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         <title><![CDATA[Twist in the Memorial Day weekend forecast: Raw, rainy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The unexpected development of a coastal storm off the Atlantic seaboard has dashed and dampened earlier outlooks for a sunny Memorial Day weekend.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:14 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: High hopes for the new BSO director]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The selection of a dynamic, still youthful but already widely experienced conductor as the Boston Symphony's next music director has major, positive implications not only for the orchestra but also for its annual summer residency at Tanglewood.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:41 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ruth Bass: Bird walks with experts are the best]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our lawn mower used to attract barn swallows in swarms. They would swoop over the tractor, barely missing the driver, while they harvested the insects the machine stirred up in the grass.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Ruth Bass, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 06:21:36 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[I, Publius: Letters I might have gotten]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Dear Doctor:<br>
I look forward to reading your advice -- it has helped me a great deal over the years. If everyone listened to you, the world would be a much better place. My boyfriend always thinks that he's right about everything. Now he says that all politics are fixed and nothing is what it seems. He isn't right, is he?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 05:21:51 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Stop texting and driving; pay attention]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/ci_23225557/clarence-fanto-stop-texting-and-driving-pay-attention?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Some of us are afraid of flying, even though statistics prove it's the safest mode of travel, by far. Few of us are afraid of driving, even though distracted motorists pose a real and growing danger, as Consumer Reports describes in a new report. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle </dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 May 2013 11:44:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ruth Bass: Preschool imprints sink deep]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/ci_23229558/ruth-bass-preschool-imprints-sink-deep?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[So often, you hear someone say, "My mother always told me ..." And whatever it was, it's stuck with that person right into adulthood.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Ruth Bass, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 May 2013 12:10:38 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Put an end to national embarrassment]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our war with Islam gives no hint of how many centuries we still have to endure before somebody pulls the nuclear plug deliberately or because they cut the wrong wire (blue or red?).]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 May 2013 06:22:20 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Past time for Lenox to resolve dispute]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[It appears that many, perhaps most, residents are keen to move on from the Kennedy Park Belvedere dispute that has mired the town in dissension and a legal thicket.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 May 2013 10:14:05 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Murray tells Alan about Mother's Day]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/ci_23220722/alan-chartock-murray-tells-alan-about-mothers-day?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with Murray, the world's cutest and smartest pup who was taught how to read at the Literacy Network of South Berkshire. If you live with dogs, I'm sure you've often wondered what the dog is thinking.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 May 2013 10:06:03 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock:What happens when we don't vote?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[If we don't vote or if we do vote but don't know a thing about who we are voting for, we leave most of the decision making in the hands of a relative few. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 6 May 2013 11:43:56 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Health care law overhaul concerns are plentiful]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/ci_23174939/clarence-fanto-health-care-law-overhaul-concerns-are?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[It may be that Capitol Hill Republicans will continue to block the three major goals of President Obama's second term -- common sense gun laws, immigration reform and the ever-elusive "grand bargain" to reduce the nation's $16 trillion national debt while preserving safety-net social programs.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 6 May 2013 11:43:22 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tired of the Tsarnaevs]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[So OK, we have two brothers, the older one a boxer and the younger one a wrestler.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 6 May 2013 11:42:29 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ruth Bass: Patience: A virtue in gardening]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/ci_23179023/ruth-bass-patience-virtue-gardening?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Never mind the hoe, rake, trowel or twine -- the main thing a gardener needs is patience. Having a garden is not the route to instant gratification. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Ruth Bass, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 6 May 2013 06:54:16 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lenox voters preserve funding to fight belvedere lawsuit]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.berkshireeagle.com/clarencefanto/ci_23167413/lenox-voters-preserve-funding-fight-belvedere-lawsuit?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Supporters of the Kennedy Park Belvedere lawsuit on Thursday night were rejected in their efforts to kill an $18,000 budget item to cover Lenox' legal bills to defend the suit. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle,</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 4 May 2013 00:46:28 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: 'Teaching is not about quick fixes']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[You really have to love Carol and Steve Ide. They are phenomenal human beings. They are both wonderful musicians who have played with the likes of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie as well as in the legendary Berkshire bands Boogity Shoe and Shenandoah.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 May 2013 12:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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