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		<title>Rebirth of the Yuppie: Closing Decade to Shed some Light?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born pretty much immediately after the collapse of yuppie-dom in a sort of aftermath of the suburbanite cookie-cutter culture of the mid-20th century, so unfortunately I don&#8217;t have much to say about that&#8230; delicate period in American history. Driven by an obsessive desire for self-improvement spawned from the prosperous comfort of the 50&#8242;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesandbar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3664738&amp;post=116&amp;subd=thesandbar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYT Op-Ed: &#8220;Hard Times, a Helping Hand&#8221; by Ted Gup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought this was a great story to pass along, and I hope you will take the time to read it, and perhaps it will change how you feel about the holiday season. &#8230; IN the weeks just before Christmas of 1933 — 75 years ago — a mysterious offer appeared in The Repository, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesandbar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3664738&amp;post=108&amp;subd=thesandbar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response: In Hard Times, Russia Moves in to Reclaim Private Industries by Clifford J. Levy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clifford Levy writes how the Kremlin seems to be &#8220;capitalizing on the economic crisis&#8221;, using its political power to &#8220;exploit the opportunity&#8221; to establish more control over weakened industries. While this may be true in the case of the Yukos Oil Company in 2003, which was briefly mentioned as an aside, and in the case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesandbar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3664738&amp;post=101&amp;subd=thesandbar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Grinch Economy for a Scrooge Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose the North Pole can be excluded from the sour global economy because Santa operates through magic, not through the laws of supply and demand and economics. But with the recession here in the U.S. causing Black-Friday injuries and stampede-deaths, all eyes are on consumer spending through this 2008 holiday season. The contributing writers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesandbar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3664738&amp;post=98&amp;subd=thesandbar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response: &#8220;From Russia with Loathing&#8221; by Cathy Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always easier to blame another for your own mistakes than it is to blame yourself. The tension between Russia and the United States is a result of this back-and-forth blaming game that needs to end before any sort of diplomacy can take place. Cathy Young attributes the tensions to &#8220;anti-american sentiment&#8221;, a &#8220;perceived threat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesandbar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3664738&amp;post=89&amp;subd=thesandbar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be an American</title>
		<link>http://thesandbar.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/to-be-an-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was walking past the Sundial with my friend Beaker where draped in in front of the fountain hung a bunch of international flags all in a line. I wanted to try a little social experiment, so I pointed ambiguously to the line of flags and said to him, &#8220;Hey, there&#8217;s my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesandbar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3664738&amp;post=84&amp;subd=thesandbar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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