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	<title><![CDATA[Cupid's Kalashnikov]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-laufer/cupids-kalashnikov_b_28654.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I've been on the receiving end these last few days of some harsh criticism for saying S<em>an Francisco Chronicle</em> photographer Darryl Bush's exquisite photograph of a solider leaving his girlfriend for Iraq was quasi-pornographic.</p>

<p>My critics are correct. I erred by suggesting it's quasi-pornographic. Drop the quasi. Bush's extraordinary snap is a spectacular example of the type of photograph Henri Cartier-Bresson characterized as a "decisive moment." But as used by the <em>Chronicle</em>, an image that in other contexts could be art...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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