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	<title>Mir Tamim Ansary</title>
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		<title>Freedom Deconstructed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[window.document.getElementById('post-26').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Freedom’s just another word for—well, for a lot of things actually: let’s unpack it.    Link to Encarta

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		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/hidden/freedom-deconstructed/</link>
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		<title>To schedule a lecture, please contact:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[window.document.getElementById('post-65').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Deborah Krant
(415) 412-8657 cell
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		<title>West of Kabul, East of New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[window.document.getElementById('post-12').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Ansary&#8217;s literary memoir tells the story of a life that straddles the fault line between Islam and the West: his father, hailing from an ancestral line rich in Sufi mystics, was one of the first ten Afghans sent abroad by his government for a Western-style education; and hIs mother was the first American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/books/west-of-kabul-east-of-new-york/</link>
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		<title>Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British government has investigated the killing of Benazir Bhutto and concluded that she was killed in just the way Musharraf’s government has said: agitators attacked her motorcade, fired shots , and in the melee that followed, Bhutto smashed her head against something.
I see that various groups in Pakistan refuse to accept this account of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/todays-rant/who-killed-benazir-bhutto/</link>
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		<title>How Democrats Can Get Back in the Saddle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something I started writing in 2004, just after the election that gave George Bush a second term. I was moved to begin this piece after a symposium I attended, in which liberals got together to discuss what went wrong and how things could be put right again.   It struck me that everybody was focusing on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/nonfiction/how-democrats-can-get-back-in-the-saddle/</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: I&#8217;m Not There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worst movie of the year? For me: no competition: it’s that so-called “Bob Dylan” movie, I’m Not There. It might be the worst of the decade or even…ever. Half an hour into it, I for one was wishing it had lived up to its title.Why was I there? Because some idiot writing for the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Show Without Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart is back on the air but without his writers. I watched him a couple of times last week, and man, if I were him, I would stay home until the writer’s strike is over. He delivers all the familiar John Stewart mannerisms and timing, he sounds like he ought to be funny, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/todays-rant/the-daily-show-without-writers/</link>
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		<title>Christmas: Not Just for Christians Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I meant to post this on Christmas Day, but my plans went awry again, as most of my plans do.] A couple of years ago, I proposed to my family that we bust out of the dog-eared old Christmas traditions and try something new.  “Let’s go to Las Vegas,”  I said.  The response was not good. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/hidden/christmas-not-just-for-christians-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Obamania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Obama won the Iowa caucuses in large part because a lot of under-30 voters turned out and they went for him overwhelmingly. The moment I heard this I thought about my visit to the University of Arizona a couple of months ago to do some lectures and workshops. I spoke to a freshman honors class, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mirtamimansary.com/todays-rant/obamania/</link>
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		<title>Anti-abortion is Pro-abortion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the candidates now running for president said that even though he was personally opposed to abortion, he didn’t believe in making it illegal. Then I heard a pundit named David Lazarus attacking this position. He called it wishy washy . “Have the courage of your conviction,” said Lazarus. “If you think it’s wrong, [...]]]></description>
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