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	<description>By Peter Kinder</description>
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		<title>Kinky!:  Studying for the Bar Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George Orwell]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>Why I Don’t Write:  Semper Orwellum!</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2011/12/why-i-don%e2%80%99t-write-semper-orwellum/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2011/12/why-i-don%e2%80%99t-write-semper-orwellum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In ‘Why I Write’ (1946), George Orwell begins: From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Lincoln Wright: Country Singer-Songwriter</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2011/12/john-lincoln-wright-country-singer-songwriter/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2011/12/john-lincoln-wright-country-singer-songwriter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambridge, Mass.]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Lincoln Wright, who died on December 4 at 64, could jolt a bar to life.  A country singer-songwriter and band leader, his distinctive bass voice – backed by a tight, driving band – could project the demise of mill life in New England or describe a now-over relationship as ‘almost like living in Lowell’.[1] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan Baez &amp; Altan: Fifty Years of ‘Daily Growing’</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2011/12/joan-baez-altan-fifty-years-of-%e2%80%98daily-growing%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://thebell.us/2011/12/joan-baez-altan-fifty-years-of-%e2%80%98daily-growing%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Folk & Acoustic Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In September 1961, ‘Joan Baez Vol. 2&#8216; appeared.  Five months later, on a dark mid-February afternoon, a friend played it and ‘Joan Baez&#8216; (1960) for me.  Then we played the two albums again.  And again.  And again. Fifty years later, I’m still listening to both.  All the cuts with two minor exceptions on ‘Joan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The Geography of Stuck’: On Richard Florida and 21st Century American Mobility</title>
		<link>http://thebell.us/2011/11/%e2%80%98the-geography-of-stuck%e2%80%99-on-richard-florida-and-21st-century-american-mobility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebell.us/?p=1487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; What does it mean when 78.9 percent of today’s Louisianans were born there? Nothing good, infers Richard Florida, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto&#8217;s Rotman School of Management, on The Atlantic Cities blog. States, like Ohio, where 75 percent of residents are natives, [...]]]></description>
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