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	<title>The Affable Curmudgeon</title>
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		<title>OLD AGE AIN&#8217;T FOR WIMPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IF YOU CAN LAUGH AT OLD AGE, YOU CAN LIVE WITH IT The author of OLD AGE AIN&#8217;T FOR WIMPS, jack-of-all-trades Marv Rubinstein, has led an exciting life &#8212;   attorney,  engineer, author,  professor and  business executive. He   was for many years C.E.O. of Selectrons, Ltd., a small but   international company. He was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>My Newest Book</title>
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		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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		<title>IT’TY-BIT’TY ECONOMIES ADD UP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Senate and the House, rousing debate is now going on (or will be again when they return) on various aspects of bringing health care insurance into the 21st Century. One bitter difference involves bringing down costs. Democrats claim that substantial cost savings can be realized by nationalizing medical records so as to minimize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<title>SARAH PALIN IS A LOUSY MOTHER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world, particularly the political world, is full of hypocrisy, but there should be limits. Sarah Palin is the darling of the fundamentalist right and the anti-intellectual right. These are the very same people who constantly tout family values, motherhood and child care.        My liberated women friends will hate me for saying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=124</link>
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		<title>THE PROFESSOR GATES SAGA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The press, the media, the internet and the public got it all wrong.. So did the President. This bit of drama was not the result of prejudice against African Americans.  That may have aggravated the situation, but it was not the root cause.        To explain, let me tell you of the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=122</link>
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		<title>WHAT’S IN A NAME?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call it a moniker, a sobriquet, a diminutive or whatever, in everyday use, people tend to shorten the names of friends or associates, whether for informality’s sake or just for the heck of it.         As a word lover, I have always been intrigued by the fact that the same name, in its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<title>KINDERSPIEL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent a day watching the Sotomayer hearings on TV. I was appalled.  Was this a serious consideration by a major U.S, Government body of a well-qualified appointee to the highest court in the land? Not the way I viewed it. It was kinderspiel ––a serious piece performed by children.        True, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>RESENTMENT AGAINST EDUCATED MALES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent NY Times piece discussed the dangerous resentment and hatred that many Americans have for highly educated affluent women, who presumably think they are better than “normal” Americans. While in full agreement with these observations, this author wishes to point out that bright and educated American men are also subject to similar erroneous resentments. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>DEMOCRATIC SOUND BITES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, one wonders why political contestants, with their highly organized staffs, seem blissfully unaware of very effective attacks they can mount against opponents. Here are some totally unsolicited suggestions for Democratic sound bites to counter Republican sound bites. It would be better, of course, if neither side depended on brief sound bites. However, since liberal policies are less simplistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>A LETTER TO GOVERNOR SANFORD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Governor Sanford:        May I call you Mark?  Listen to my advice.  Mark, DO NOT RESIGN!. Resist the pressures of both Democrats and your fellow Republicans. I believe that you have been a good Governor.  That’s all that counts. Your personal life is your personal life.        Those demanding that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marvinrubinstein.com/blog/?p=108</link>
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