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	<title><![CDATA[The Humanities: America's Great Formative Tradition Succumbing to the Financial Crisis]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/the-humanities-americas-g_b_175063.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>America's greatness as a nation has had many pillars. The industriousness of its people, the braveness of it soldiers, the fervor of its visionaries, the national sense of shared community and destiny, its ability to right its wrongs, to name but a few. Yet paramount to our pillar of nationhood has been our understanding and reverence for the humanities and the great lessons of the human mind and the experience of history, the formative dimension of classical thought and instruction....</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-03-15T11:13:00-04:00</date_published>
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