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	<description>By Peter Kinder</description>
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		<title>Gambling on Gaming:  A Terrible Bet</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/05/gambling-on-gaming-a-terrible-bet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Character]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crime - Organized & Not]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flying – or fleeing – from Boston Wednesday, on my way from a nascent gambling paradise to a burgeoning one, three articles in The Boston Globe struck me. *** On the front page, the lead story is headlined, ‘Wynn Drops Casino Proposal’.  On Tuesday, voters in Foxboro added two gambling opponents to its Selectmen.  This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The Politician’s Wife’: Not ‘The Good Wife’</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/04/the-politicians-wife-not-the-good-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Films]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a very long while – four times in my life – an actor leaps from the screen and into my deepest fears.  I can never look at them objectively again. Yes, I know the difference between acting and actors.  But in my experience these performances are very different from mere great acting.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kent State, James A. Rhodes &amp; Ohio Today</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/03/kent-state-james-a-rhodes-ohio-today/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2012/03/kent-state-james-a-rhodes-ohio-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sixties History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The picture below, taken in Columbus, Ohio, two weeks ago, holds many ironies. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen fired on Kent State students, killing four and injuring nine others.  The governor who authorized the Guard’s deployment was James A. Rhodes.  Represented in bronze, it is he who strides toward the camera, with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis in the Times of M.L. King &amp; B.B. King through Ernest Withers’ Lens</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/02/memphis-in-the-times-of-m-l-king-b-b-king-through-ernest-withers%e2%80%99-lens/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2012/02/memphis-in-the-times-of-m-l-king-b-b-king-through-ernest-withers%e2%80%99-lens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rock - 50s thru 70s]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to see afresh Martin Luther King?  B.B. King?  Jackie Robinson?   The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers protest?  ‘Yes’ proves the fascinating Ernest C. Withers retrospective at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts. Ernest Withers (1922-2007)[1] is now hardly unknown.  Four volumes of his record of Memphis from WWII to the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinky!:  Studying for the Bar Exam</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/01/kinky-studying-for-the-bar-exam/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2012/01/kinky-studying-for-the-bar-exam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country & Western Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court House, New Lexington, Ohio. 5/27/10 The bar review:  nothing this side of an oncology service waiting room matches the tedium coupled with fear of the eight to ten weeks before the quiz. Son Jotham is doubling his pleasant June and July, preparing for the New York Bar (and passing it!), with a wonderful January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul on Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Assassination:  Not Our Finest Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday evening, US Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) attempted to explain in a debate amongst Republican candidates for President why he’d said Osama bin Laden should have been captured and tried, as Saddam Hussein and Adolf Eichman were. By all accounts, he was something less than lucid.  The StateColumn.com reported him saying, in part:  If somebody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winston Churchill &amp; George Orwell:  &#8216;Their Finest Hour&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/01/winston-churchill-george-orwell-their-finest-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2012/01/winston-churchill-george-orwell-their-finest-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George Orwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History Lessons - Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace & War]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Few events affected me as much, I’ve written, as Winston Churchill’s passing on January 24, 1965. Each year at this time, I find myself reflecting on Churchill.  This year my revisiting of George Orwell’s essays and letters turned up a short piece he wrote on Churchill.  It was the last he published. At Orwell’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Pepys: An Evening with a Friend from School in 1664</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2012/01/samuel-pepys-an-evening-with-a-friend-from-school-in-1664/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2012/01/samuel-pepys-an-evening-with-a-friend-from-school-in-1664/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people encounter Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) when they read about the London’s plague in 1665 or its great fire in 1666.  His Diary holds the best first-hand account of both. The Diary’s ten volumes (1660-69) – well over 2000 pages – record a crucial decade in British (and therefore American) constitutional, political and social history: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change for the Famous Dead:  What Gives?</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2011/12/change-for-the-famous-dead-what-gives/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2011/12/change-for-the-famous-dead-what-gives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Benny]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bennington, Vermont: Old First Church. 4/3/11 Updated:  Jan. 11, 2012. What do Jack Benny, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Frost have in common? Each achieved greatness in a fiercely competitive field.  Each was born in the 19th century.  Each lived to a great age.  Each died still on top.  Each rests in a relatively unpretentious, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Policy &amp; The Dogs that are Howling</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2011/12/economic-policy-the-dogs-that-are-howling/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2011/12/economic-policy-the-dogs-that-are-howling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession (2008)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Economic policy in the West looks like an Iditarod race. Long lines of tightly harnessed economists, bankers and politicians strain to pull sleds into a frozen, trackless, horizonless waste.  Hide-encased drivers – Merkel, Obama, et al. – staring through tiny slits in their masks have left their smartest, least tractable lead dogs – Krugman, Stiglitz, [...]]]></description>
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