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			<title><![CDATA[Neveah's Mom should never say she's sorry]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Poor little Neveah Buchanan.  The five-year-old Monroe girl who vanished from her mother's apartment house parking lot two weeks ago has touched hearts -- mine, included.  But she's also filling that weird societal niche we seem to reserve for innocent children who have evil befall them: they're]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:03:50</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pilots on the loose]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In her final awful minutes, Rebecca Shaw, the co-pilot on ill-fated Continental Connection Flight 3407, ran through female stereotypes with blinding speed. On its front page, The Wall Street Journal ran her comments in a huge block of damning type:


&quot;I&quot;ve never seen icing conditions.]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:40:06</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Waterboarding in Oakland -- for charity]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Activist Bruce Fealk, who dogged former U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg with a giant paper mache head, is now trying to whip up a waterboarding frenzy, and not at the Waterford Oaks water park: He's challenged Chetly Zarko, a Republican consultant and blogger, to a torture tete a tete: &quot;I'd give $10]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:22:21</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[High finance, small net]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is a situation that others -- Angelina and Brad come to mind -- must face after getting married. Which partner's bank gets the new business? I don't know where Angelina's son Maddox does his banking, but my daughter, age 8, has her own bank account. Her elementary school has a deal with Chase]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:19:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Flower Child at 70]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Judy Collins -- she of the cornflower blue eyes and coltish hair mane --will turn 70 on May 1.  Even so, she's still a flower child.  Her appearance at Planned Parenthood's luncheon at the Troy Marriott, when she entertained an audience of 325 people had a folkie feel: &quot;Let's get this out of]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:08:30</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jewel of Detroit has wet diapers]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Looking back on the history of the Cobo Center un-deal, Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. sounds like a stock advisor gazing backward: If only he'd sold his stocks for cash, and sent pink roses every day to Monica Conyers.


He imagined she'd fall into line, a presumption that instead inspired her to]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:22:57</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mark Fidrych and the Ivory Snow girl]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Weird, isn't it, that Mark Fidrych and Marilyn Chambers wind up in the obituaries on the same day? He was 54; she was 56. They were briefly sensations, the objects of mass adoration and attention, while in their early 20s. 


She was a porn star, whose &quot;Behind the Green Door&quot; drew]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:33:59</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Casting a new High School Musical]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One minute she&acirc;€™s a feminist intellectual, touting her law degree and her credentials. Then, Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers undermines her own case, with the exaggerated flair of a sitcom character.

After helping her brother get a job with the city ($30,500 a year), she]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:34:25</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ken Cockrel's revealing portfolio]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Any suspicions that Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. is a shrewd real estate speculator, or a reckless gambler, or an astute investor can now be shelved.

His newly released financial statement is instead touching in its humanity:  The mayor&acirc;€™s portfolio reflects the earnest and well-meaning]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:31:19</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Did Geraldine Ferraro really say that?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Geraldine Ferraro, once the first woman vice-presidential nominee, is providing grist for the Obama camp, now clamoring for her head.  But the comments she made to the Torrance (CA) Daily Breeze are similar, if not identical, to those she made at a Livonia event last Thursday.
The Daily Breeze]]></description>
			<author>(Laura Berman)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:49:37</pubDate>
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