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		<title>Items From Our Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITEM: The Halper Collection, the worlds largest private collection of baseball memorabilia, was recently sold at auction at Sothebys for more than $40 million. As baseball begins its biggest season ever, who know what treasures will soon come to market?
Item 1. Ty Cobb Blast Em Coin Bank
The ever-competitive Cobb held on to every dollar as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Sheen off the Candidate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Presidential candidacy of actor Martin Sheen, in the role of Josiah Bartlett, was broadsided today by claims that Sheen's Vietnam-era heroism in the role of Military Officer Benjamin Willard was based on false information. Opponents of Sheen-as-Bartlett have appeared to publicly dispute the oft-cited account of wartime valor so central to his campaign - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-Star Game, 2038</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Item: Baseball owners are working on a plan that would radically realign the major leagues.
“Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen.  I’m Bob Kostas and I’m here with Tim McCarver to bring you the 2038 Baseball All-Start Game, delivered to you in full hologrammic relief on the Microsoft/Citicorp Network, live from the Taco Bell (A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Cuts of the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2001 15:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Bush's tax program, described by rat-race-losing malcontents as a sop to the nation's idle rich, is poised to pass the Congress and will soon be signed by the President in a Rose Garden ceremony, after which key Republican and Democratic legislators (except Jeffords) will receive ceremonial crayons, the special kind with glitter mixed right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative History: The Inaugural Address of President Elian Gonzalez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 20, 2049
My fellow Americans.
It is with great pride and honor that I say muchas gracias, Estados Unidos, and take the Oath of Office as the fifty-first President of the United States.
I cannot help but think back to the day I first set a trembling, wet foot onto this great country’s soil, a boy on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery Woman Appears</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/1998/08/the-mystery-woman-appears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secret Transcripts of the Starr Chamber Grand Jury Proceedings
Prosecutor: We will begin the questioning with Juror Number One.
#1: Yes, thank you. Do you know anything about Madison Trust?
Monica: Wasn't he a President?
#1: No, the bank. Did you help the President obtain an illegal loan?
Prosecutor: No, no, that was the illegal loan. Now we're talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Sprat Speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 1992 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He walks out of the paddock door, his gait gangly but brisk. Your first thought is the one everyone has...Jack Sprat is still lean.
“Oh, sure,” he smiles, sitting angularly on a nearby bench. “I still hear it all the time — lean, gaunt, lanky, scrawny. But however you say it, that’s me,” he smiles. Traces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Life of Giffen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 1986 16:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Author’s Note: Giffen, a Victorian-era economist, discovered a class of goods for which demand fell instead of rose when prices fell.	So-called “Giffen goods” are the exception to the laws of supply and demand taught toi every economics undergraduate ever since, offering a low-key immortality to an otherwise unexceptional economist of a bygone age.
Written with my [...]]]></description>
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