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			<title><![CDATA[Did Geraldine Ferraro really say that?]]></title>
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			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Geraldine Ferraro, once the first woman vice-presidential nominee, is providing grist for the Obama camp, now clamoring for her head.  But the comments she made to the Torrance (CA) Daily Breeze are similar, if not identical, to those she made at a Livonia event last Thursday.
The Daily Breeze]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:49 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Alvin's Gay Agenda]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[
The holiday movies are toying with cultural stereotypes as if they were Wii controllers. 
I'm not sure how Focus On the Family has missed the deeply subversive message of Alvin and the Chipmunks, the PG-rated retro-romp that's being advertised as a heart-warming, amusing family picture. Oh, it's]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:43 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Art Lessons for the Upper Classes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[
   The Saturday night gala for the all-new Detroit Institute of Arts is sold out. No, really sold out.  One suburban would-be gala goer didn't realize how much she wanted to go until the $200 tickets sold out.  As the buzz grew, so did her desire. "I decided to spring for the $600 tickets but was]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Nov 7, 2007 at 5:06 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Swedish,]]></title>
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			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[
 I'm fascinated by the way former Gov. John Engler was perpetually called "tough," and Granholm is inevitably assailed for lacking that quality. Today, Republican Party chair Saul Anuzis derides the governor for using "blackmail," forcing Republicans to swallow tax increase poison, preferable to]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Oct 1, 2007 at 10:08 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Britney and Babes in Freefall]]></title>
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			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[

 I cannot believe that Britney Spears is not only alive but a live commodity. "She's been getting by on just being a babe," one man recently explained to me. Naw. Didn't Britney part company with babedom long ago? -- say, after two pregnancies, being a bad mommy, the rehabs, the baldness, the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 1:21 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Honey, I shrunk the fish...]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[
Twice in the last month, in Detroit area restaurants, I've been told that the special fresh fish of the day was perch. Which sounded local and tasty.  And in each instance, the server added that the delicious fresh perch was flown in from "South Africa." When I think "fresh", I'm not thinking]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 5:22 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[And the Oscar Goes to...]]></title>
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			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[If you thought my Aug. 30 column about Kwame Kilpatrick was too fawning -- and some readers did -- I need to say that the mayor's genius on the stand was largely a result of the failure of the plaintiff's counsel. Gary Brown's lawyer, Michael Stefani, allowed Kilpatrick the freedom to tell his own]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 6:19 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[So you think that's sweet corn in the fields]]></title>
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			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Heading off on vacation last week, I had an ambitious reading plan that included three books: Michael Pollan's tome on food in the modern era, "The Omnivore's Dilemma," Michael Chabon's "Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel", and -- to break the chain of books by guys named Michael -- a new book by]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 5:31 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[On Rabbi Sherwin Wine]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, sitting in traffic at the Blue Water Bridge, I was -- literally -- talking about Sherwin Wine when a news bulletin announced that he was dead, at 79. I had attended several lectures he had given recently and, until that moment, imagined we would one day sit down and talk about his efforts]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 5:37 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Column Under Skin]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Efforts to amuse and write about smoking simultaneously proved trickier than I'd hoped when I wrote today's (Sept. 26) column. Smokers thought I was a liberal weenie; anti-smokers that I was a Neanderthal with little comprehension of the evils of cigarette smoke.  "I just finished reading your]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 4:55 PM</pubDate>
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