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	<description>greater than the sum of its parts</description>
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		<title>One At a Time</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/18/one-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Problems, like grapes, come in bunches. The world would be a more organized, better place if we only had to solve one problem at a time.
We’re in the middle of bailing out our financial institutions, and now we are told that if we don’t do something similar for the auto industry, Bad Things will happen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Four Years</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/04/the-next-four-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Confused by this? It was written yesterday, and will be published tomorrow in Citizen News. You&#8217;re not stuck in a time warp.
Election Day is behind us, and I hope by now we know who won. I wouldn’t blame the winner if he called for a recount, given what’s facing him in the next four years.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Deal</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/01/the-big-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/01/the-big-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s one good thing you can say about the financial crisis our country finds itself in: it is time for all parties to come together to solve this problem.
Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain said that. So did Democratic senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
There were other things they and other politicians said and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot First, Ask Questions Later</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/09/03/shoot-first-ask-questions-later/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/09/03/shoot-first-ask-questions-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SMNO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From where I sit, being President of the United States looks like a tough job. There are lots of decisions to make, each of which can have all sorts of wide-ranging, terrible repercussions.
All I have to do as a voter is make one decision. But that one decision is not easy. The campaigns have tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Right Words</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/08/27/finding-the-right-words/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/08/27/finding-the-right-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SMNO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://emergentink.com/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t plan on watching a lot of the Olympics, but the Michael Phelps story drew me in. I wanted to see whether Phelps could accomplish what he was setting out to do: win eight gold medals in swimming. So often, these Olympic stories are only so much hype, used to build interest and draw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Picture</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/08/06/the-big-picture/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/08/06/the-big-picture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Fairfield]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SMNO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://emergentink.com/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We would be able to do some pretty big things, as individuals and together, if we didn’t keep losing sight of the big picture.
The big picture is not a religion, or a political position, or a philosophy. It’s not the meaning of life. But it does give life some meaning.
The big picture is not big, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaction Time</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/07/09/reaction-time/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/07/09/reaction-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SMNO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than one person has told me that this column could use a road map. Sometimes I take the scenic route on the way to making a point.
We live in a world that demands instant gratification. Time and distance traveled are factors even here, in a written column.
I can&#8217;t help the occasional detour to Mount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our National Interest</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/06/11/our-national-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/06/11/our-national-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The foreign policy mess in which America finds itself in 2008 includes wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; a controversial policy for dealing with people we consider threats to our way of life that involves torture and prison camps; and a general feeling that as far as the rest of the world goes, those who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviving the Franchise</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/05/28/reviving-the-franchise/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/05/28/reviving-the-franchise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 20:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://emergentink.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Indiana Jones movie just opened. This one, the fourth in the series, revives the franchise with a story set twenty years after the original trilogy.
The Nazis are not around in 1957, so the bad guys this time are communists, specifically from the Soviet Union. Cate Blanchett plays a KGB agent. Some people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening to the People</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/05/14/listening-to-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/05/14/listening-to-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Fairfield]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SMNO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://emergentink.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans outside of New England think that a town meeting is a place where politicians answer questions asked by regular people. The politician’s answers are supposed to help those regular people, and anyone watching the event on TV, to decide whom to vote for in an upcoming election or primary.
There are different reasons why people [...]]]></description>
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