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	<title>Graeme Wood</title>
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		<title>Graeme Wood</title>
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		<title>Cullen Murphy&#8217;s new book on the Inquisition</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2012/01/29/cullen-murphys-new-book-on-the-inquisition/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2012/01/29/cullen-murphys-new-book-on-the-inquisition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed it for The Daily. Click to read.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=743&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a Poseur</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2012/01/27/death-of-a-poseur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan &#8220;Jack&#8221; Idema, the pseudo-mercenary who was jailed after being convicted of operating a private prison in Kabul, died of AIDS in Mexico last week. For the International Herald Tribune, I visited his semi-abandoned office building in Fayetteville, N.C., and found chains on the doors.  Idema&#8217;s adjoining apartment, where he allegedly conducted his assignations, had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=639&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Babel No More</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2012/01/25/babel-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed Michael Erard&#8217;s Babel No More, about language learners who are both way more talented and way more obsessed than yours truly, for The Barnes &#38; Noble Review.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=655&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freed Press</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2012/01/01/freed-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Monthly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last year, USAID hired me to teach a seminar about journalism to Libyan journalists.  I wrote about the experience in the current Atlantic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=664&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Turkish Assad?</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2012/01/01/a-turkish-assad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International Herald Tribune]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is scarier: a government that hunts down and kills dozens in cold blood, or a government that hunts down and kills dozens by accident? Read more at the IHT.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=642&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arms and the Men</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/18/arms-and-the-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of Andrew Feinstein&#8217;s The Shadow World. Originally appeared in The Daily. The premise of Andrew Feinstein’s book “The Shadow World” is that humanity owes much of its war and misery to a dark cabal of arms dealers, corrupt politicians and defense contractors. This cabal runs on money (lots of it), cocaine and influence. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=636&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mercenary Hires Self, Has Fool for a Client</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/16/mercenary-hires-self-has-fool-for-a-client/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/16/mercenary-hires-self-has-fool-for-a-client/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed Simon Mann&#8217;s memoir, Cry Havoc, for The National. John Blake Publishing Ltd Dh51 Everyone&#8217;s favourite kind of coup d&#8217;état is the bloodless one: El Presidente is surprised in his pyjamas, or while shopping in London, his trusted military aides turn out to be snakes, and he ends up, along with his loyalists, either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=662&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Barnes &#38; Noble Review published a few of my words on the death of Hitchens.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=657&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clinging to the Egyptian Army</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/06/clinging-to-the-egyptian-army/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/12/06/clinging-to-the-egyptian-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International Herald Tribune]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited Nag Hammadi for the IHT and found an Egyptian Wild West. Read my story here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=644&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan Oil Fields Not a Curse &#8212; Yet</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/11/14/afghan-oil-fields-not-a-curse-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/11/14/afghan-oil-fields-not-a-curse-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited the northern oil fields of Afghanistan. Read about it at the IHT Global Opinion site.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=647&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrence Malick and Wael Ghonim</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/11/01/terrence-malick-and-wael-ghonim/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/11/01/terrence-malick-and-wael-ghonim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about Terrence Malick and Wael Ghonim for The Atlantic&#8216;s &#8220;Brave Thinkers&#8221; package.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=666&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microrevolutions off Tahrir Square</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/11/01/microrevolutions-off-tahrir-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on the IHT&#8216;s Latitude blog. CAIRO — It has been nearly three months since the last really big, unmanageable crowd converged on Tahrir Square and threatened to stay until its demands were met. On the eve of Ramadan, in early August, the Egyptian military smacked and clubbed that group — a broad but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=650&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina Town Sitting on Gold Mine</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/10/23/south-carolina-town-sitting-on-gold-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://gcaw.net/2011/10/23/south-carolina-town-sitting-on-gold-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Daily: KERSHAW, S.C. — Let the gold rush begin at what will soon be the only active gold mine east of the Mississippi River. A Canadian company has just announced plans to reopen a historic mine in this small Southern town with a depressed economy and double-digit inflation. It believes there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=632&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Twin Towers</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/09/11/the-twin-towers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in The Daily. The World Trade Center site is now hallowed ground, and to denigrate the architecture of its enormous rectangular towers is vaguely uncouth, as if to denigrate not just the towers but the great city that produced them. But critics were not always so respectful. When the towers went up in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=691&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jersey Gore</title>
		<link>http://gcaw.net/2011/09/01/jersey-gore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally appeared in The Daily. For today’s summer vacationers, the Jersey Shore presents few dangers worse than bad calzone, unwanted encounters with reality TV stars, and venereal disease. But the beach bums of yesteryear faced a danger much more terrifying, and not curable with a dose of Imodium or penicillin. It measured about 10 feet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcaw.net&#038;blog=3047424&#038;post=680&#038;subd=gcaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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