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        <title><![CDATA["'Tintin Au Congo' book banned from Brooklyn libraries for depicting Africans as monkeys" by Erin Durkin and Simone Weichselbaum]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["The New Book Banning" by Walter Olson]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Index Translationum Statistics]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:29:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted" by Amy E. Boyle Johnston]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Jefferson's Quran" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["Going, going, Gonzo..." by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["Anti-Sovietchik No. 1" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["She's No Fundamentalist" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["What Are Independent Bookstores Really Good For?" by Tyler Cowen]]></title>
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