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		<title><![CDATA[The Mitt You See is What You Get]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all of Mitt Romney's talk of what he would do on Day One in the
White House -- bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? -- there's just
as good a chance he would be tacking up two pictures on the wall. One
would be of George H.W. Bush and the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1147477</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mayor Bloomberg's 5,600 lives saved]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new kind of crime statistic. It
is not the astoundingly low number of murders committed in his fair city
-- 471 in 2009 vs. about 2,000 per year in the 1980s -- but murders
<i>not</i> committed in the last ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1144149</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/15/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama Could Learn from LBJ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro's classic
biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker." From the evidence, it is
far from clear, though, that the president has read Caro's other books,
the latest being the fourth ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1140959</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/08/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Long Must Syrians Wait?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States seems to have two plans to deal with what is fast
becoming a civil war in Syria. Plan A calls for the full implementation
of the U.N. cease-fire and the complete cooperation of Bashar al-Assad,
a dictator who would, at the risk ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1137361</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Luxury We Don't Have in Syria]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled
with, barred Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma, and other women in his
immediate family from shopping for luxury goods in Europe. For some
reason, going cold turkey on Dior, Armani ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1133898</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/24/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Business Plan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the attributes I most envy in a public man (or woman) is the
ability to lie. If that ability is coupled with no sense of humor, you
have the sort of man who can be a successful football coach, a CEO or,
when you come right down to it, a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1130431</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/17/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Real Ike]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day in 1967, Dwight D. Eisenhower came to New York for the opening
of an exhibit of his paintings at the old Huntington Hartford Museum on
Columbus Circle. Ike, like Churchill, was an amateur painter and, like
Churchill, was more ambitious ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1127311</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Lesson We Fail to Learn]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are coming up on a melancholy anniversary. On April 5, 1992, Suada
Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were shot and killed. They were attending a
peace rally in Sarajevo when Serbian snipers opened fire. The two women
were the first of more than 100,000...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1123475</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/03/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Plea to Lead On Syria]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For over a year now, the best minds in Washington have assured me (and
you) that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is about to fall. These
assurances are always delivered with great confidence, winks and nods
oozing gravitas, and yet the wispy ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1117827</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/27/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Israel's Need to Buy Time]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nations have doctrines. The Soviet Union had the Brezhnev Doctrine and
the United States had the Monroe Doctrine, among others. Even little
Israel has one. I call it the Maybe the Dog Will Talk Doctrine and it is
based on a folk tale of the rabbi ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1114387</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/20/2012</pubDate>
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