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		<title>prison vs. princeton infographic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Created by: Public Administration]]></description>
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		<title>The Speechlessness Diet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;as of January 27, 2012 Kyrgyzstan: Prisoners Sew Mouths Shut in Protest &#8220;More than a thousand convicts have stitched their mouths closed to protest prison conditions, a prison official said Friday. The protest&#8230;escalates a two-week hunger strike involving most of the country’s 7,500 inmates. A prison service spokeswoman said that about 6,400 prisoners were on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“       “?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Wanting to clarify a past article written by Elena Kagan which called Supreme Court confirmation hearings “a hollow, vapid charade”, several senators went on the attack on the first day of her own hearings, gesticulating wildly, pulling on their ears, and pointing at their eyes as they desperately tried to convey their meaning. Senator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shacklereport.com/2010/features/9-whatever/%e2%80%9c-%e2%80%9c/</link>
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		<title>Spring Hatch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Orrin Hatch has raised some controversy in Washington over his proposal to force people receiving unemployment to submit to drug tests, and if found positive, to withhold benefits and then put those people into treatment. Then, all that money saved from withholding money from those people could be used to pay the new people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;ll work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Tony Hayward&#8217;s latest gaffe, in which he claimed the Gulf Coast brown pelicans weren&#8217;t bothered by the oil because they&#8217;re already brown, BP has offered huge incentives to anyone who will deal with the oil spill, including giving them Ireland. No one immediately started clamoring for the job, but there are reports that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP on it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  BP, the energy giant responsible for the Gulf oil spill, has finally hit upon a clean-up and capping plan they claim is much more feasible than trying to fill the hole with golf balls, now that Tiger Woods has hurt himself. Noting that Greece is in a financial bind these days and that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitty Lyons &#8212; The History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Secret Life of Kitty Lyons&#8221; by Maggie Cutler ran as a biweekly (and later a monthly) column from November, 1999 through January, 2002 in the Web-based literary magazine (and subsequent dating service) nerve.com. The column&#8217;s premise was that Kitty, like the rest of America, could not pry sex and politics apart. It was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shacklereport.com/2009/features/kitty-lyons-the-history/</link>
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		<title>The Chain Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOOKS &#8212; ADDICTION LIT &#8212; CDs and DVDs &#8212; SMART-WEAR SHOP YOURSELF INTO SUBMISSION Not all shackles are undesirable. Not the ones we sell here, anyway. Connect to Amazon.com through our site, and we get a little kickback from whatever you buy during that session. So, please bookmark this page, and click one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week&#8217;s reading, straight off the razor wire: From the background&#8230;or blackground&#8230;or backwash&#8230; [Blackwater] announced on February 13, 2009, that it would operate under the new name &#8220;Xe&#8221;. In a memo sent to employees, President Gary Jackson wrote that the new name &#8220;reflects the change in company focus away from the business of providing private [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week&#8217;s reading, straight off the razor wire: From the]]></description>
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