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        <title><![CDATA["These Men Are Peacemakers?" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["Jefferson's Quran" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hitchens' response to the unwarranted criticism of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new autobiographical book.
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        <title><![CDATA["Catholics outraged by chocolate Jesus" by Nicole Lyn Pesce and Gina Salamone]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["Dutch Courage" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["The Caged Virgin" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 08:29:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["'South Park' Creators Skewer Own Network" by David Bauder]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["In Defense of Pat Robertson" by Richard Kim]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA["On Not Mourning the Pope - Thoughts over the grave of John Paul II" by Christopher Hitchens]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["For us, this day is only the interment of an elderly and querulous celibate, who came too late and who stayed too long, and whose primitive ideology did not permit him the true self-criticism that could have saved him, and others less innocent, from so many errors and crimes."
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