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		<title>The Spoils of Suffrage</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2012/01/30/the-spoils-of-suffrage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was an undergraduate student, I was not yet a citizen, but I was blackmailed into registering for the Select Service, aka &#8220;The Draft&#8221;, in order to receive financial aid. This was a huge motivation for me to become a citizen. I wanted to have some say in the political process that might send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising Each Flight Like the Superbowl</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/02/09/advertising-each-flight-like-the-superbowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional Sports is an Excellent Marketing Model for the Airlines It is exceptionally difficult not to become furious&#8211;downright livid&#8211;with the state of the airline industry. As if the incessant prodding by Homeland Security weren&#8217;t enough, the advent of online booking began obscuring the actual price of flight tickets (How much will the taxes be? How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graffiti: RIP</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2010/03/12/graffiti-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calligraffiti Exhibit at Pacific Asia Museum People are saying altogether too much about graffiti. About six months ago, graffiti burst onto the mainstream art scene with a bevy of exhibitions touting the rise of erstwhile taggers to the level of masters. One lovely exhibit was the Calligraffiti exhibit at Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sword</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/09/the-sword/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gun-toting Pa. soccer mom, husband fo&#8230; &#8211; Google News Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. When will we be rid of the idiots who think that the sword is the only avenue there is? Can we expect them to annihilate themselves in such fits of passion, or can we have hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretending to Be a Pretend Musician</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/06/18/pretending-to-be-a-pretend-musician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DJ Hero confirmed for Wii, 360, &#8216;PlayStation&#8217; &#8211; News at GameSpot. Hyperreality has had many proponents  in its short, illustrious and extremely controversial tenure as a philosophical concept, but Activision&#8216;s DJ Hero may be the advent that may finally prove the validity, the truth contained in and the reality of hyperreality. Hyperreality refers to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Merits of Excellence</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/06/06/the-merits-of-excellence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SGI, Once Mighty Graphics Giant, Gobbled Up For Pittance &#8211; Wolfe&#8217;s Den Blog &#8211; InformationWeek Considering the number of innovative, pioneering corporations that have fallen by the way side or disappeared in the rapidly evolving technology sector&#8211;names like Digital Equipment Company, Netscape Communications, and Sun Microsystems&#8211;one comes face to face with the fundamental question regarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Humanity Need Auschwitz to Remember?</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/02/15/does-humanity-need-auschwitz-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Europe &#124; Should Auschwitz be left to decay? Never again. That has been the Holocaust survivors&#8217; mantra for over sixty years. How do we fulfill this mantra? While the concentration camps and death camps&#8211;Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Mathausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, and the many others&#8211;stood there preserved, genocide was carried out in Rwanda, the former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth about Israel&#8217;s Campaign in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/01/28/the-truth-about-israels-campaign-in-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/01/28/the-truth-about-israels-campaign-in-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt attacks Iran and allies in Arab world &#124; Reuters This much was clear to me from the beginning of this whole affair, but perhaps I should have aired my enlightened and apparently correct opinion here earlier so that I could prove it to everyone. Israel was eliminating Hamas in Gaza in order to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sympathy for the Devils</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/01/21/sympathy-for-the-devils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Middle East &#124; Iraq fails to sell Saddam&#8217;s yacht Whom should one pity? The billionaires whose failing fortunes prevented them from purchasing this ridiculous yacht (equipped with rocket launchers, gold plated amenities and an escape hatch leading to an escape submarine)? Or Saddam Hussein, the original owner of the yacht, who imiserated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of &#8220;Journalism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/01/21/the-state-of-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fate of Korean blogger Minerva bodes ill for journalism in Korea.]]></description>
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