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	<title><![CDATA[Not So Much: State of the Nation; More: State of Beyoncé]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-merrick/not-so-much-state-of-the-_b_39679.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>If there is one thing I can say for the Bush Administration, it's that it has trained me to practice, daily, the skill of quietly counting and deeply appreciating my blessings, to relish whatever good in the world I can see. I knew this was a habit to live by before 2000, but by now it's become, as for so many of us, an absolute, everyday necessity in order to retain sanity. For every sadistic illegal legislation, Halliburton payday, creationist...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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