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   <title>Israel's alternative independence day</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Ben White</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Ben White reports on how some of Israel's Palestinian citizens marked the beginning of the country's 60th anniversary celebrations]]></description>
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   <title>Serbia's divided society</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Eric Gordy</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Ahead of elections in Serbia on Sunday, Eric Gordy explains that the country going to the polls is split between those looking hopefully toward a European future and those looking vengefully back to the recent past]]></description>
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   <title>Burma’s referendum of the absurd</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>David Mathieson</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Despite the terrible cyclone death toll, Burma's military junta is pushing ahead with its spurious constitutional referendum]]></description>
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   <title>Free to be poisoned</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>Unfriendly persuasion</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Nicholas Wapshott</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Observations on abortion]]></description>
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   <title>All along the watchtower </title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Greil Marcus</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[It was a year of horror and bad faith]]></description>
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   <title>Enter the dragon</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Flora Bagenal</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and sculptor Antony Gormley were drawn to the legendary Shaolin monastery. The reality they uncovered was not what they'd expected]]></description>
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   <title>A murky outcome</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Andrew Stephen</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[After the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the Democrats are increasingly backed into a corner, writes US editor Andrew Stephen]]></description>
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   <title>Bolivian poppycock</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Hugh O'Shaughnessy</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[A faux referendum in Bolivia demanding greater autonomy for the Santa Cruz province is nothing more than a modern version of Ian Smith's shortlived minority rule in Southern Rhodesia]]></description>
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   <title>Priests' law of death</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Markovits and Vincent Bevins</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Observations on Nicaragua and abortion]]></description>
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   <title>Investing in Me, Inc</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Samia Rahman</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Observations on self-improvement]]></description>
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   <title>There are other Tibets</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Lindsey Hilsum</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs]]></description>
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   <title>Forgotten Burma</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Rachel Aspden</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Burma is back in the news in the wake of the terrible cyclone. Ahead of this tragedy Rachel Aspden visited the forgotten Burmese resistance. Here is her report.]]></description>
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   <title>Promises and betrayals</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Robert Fisk</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Seven Pillars of Wisdom was hailed on its first appearance as a historical and literary masterpiece. But, argues Robert Fisk, this memoir of the Arab revolt, and T E Lawrence's other writings, also offer prescient warnings about western policy in the Middle East]]></description>
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   <title>Adolf Hitler will give you - ?</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>C M Lloyd</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[<strong>Taken from The <em>New Statesman</em> 6 May 1933</strong>]]></description>
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