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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Teflon coating holding so far]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton duked it out in the final debate before the 2008 New Hampshire primary, Clinton -- then the front-runner -- was asked by the moderator if she had enough personal charisma to win.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 May 2013 10:48:54 EDT]]></pubDate>
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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[Clarence Fanto: Stop texting and driving; pay attention]]></title>
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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[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[Clarence Fanto: Health care law overhaul concerns are plentiful]]></title>
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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[Lenox voters preserve funding to fight belvedere lawsuit]]></title>
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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[Clarence Fanto: Gilded Age-era properties need help to survive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Three Gilded Age-era properties hereabouts are endangered -- but each can be saved with the help of local governments and voters.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:20:46 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Major land decision faces Lenox voters]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Political passions, simmering beneath the surface in this town for many months, have erupted full-steam ahead of the May 2 annual Town Meeting.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:27:57 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: A week of pride, chaos and disgust]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Shame and pride. What a cascade of emotions as a chaotic week ended on Friday with the astonishing, melodramatic, violent, almost unbelievable climax of the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers accompanied by the lockdown of Boston and its western suburbs.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle </dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:09:11 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: A rock and a hard place in Egremont]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA["The town faces difficult choices ahead." That's the succinct conclusion of a management study commissioned by the town of Egremont to examine the dysfunctional police department top to bottom, inside and out. Difficult? How about nearly impossible.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle </dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:58:38 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Town meeting chance for your voice to be heard]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" That age-old question, from the writings of philosopher George Berkeley in 1710, comes to mind as we approach the busy annual town meeting and election season in Berkshire County's 30 towns.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto,Special to The EagleENOX,</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:17:36 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Summer's sounding good, so far]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[With three more Popular Artists performances added to an already crowded summer slate, Tanglewood's goals are echoing loud and clear three months ahead of the first sounds of music in the 5,100-seat Shed.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:11:20 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Eye-opening visit for state safety chief]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[When Gov. Deval Patrick's new Secretary of Public Safety and Security, Andrea Cabral, visited the Berkshires on Friday to meet with local leaders, legislators and a bevy of police and fire chiefs... she said something quite candid and revealing.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto,Special to The Eagle,</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:27:24 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clarence Fanto: Our sickening health care costs]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Why are medical bills killing us?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Clarence Fanto, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:13:10 EDT]]></pubDate>
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