Wife of His Youth&#8221;: Charles Chesnutt</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/04/28/the-wife-of-his-youth-charles-chesnutt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[african-american literature]]></category>
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		<title>Brief Notes on Stephen Crane&#8217;s Prose Style #1</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/04/24/brief-notes-on-stephen-cranes-prose-style-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[prose style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephen crane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maggie a girl of the streets]]></category>
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		<title>&#8220;It was no more to be noted than if a troop of dim and silent gray monkeys had been climbing a grapevine into the clouds”: Notes on Stephen Crane&#8217;s Monster</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/04/16/it-was-no-more-to-be-noted-than-if-a-troop-of-dim-and-silent-gray-monkeys-had-been-climbing-a-grapevine-into-the-clouds%e2%80%9d-notes-on-stephen-cranes-monster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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