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	<title><![CDATA[It's Official:  New Orleans Declared No Longer Part of the U.S.]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/its-official-new-orleans-_b_39620.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>When Hurricane Katrina wiped the city of New Orleans off the map in August, 2005, there were a surprising many who followed President Bush's lead of denial that such a thing actually occurred. The denial evidenced by his playing air guitar in California during the disaster and then flying over, while his Secretary of State Ms. Rice went on a shoe-buying spree in the Big Apple and caught a Broadway musical.</p>

<p>(That there was this denial should not come as any...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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