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							<title><![CDATA[Forty-Nine Ways To Fix the World (Hint: Start Locally)]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Crisis at the border. You fear the other guy will win the November election. Are we really talking about nuclear war with Russia, again, and maybe with China, too? Worried about the economy, your job security, your rent or mortgage increase, rising utilities, expensive groceries and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hagel Warns of Big Squeeze at the Pentagon]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thom Shanker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' Ending his first month as defense secretary, Chuck Hagel invited six young enlisted personnel for lunch in his private Pentagon office. Without military or civilian aides, Mr. Hagel himself took extensive notes as the sergeants and petty officers poured out their concerns...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gates Warns NATO of &quot;Dim&quot; Future]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thom Shanker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly criticized NATO nations on Friday for what he said were shortages in military spending and political will, warning of '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'a dim if not dismal future'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' unless more member nations scaled up their participation in the alliance'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s activities.NATO has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NATO Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thom Shanker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BRATISLAVA, Slovakia  &#151; NATO defense ministers gave their broad endorsement Friday to the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan laid out by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, increasing pressure on the Obama administration and on their own governments to commit more military and...]]></description>
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