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		<title>No Taking Ulysses for Granted</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the February 2012 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Spring — OK, this is winter but I’m an optimist — is busy-time for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. • We’re halfway through gathering entries for the annual Column Contest. Have you sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know When to Folder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the January 2012 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Who among us still owns a typewriter? My Smith-Corona manual portable that saw me through high school and college is in the attic, but it works. On a desk for addressing envelopes is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Havel and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock I met Vaclav Havel once, while he was president of Czechoslovakia. We were in a castle. Oh, and I avoided shaking hands with him. Now, he&#8217;s dead. Not that I&#8217;d ever had a chance to renew the, uh, acquaintance. In September 1992, I was in Europe for a traveling journalism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupied or Vacant, Engaged or Vacant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt of this long-form column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the December 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Captain Renault: I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Captain Renault: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day at the Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY &#8212; Crystal Britches was speechless, standing in the setting sun on a recent afternoon in a parking lot in Bentonville, Ark. &#8220;She did it. My old BFF really pulled it off,&#8221; Ms. Britches said of her periodic Best Friend Forever Alice. I, her ghost-publicist Noah Vale, had driven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crotchety Old Ppl</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[American Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock Reflections on the Paul Simon concert at Kansas City&#8217;s Midland Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; When a conversation turns to popular music, sometimes one is lectured on who has the definitive voice of the generation. Most of the time one learns it&#8217;s Bob Dylan. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bentonville Picture Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY &#8212; What a lovely day for a dedication. This is free-range journalist Noah Vale, preparing a live blog for my client Crystal Britches. We are here for the opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, although Ms. Britches prefers calling it the Raveenia Museum, the Ozark Museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economical Greek Yogurt, No Way? Whey.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock Though we who note the news have known about the Greek economic crisis for quite some time, it seems to have come to a head here in the first week of November. Maybe if Greece exported more of that sunny yogurt, the budget would teeter back a bit. But in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Sin in Synchronicity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the November 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. &#8220;How can there be any sin in sincere? &#8220;Where is the good in goodbye?&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Sincere&#8221; by Meredith Willson in The Music Man It may be yet another way of stalling the labor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Litmus Flavored Columns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Course of Words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the October 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Your president is looking out for your welfare. Thank me later. Tracy Beckerman, chairman of the Social Media Committee, although an NSNC member for several years, still is trying to figure us out. Just [...]]]></description>
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