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							<title><![CDATA[Minnesota&rsquo;s &lsquo;Happy Warrior&rsquo; Defined America. Would Anyone Listen Today?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forty-eight years ago this month, Hubert Horatio Humphrey died.
At the time I was a young reporter at the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the largest newspaper in South Dakota, the state where Humphrey was born. In 1978, my editors sent me 152 miles northwest to his hometown of Doland, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politicians Should Leave Gettysburg at Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/05/politicians_should_leave_gettysburg_at_peace.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1865, Atlantic Monthly correspondent J.T. Trowbridge visited the battlefield at Gettysburg, two years after the brutal fighting over three sultry July days had reversed seasons of Northern losses in the Civil War, turning a divided nation back toward...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remember When . . . We Could Laugh at Ourselves?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/14/remember_when____we_could_laugh_at_ourselves.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do you remember when some journalists assigned to Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s White House worried that covering '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'No Drama Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' would be boring? When there was such a thing as a news cycle, and presidential messages were often so carefully written and vetted that they were sometimes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What I Learned About CovidMerica Across 8,550 Miles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/13/what_i_learned_about_covidmerica_across_8550_miles_144185.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the final August morning in a rented cabin on a South Dakota lake, and as half a dozen family members sat talking and overlooking the water'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s placid glass surface, a visitor interrupted the serenity.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an eagle,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' my brother-in-law said in his quiet way. He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Field Where Bullets Flew, a Rich Baseball History Preceded]]></title>
							<link>http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/raasch-on-the-field-where-bullets-flew-a-rich-baseball/article_13806e51-e35c-5350-8807-029bb7a99d89.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good field, with rich history and the echoes of many games over the decades. But the field of dreams was temporarily turned into a horror Wednesday, as Rep. Steve Scalise and others were shot at a baseball practice. I coached many a Little League game on the adjacent field...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MO: Outside Groups Pour $26 Million in Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/outside-groups-have-spent-million----and-counting/article_59eba90d-bd40-58b2-a7df-2f4a0114d03c.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early money favored Blunt, but late cash is shifting toward Kander]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Campaign Nastiness Pales in Comparison to Earlier Era]]></title>
							<link>http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/gateway-to-dc/historically-the-nastiness-of-campaign-pales/article_fbb318c2-3bcb-52b7-aae8-1f0f82503e0f.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even amid the insults and petty tweets, the assault charges against Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign manager, the allegations of racism and sexism coursing through the 2016 presidential campaign, you should put to rest the good-old-days nostalgia about calmer political times.Historically...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Writing, and Its Impact on Our Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/09/the_death_of_writing_and_its_impact_on_our_politics__120606.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For four months before the battle of Gettysburg, Pvt. Myron A. Clark, a 21-year-old clerk in Company I of the 14th Vermont Infantry, wrote every day in a leather-bound diary he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d bought in Washington, D.C.
He filled it with descriptions of camp life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s boredom and tedium and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Those Towns&quot; Tour Puts D.C. in Its Place]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/02/those_towns_tour_puts_dc_in_its_place_119470.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political handicappers in the nation's capital expressed surprise last month when former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, seen as the Democrats' best hope to hold on to the seat of retiring Sen. Max Baucus -- and with it, possibly keep control of the Senate -- decided not to run for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the World of &quot;Big Data&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/12/big-data-instant-information-lifestyles/1765563/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[3:55AM EST December 13. 2012 - It was Saturday night, and Coy Bailey, a Sunday School teacher from Huntsville, Ala., had a dilemma. A friend was offering a free ticket a concert by country singer Jason Isbell, but the lesson on Noah's Ark that Bailey and another friend were teaching the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VA: Kaine, Allen Race Down to Wire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/23/virginia-also-a-battleground-for-senate/1653225/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SettingsEnter City, State or ZipCancelSetCancelFull ForecastLog in with Facebook to comment and share content.You are logged in as CloseGeorge Allen vs. Tim KaineVirginia SenateAllen vs. KaineIn addition to being a swing state in the presidential contest between President Obama and Mitt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As 2011 Ends, Is America Still a Great Nation?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-12-22/america-nation-century/52166286/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Updated  2 '&#'.ord('|').';'  Share-->WASHINGTON "'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' At the end of a tumultuous, downbeat year, is the United States of America still a great nation?By J. Scott Applewhite, APEnlargeCloseBy J. Scott Applewhite, APdisplay_afs_ads(afs_top_ads, "topsponsoredLinks");Chuck Raasch USA TODAY columnistYou will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Winning the Electability Argument]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-10-21/mitt-romney-gop-candidate/50844994/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will the candidate who has always been near the head of the pack but never run away with the nomination, a man who is not always in step with an anxious and anti-establishment GOP base, get into the big dance with President Obama because Romney is perceived as the Republican most able to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Obama Become What He Ran Against?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-08-12-obama-politics-rhetoric-unity_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA["At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do, it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hope &amp; Change Distant in the Rearview Mirror]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-07-29-debt-ceiling-debate-protest_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Gipper, Ronald Reagan, is wondering what happened to his "shining city on the Hill." John F. Kennedy is saddened about the torch that is being passed to a young generation of debtor Americans.No matter the outcome of this showdown over deficits and debt, one element has become...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On This 4th, a Celebration of the Good]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-06-30-july-4-celebration_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For actor-musician Gary Sinise and triathlete Brian Boyle, this  Fourth of July will be like no other.Sinise has spent much of the decade since 9/11 raising money for military veterans and first responders, and entertaining U.S. forces around the globe with his rock band. Now he's a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Are Two Americas on Memorial Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-05-26-Two-Americas-on-Memorial-Day_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are two Americas on Memorial Day.Jake Diliberto lives in one. The Marine veteran of Afghanistan will spend the day at Arlington National Cemetery mourning lost comrades, including Navy SEAL Jeff Taylor, killed in Afghanistan in 2005, whom Diliberto describes as "my primary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Release the Bin Laden Photo, Mr. President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-05-05-Bin-Laden-photo-release_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This picture is worth an awful lot more than 1,000 words.President Obama  may have the right to keep pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden from the  American people, but that does not make it the right decision. He's  doing it, he says, because he wants to protect Americans from the gory ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Class Needs a Lesson from 'Silent Cal']]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-12-31-Raasch-on-Coolidge_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's fitting that "Silent Cal" was the only president sworn into office by a notary public (his father, who was summoned in the middle of the night to issue the oath of office after Warren Harding's sudden death). Compared to the bombast of our era, Coolidge was the anti-politician...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ohio Dems Struggle on Ground Game]]></title>
							<link>http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101022/NEWS0108/10230329/Ohio-Dems-struggle-to-repeat-08-ground-game</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Samantha Sekar believes she has persuaded at least 20 people to vote for  Democratic candidates this fall, but on a gorgeous autumn Saturday on  the edge of Ohio State University, the going is tough.She knocks on door after door, looking for students who voted for  Barack Obama in 2008...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Wal-Mart Moms' Struggle to Stay Afloat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-09-24-raasch24_ST_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The words tumbled out: "Downhill." "Recession." "Depressing." "Backwards." "Unfortunate." "Sad." "Loss of control."For the next 90 minutes, the Denver moms, half of whom had voted for Barack Obama in 2008, described lives of quiet doubt and modest expectations as they struggled to stay...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Move Over, Obama, There's a New Phenom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-06-11-raasch11_ST_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But unlike the president, the 21-year-old Strasburg met all the pre-arrival hype in his Major League pitching debut.Strasmania is in full-throat water cooler passion. Commentators are swooning over a curveball they say defies physics. Strasburgers are being served with 14 pickles at a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trends Shaping 2010]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2010-01-11-common-ground-raasch_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[1. The Democrat "brand" is tarnished. Wall Street Journal-NBC polls found that the Democrats fell from a net-positive favorable rating of 18 percentage points in February to a 10-point net negative in December. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's racially charged statements about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Focus Should Be on Massachusetts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2010-01-06-common-ground-raasch_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although Democrats are favored to hold the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Republicans here and in Massachusetts have increasingly touted the Jan. 19 special election as an opportunity for an upset.If that happens, it could have an immediate impact on the Democrats'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reid, Thune Tell Tale of 2009]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2009-12-10-raasch-common-ground_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Coming into the year, Senate Democratic Leader Reid was heading a new super-majority and brimming with expectations of legislation that would fix the economy, reform health care, boost alternative energy production and clean up the environment.He and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Fall Back to Earth With a Thud]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2009-11-05-commonground_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican wins in the Virginia and New Jersey governors' races Tuesday and recent polling and economic trends reveal a political landscape that has changed dramatically since the president's convincing election victory a year ago.Democrats on Tuesday did win a New York congressional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Big Challenges Ahead For Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2009-10-27-obama-challenge_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president took credit for pulling the economy back from "the brink of a meltdown," citing a $787 billion economic stimulus package that he said has resulted in the largest investments in energy, research and education in history, and the biggest spending on infrastructure since the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keeping the FOX Out of the White House]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2009-10-14-common-ground_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chuck Raasch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two days after the president won the Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama's communications director was on national television essentially declaring a message war on a major cable network that employs the abrasive commentator Beck, who recently called the president a racist.White House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheney's Message: A Debate Worth Having?]]></title>
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