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		<title>Fare Thee Well Address</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the May 2012 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Dear Larry, [NSNC Vice President Laurence D. Cohen is on the slate of nominees for the May 6 election, for 2012-14 president.] This, the columnists presidency, has been a humbling experience. I&#8217;ve had plenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Low Sell High</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the April 2012 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists It must have been this time of year in 1999, I was on the phone with my mom about soon flying to Louisville, Ky., for that year&#8217;s NSNC conference. &#8220;You go there and &#8216;network&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Irish Soda Bread Recipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Food Section World, this long-evolved Irish Soda Bread recipe would be published before St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. But in Brick World, I bake a loaf on St. Paddy&#8217;s, relying on collected recipes and sometimes a new one that pops up. Brick could schedule the recipe for March 16, 2013, but why wait? Every newspaper every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth and Goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mr. Boo Klist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Completing the book list of 2011 shouldn&#8217;t be taxing. Its first entry after all took in the first three quarters. So where are we? Or to quote independent Ross Perot&#8217;s 1992 running mate James Stockdale (it IS a presidential year, after all), in a televised debate&#8217;s opening statement: &#8220;Who am I? Why am I here?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCD TT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not making this up. Nor did I touch the dog or his possessions. He did this. Our 4-year Tibetan terrier Mani, whom we&#8217;ve had three years, loves Hopper, the stray young adult TT we adopted last Thanksgiving week. Inseparable. They can quarrel over toys, though. Mani is the alpha although Hopper has 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heisenberg? Not Bad, Heisen You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<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 March 2012 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. With certainty, the renown physicist Garrison Keillor noted in his radio spot The Writer&#8217;s Almanac: On this date [Feb. 23] in 1927, physicist Werner Heisenberg first described his Uncertainty Principle in a letter. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;d&#039;ve-Thunks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2012 Ben S. Pollock I knew what to expect of The Artist, a &#8220;silent&#8221; film, meaning no talking, though it did have sound effects and music (and beforehand, ironically, the loudest-volume trailers since those running with Avatar). Still, the teenage box office cashier warned My Beloved and me, while giving me $7 change for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Friend Jeff Zaslow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re middle-aged, what the hell is a friend, anyway? Some of my favorite people I see for one long weekend every year, a conference. In between there will be a handful of emails and, these days, rather more frequently, single-sentence repartee on Facebook. I often have met their spouses, briefly, but damn if I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Taking Ulysses for Granted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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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>
		<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 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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