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	<title>The Public Philosopher</title>
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		<title>Friends can be statesmen, but can statesmen be friends?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad, currently United States Ambassador to the United Nations, has come under fire for engaging in extensive and “unauthorized” contact with Asif Ali Zardari, widower to Benazir Bhutto and Pakistani presidential hopeful. Anonymous officials have told the press that Khalilzad has been making several phone calls a week to Zardari and planned an upcoming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tpp.reaxion.org/2008/08/27/friends-can-be-statesmen-but-can-statesmen-be-friends/</link>
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		<title>Should China have been allowed to host the Olympics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sam
Earlier this week, Chinese officials detained six Americans for protesting Chinese rule in Tibet. This is the latest round of aggressive action taken against foreigners during the Olympics. As the New York Times details:

Two photographers at the scene for The Associated Press were also roughed up and taken into custody, according to news agency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tpp.reaxion.org/2008/08/23/should-china-have-been-allowed-to-host-the-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Is it right to put an accomplice to death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sam
Twelve years ago Jeffery Lee Wood sat in a truck outside a convenience store in Kerrville,  Texas. Inside, his partner and roommate, Daniel Reneau, shot and killed Kriss Keeran, a cashier on duty at the store that evening. The killing, both say, happened because the robbery did not go according to the original [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tpp.reaxion.org/2008/08/21/is-it-right-to-put-an-accomplice-to-murder-to-death/</link>
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		<title>Do we have a right to harm ourselves?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sam
Debates over whether we have the right to harm ourselves often focus on especially serious cases, such as physician-assisted suicide. But an equally robust debate over self-harm involves ‘vice,’ such as gambling, smoking and drinking. The pendulum of American attitudes on vice has swung from extreme regulation and repression in the beginning of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tpp.reaxion.org/2008/08/01/do-we-have-a-right-to-harm-ourselves/</link>
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