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    <title>Slate Magazine - High Concept</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:14:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Could vote-pairing put Kerry over the top?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Four years ago today, I wrote a piece for Slate called "Nader's Traders: How To Save Al Gore's Bacon by Trading Votes on the Internet." The article suggested Internet "vote-pairing" coalitions between Nader sympathizers in swing states like Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin and Gore sympathizers in safe Republican states like Texas, Alabama, Utah, and Mississippi. After meeting each other on Internet vote-pair sites, the Nader sympathizers would announce their decision to vote for Gore, the Gore sympathizers for Nader, in a nationwide grass-roots effort to advance multiple common objectives. Gore would win the popular votes he needed in swing states to reach 270 in the Electoral College while Nader would continue his climb to 5 percent in the national popular vote, his campaign's unofficial goal in order to qualify the Green Party for federal financing. Rather than savaging each other, progressive Democrats and Greens could ally to stop Bush.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2108641/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>high concept</category>
  <author>Jamin Raskin</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:14:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Raising rich white kids.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Very often, when black people see me alone with my white-looking biracial children, they demand to know that I'm going to teach them that they're black. They do this with great seriousness, usually glaring into my eyes as if they caught me about to steal change from the collection plate. (Most whites, on the other hand, either think I'm the nanny or search for a polite way to ask if they're my biological children.) This question is not rhetorical. They wait, squint-eyed and ferocious, for an answer. Much as I'd like to say, "Damn skippy they're black. Holla," the anal-retentive, extra-credit-loving hall monitor in me has to ask: "But why doesn't my husband's culture and DNA count?" Then, without fail, the hysterical, spittle-inflected tirade begins: "They're just niggers to the cops," such a person will say, or "Self-hating" blah blah, "You think whites will accept them?" etc. I can't imagine a more pointless or less dignified discussion.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2106128/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>high concept</category>
  <author>Debra Dickerson</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:03:16 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Racist like me.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In a nation riven to its very core by race, I appear to be the only remaining racist. Off and on, I'm homophobic and anti-Semitic, too, but mostly, I'm racist. Yet unlike the rest of you, I'm honest about it.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2104994/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>high concept</category>
  <author>Debra Dickerson</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:09:23 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The thrilling result of our Mount Everest artifact auction.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Sold! The thrilling result of our Mount Everest artifact auction.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2084170/?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=5745" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=5745" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>high concept</category>
  <author>Alex Heard</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:36:20 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The Patch: the creepiest artifact in Mount Everest history.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Are you looking for a smart place to invest some money? Can't help you. Are you looking for an exciting place? You're in luck. I'm selling two items from a lively niche of the collectibles market known as "exploration artifacts"—a term for the equipment, journals, and other goods used by people like legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, Himalayan climbing great Sir Edmund Hillary, and 19th-century African bwana Sir Henry Morton Stanley.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2082195/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>high concept</category>
  <author>Alex Heard</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2003 11:14:47 EST</pubDate>
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