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	<description>Life during wartime</description>
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		<title>Year of the Rat?</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2011/01/28/year-of-the-rat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday as I stood waiting in the subway, a rat waddled up, politely sniffing, then climbed upon my bag, as if hoping for something to eat. An omen? An image of our society in dissolution? Upon noticing his approach I&#8217;d begun to call Shoo, then did something of a St Vitus dance. Finally he respected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Village Voice losesits voices</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2011/01/05/the-village-voice-losesits-voices/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2011/01/05/the-village-voice-losesits-voices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Death of the Left]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The VOICE will now be nothing but Special Lefty whining, petty bickering for crumbs, as the fascist shift accelerates. It&#8217;s a generational thing as much as anything. American society no longer breeds Universalists. “The left has disemboweled itself,” Nader said. “It doesn’t even have a strategy every four years like a good poker player. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allen Ginsberg Moment:An old cool interviewand a magical new filmabout the Genii of the City</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/10/04/allen-ginsberg-interview-tompkins-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[M Recollections and thoughts about the new film HOWL are on the way. Meanwhile peeps can comment on the man and the poem and the movie &#8212; and a very local interview from 1988 &#8212; here below. M M M]]></description>
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		<title>Falling branch kills baby at Central Park Zoo</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/26/falling-branch-kills-baby-at-central-park-zoo/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/26/falling-branch-kills-baby-at-central-park-zoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brings to mind the Japanese tourist beheaded by a snapping cable on the Brooklyn Bridge footpath some years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious:The Walt Whitman Archivepublishes Civil War letters</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/04/26/gloriousthe-walt-whitman-archive/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/04/26/gloriousthe-walt-whitman-archive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great WWA has just posted his letters from the Civil War years, gathered with responses. It&#8217;s a wonder to appreciate his prosaic mind and voice. And the colloquies with poetry editors are hilarious, to wit: Jan. 20, &#8217;60. Dear Sir, Mr. House inform&#8217;d me that you accepted, and would publish, my &#8220;Bardic Symbols.&#8221; If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third novel:  Dying Days</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/03/16/third-novel-dying-days/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/03/16/third-novel-dying-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bosnia et al.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has begun. What the Dice Man has joined may none put asunder. If your brakes don&#8217;t work, smile as you go under. What&#8217;s he building in there? This is actually a conversion of a screenplay, the antepenultimate, my fifth, from 2005, into a novel. Thought about doing it before. Now it seems to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geography of Lost Jobs &amp; Homes</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/10/19/geography-of-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/10/19/geography-of-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A map of jobs lost and gained. A political pattern? And here&#8217;s a map of foreclosure rates. The two maps don&#8217;t synch as much as one might think. The wave of unemployment foreclosures, if coming, is not yet reflected in the one.]]></description>
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		<title>Local Color</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/04/11/lugosi-brooklyn-gorilla/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/04/11/lugosi-brooklyn-gorilla/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dem wuz da daze &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Coney Island not dead yet</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/04/04/coney-island-not-dead-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/04/04/coney-island-not-dead-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cruelest month:  Coney Island starts up for summer despite the death of Astroland, the prime kiddie amusement park. QUOTE: &#8220;The thing is, we ain&#8217;t closed,&#8221; said Jimmy Carchiolo, an old salt with a pigskin voice who has run a dart game behind the Wonder Wheel for 43 years. &#8220;Astroland went under, but everybody figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fritz Finance Minister: Uncle Sam no Longer Superman</title>
		<link>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/09/25/germany-sees-uncle-sam-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/09/25/germany-sees-uncle-sam-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Geopolitics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Marketwatch.com: U.S. losing financial superpower status: Steinbrueck By William L. Watts, MarketWatch Sept. 25, 2008 LONDON (MarketWatch) &#8212; Germany&#8217;s finance minister on Thursday laid the blame for the global banking crisis on the Anglo-American free-market model&#8217;s quest for ever-higher near-term profits, predicting the United States would soon lose its role as the world&#8217;s dominant [...]]]></description>
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