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		<title><![CDATA[Second-Term Pitfalls]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Jenkins, a sportswriter of rare wit, once gave us the Ten Stages of
Drunkenness, which include these separate points on the road to
inebriation: "Witty and Charming," "Rich and Powerful," "Clairvoyant,"
"Patriotic," followed by "Crank Up the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1326486</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/18/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Advice for Graduation Day]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, graduation time is upon us. By some iron rule, every
graduation must have a graduation speaker, whose role has been compared
to that of the corpse at a great Irish wake: His presence is deemed
necessary for the event to be take place, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1322989</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/11/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Story Too Good to Check Out]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As generations of schoolchildren were told, Jamestown in 1607 was the
first permanent English settlement on what would become the United
States. What we learned this week is that those English settlers,
confronted by the most severe drought in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1319482</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Square Deal for the Little Guy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[To listen to the language of American political campaigns, you could
reasonably conclude that "big" is bad and "small" is good.

Who has too much power and influence in Washington? Of course, Big
Business, Big Banks and Big Money, in general. Some...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1315898</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[One Man Who Gave Politics a Good Name]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a hit new movie this spring, "42," the story of how in 1947 Jack
Roosevelt Robinson made baseball history and American history by
breaking the color barrier to become a Brooklyn Dodger and the first
black man to play in the Major Leagues.
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		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1312642</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/20/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Gun Lobby and States Rights]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Census Bureau, in the year 2020, there will be 214,000
living Americans over the age of 100 and, according to Washington
wise-man Mark Russell, all of them will have valid State of Florida
driver's licenses.

That line makes fun ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1308479</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/13/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Honeymoon for a Pope]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In politics, maybe even in life, perception frequently becomes reality.
If enough people see you as a winner, then you will be treated like a
winner, which means that your calls, even to important strangers whom
you have never met, are promptly ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1305462</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/06/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Two Very Different Questions -- Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the nearly unprecedented velocity of change in American
attitudes on the legality and acceptance of same-sex marriage, according
to the Gallup Poll -- from 68 percent-27 percent opposition during the
Bill Clinton years to 53 percent-46...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1301973</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/30/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A War With No Victors]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA["History is written by the victors," as Winston Churchill wrote. But the
United States 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq was indeed a war with
no victors.

We know the American numbers: 4,488 killed; 31,965 wounded and, because
there are truly ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1297764</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/23/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Maybe Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miraculously, a single government policy initiative has united
Washington, D.C. Elected officials who had been either locking horns or
crossing swords over drugs, drones or deficits suddenly found themselves
on the same side, thus reminding us of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1294031</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/16/2013</pubDate>
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