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		<title>Greece and Greeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thing that jumped out at me in reader comments on my article in Sunday&#8217;s NYT Magazine about how Greeks are living in the midst of crisis, and in emails to me, was how much raw and ugly vituperation there &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/greece-greeks">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greek to Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s it like to be living in an economy, and a country, that is imploding?  That&#8217;s what I tried to get at in my story about life in Greece in this week&#8217;s New York Times Magazine.  We have had endless &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/greek">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Is That Euro Worth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So one week ago, I’m at a dinner in Amsterdam and, inevitably, the topic of Greece and the euro comes up.  A Dutch book editor goes into a tart little diatribe about how outrageous it is for Greeks to have &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/euro-worth">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for the Wisdom!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to jump onto the Occupy Wall Street wagon.  Today’s New York Times: The Vatican called on Monday for an overhaul of the world’s financial systems, and again proposed establishment of a supranational authority to oversee the global economy, calling &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/wisdom">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Occupying More Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Occupy Wall Street spreads in its wondrous way (Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Pittsburgh, Nevada City, California), journalists are reaching the conclusion that the story to report on is the lack of a central storyline. As protesters gathered in Amsterdam, &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/occupying-space">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Are All Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article in the IHT today about how China is funding its global buying spree.  Ordinary Chinese wage-earners put a large chunk of their income into savings. But their only option is state-run banks, which pay interest rates that are &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/chinese">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.russellshorto.com/chinese</link>
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		<title>Cars and Bikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an op ed in the New York Times today on the topic of how American cities and European cities deal with cars&#8230; Amsterdam.  AS an American who has been living here for several years, I am struck, every &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/cars-bikes">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There is a New U.S. Report on Priest Sex Abuse: Be Skeptical!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 300 page report on the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal in the U.S. will be published today, and at first glance it seems both extremely comprehensive and deeply flawed. Its goal is to get at the causes behind the &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/u-s-report-priest-sex-abuse-skeptical">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.russellshorto.com/u-s-report-priest-sex-abuse-skeptical</link>
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		<title>Ireland and the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Magowan, a Dublin artist, checked in with some thoughts on my Irish Catholic Church story that appeared in the New York Times Magazine on February 9. Below are: 1) his thoughts; 2) a poem of his on the same &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/552">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.russellshorto.com/552</link>
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		<title>go ahead big dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Martin (mmartin600@gmail.com) is an American poet who lived for a long time in the Netherlands, and recently moved his dog-and-pony show to Raleigh, North Carolina.  He sent me some of his work recently. It&#8217;s the kind of stuff that &#8230; <a href="http://www.russellshorto.com/big-dogs">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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