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		<title>A Love Story About Football</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Weiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a call from my friend Michael Gould about three years ago that first alerted me to a book called The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.  It was, he said, a love story about football.
Blind Side tells the true story of Michael Oher, a giant fifteen year old (six foot five, three hundred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Civic Health Is No Joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Weiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an op-ed piece written by Michael Weiser. In it he discusses the disturbing findings from the Illinois Civic Health Index — a study that tracks civic participation in his native state — which was released last week.
Older and Weiser readers may remember one of our recent posts—“Study Shows Civic Participation Declining in Recession” — about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistakes Were Made… and Other All-Purpose Expressions of Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a recent comment we received from an Older and Weiser reader. Resolved: &#8220;mistakes were made.&#8221;
-Blog Editor
In times of crisis, acting dumb or sneaky is a risky strategy
Mistakes were made. Maybe you heard about it. The phrase has been a particular favorite – especially among politicians – for some time now.
President Richard Nixon used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rabbis Coen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Weiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the urging of a dear friend, Joel Sneider, Julie and I went to see the latest offering from the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man.
I had heard a lot about the film as a parable of the biblical Book of Job and its depiction of 1960s Jewish life in America.  At the very least, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No $100 Hug</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Weiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the wedding of our own son still fresh in our minds, Julie and I were touched by the following article that appeared in the “Sunday Styles” section of this week’s New York Times. Written by the father of the groom, it is the story of a young couple serving in Afghanistan who come home [...]]]></description>
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