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         <title>An inconvenient challenge</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, whose&nbsp;new book&nbsp;shoots holes through&nbsp;global warming&nbsp;mythology, has&nbsp;challenged Al Gore&nbsp;to a&nbsp;shootout on the...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00:03 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Terminal disaster: How to botch a megabuck breakthrough on a global scale</title>
         <description><![CDATA[All the money in the world couldn't&nbsp;have purchased the colossal level&nbsp;of media exposure -- most it&nbsp;negative...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:31:02 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Eating Raul: Home-grown complaints vs. foreign-born comments on the Cuban non-Miracle</title>
         <description><![CDATA[More telling than this NBC correspondent's story about the discontent bubbling up&nbsp;among Cuba's restive&nbsp;population&nbsp;is the&nbsp;range of&nbsp;comments&nbsp;posted...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:50:05 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Mainstream media blind spot: why price controls don&apos;t work</title>
         <description><![CDATA[When politicians&nbsp;scapegoat&nbsp;business&nbsp;for a nation's&nbsp;economic problems,&nbsp;the first casualty&nbsp;usually is&nbsp;truth --&nbsp;Article by Thomas Sowell at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/a_lesson_from_venezuela.html.&nbsp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:53:04 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>We couldn&apos;t have said it better ourselves</title>
         <description>Latin America is lagging due to faulty policiesBy Andres Oppenheimer, Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News ServicePublished:...</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:15:35 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Citgo boycott. Why stars like to hang with Hugo.</title>
         <description>It&apos;s been a year since Southland Corp., better known in the U.S. by its massive 7-11...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:18:16 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&apos;Made in China&apos;: Is That an Emblem or an Epithet?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Cellphones that explode in your pocket, drug-soaked&nbsp;seafood raised in raw sewage, counterfeit toothpaste laced with antifreeze,...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.theglobalmarketerblog.com/2007/07/made_in_china_emblem_or_epithe.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:04:34 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Cuban Trade Embargo: Let&apos;s Get Real for a Change</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Came across this on MSNBC just this morning. Check it out: http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/05/213639.aspxHaving a bit of history&nbsp;with...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:28:25 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Hold your nose; now swallow. Now strip; then flip.</title>
         <description><![CDATA[We're with&nbsp;the&nbsp;cynics,&nbsp;not&nbsp;the skeptics, on this one. Our advice is to&nbsp;strip&nbsp;it and flip Chrysler&nbsp;as fast as that&nbsp;can...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 11:55:46 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>The Slippery Slope</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Let's see now, we've got Al Qaeda and&nbsp;the Taliban over there, and Hugo and Evo down...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 08:18:50 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>On megabrand marketing, rational self-interest and wishful thinking</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Following up&nbsp;on our recent posting about&nbsp;the&nbsp;'Genocide Olympics', we&nbsp;can now predict with&nbsp;some degree of certaincy that a&nbsp;marketer-driven&nbsp;sea...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:50:16 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Bye-Bye to Imus In Your Face...</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Good riddance to&nbsp;the&nbsp;sarcasm, the obscenity, the race-baiting and&nbsp;the malicious&nbsp;personal attacks&nbsp;masquerading as snide humor that have characterized...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:39:18 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Perfect Solution for a Step Gone Too Far...</title>
         <description>Here we go again: Somebody says or does something exceedingly stupid and because of it his...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:34:34 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>How About Calling It &apos;The Genocide Olympics?&apos;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re always a bit skeptical when an actor decides to get serious, but one ought to...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:20:14 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Irresponsibility has its price. This one was just about right.</title>
         <description><![CDATA[One doesn't want to&nbsp;see someone&nbsp;lose his job, but&nbsp;this case begged for&nbsp;an exception.Given&nbsp;the&nbsp;over-the-top&nbsp;insensitivity&nbsp;of the so-called&nbsp;campaign for CNN's...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:04:21 -0500</pubDate>
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