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    <title>Slate Magazine - Letter From London</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 01:20:18 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The British press lays into Cherie Blair's memoirs.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  We've all known occasions when someone does something she or he thinks endearing and is then dumbstruck by a quite unforeseen hostile reaction, but never has it been witnessed on this scale.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2191984/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>letter from london</category>
  <author>Geoffrey Wheatcroft</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:20:18 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>When will people realize that phones aren't private?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Although London and Detroit are a long way apart, temperamentally as well as geographically, our capital city and Motown have had something in common this week. They have both just illustrated one of the hazards of modern life: the fact that electronic communication is not as private as we might like to think. That and another danger that is much older: Be very careful what you write, and to whom.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2186028/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>letter from london</category>
  <author>Geoffrey Wheatcroft</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:00:25 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Is Robert Harris' new novel a portrait of Tony Blair?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Any novel that can push everyday politics off the news pages is both unusual and welcome, but if the book is itself a political novel, it may belong there. The Ghost, by Robert Harris, is a political novel and a half, by an author whose first career was writing about politics before he turned to popular fiction.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2175164/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>letter from london</category>
  <author>Geoffrey Wheatcroft</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:24:49 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Who is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Not many public figures achieve instant first-name recognition, but in England today, there is only one "Boris"—not Godunov or Karloff, but Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, newspaper columnist, former editor of the Spectator, Conservative member of Parliament, and now prospective Tory candidate for mayor of London. His family called him Alexander as a boy, but by cannily choosing to be known by his second name, Boris showed an early flair for publicity that hasn't deserted him.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2170736/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6387" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6387" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>letter from london</category>
  <author>Geoffrey Wheatcroft</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:23:56 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>"Salmanophobia" at home and abroad.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  "I am delighted for him," Ian McEwan said, when told that his friend and fellow novelist Salman Rushdie had been knighted. "He's a wonderful writer, and this sends a firm message to the book-burners and their appeasers." It would seem that the message was heard all too clearly, and not only in Iran and Pakistan.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2168759/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>letter from london</category>
  <author>Geoffrey Wheatcroft</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:41:44 EST</pubDate>
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