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		<title>The Rainbow Black Greeks: Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:wemilien@deftmag.com">Wayne Emilien</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fraternity Brother Lawrence C Ross Jr (Author of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities) notified me of a piece he did on being a black LGBT Greek.  It follows below.
Being a lesbian in a sorority sometimes means having to make  decisions heterosexual members don&#8217;t have to worry about. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK health system is top on &#8216;efficiency&#8217;, says report</title>
		<link>http://www.deftmag.com/news/uk-health-system-is-top-on-efficiency-says-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s health care system is the most efficient, says a study of seven industrialised countries.
The Commonwealth Fund report looked at five areas of performance &#8211; quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and healthy lives.
The US came last in the overall rankings, which also included data from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbas’ Fatah party averse to direct peace talks with Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian officials in President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party expressed reluctance on Friday to move from indirect to direct negotiations with the right—leaning government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Washington’s envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is in the region to push for direct peace talks, which the United States wants to launch before Israel’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House bills punish BP, boost drilling safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislation that could bar BP from getting new offshore oil leases in the United States passed another hurdle in Congress on Thursday while a separate bill to boost safety requirements for offshore drilling advanced through another congressional panel.
The legislation is among several dozen bills pending that would rewrite the regulatory rulebook and raise exploration costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least 27 dead in suicide attack on Iranian mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suicide attack on a mosque in south—eastern Iran killed at least 27 people and injured 167, the local governor said on Friday.
Two bombings took place late Thursday at the grand mosque in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan—Beluchistan province. The bombs went off within minutes of each other at the mosque’s gate.
Governor Ali—Mohammad Azad told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Cap, How Will Kenneth Feinberg Compensate the Gulf?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard that BP has successfully close all the valves on its new containment cap Thursday afternoon—effectively stopping the flow of oil for the first time in nearly three months as it began its well integrity tests—I was at a town meeting in Port Sulphur in Louisiana&#8217;s Plaquemines parish, ground zero for the oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP &#8216;accelerating&#8217; asset sales after Gulf oil spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British energy giant BP is speeding up the sale of up to 20 billion dollars (15.5 billion euros) of assets in a bid to boost funds after the Gulf oil spill, the Financial Times reported Friday.
The company is finalising details of the sales, including the disposal of American assets to Apache Corporation worth up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Californians divided on Arizona immigration law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[slight majority of Californians favor Arizona&#8217;s controversial law that makes illegal immigration a state crime and allows police officers in the Grand Canyon state to question people&#8217;s immigration status based on &#8220;reasonable suspicion,&#8221; according to a Field Poll released today.
However, the results are close and clearly divided along partisan lines. California voters approve of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4Elements: European Grafitti</title>
		<link>http://www.deftmag.com/features/4elements-european-grafitti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:wemilien@deftmag.com">Wayne Emilien</a></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Hip Hop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
While making my way around Europe, I was impressed by some of the graf work that has been done in some of the countries I&#8217;ve visited.  I find it to be one of the more unappreciated forms of hip hop artistry that there is.
This is a work in progress, but check it out.  If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts &#8211; BusinessWeek</title>
		<link>http://www.deftmag.com/news/brinkmanship-over-the-bush-tax-cuts-businessweek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="mailto:info@deftmag.com">DeftMag Staff</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, it was a given that President Barack Obama would make  good on his campaign pledge to let the Bush-era tax cuts that benefited  wealthy Americans expire at the end of this year. Ditto for his promise  to maintain the tax cuts for households earning up to $250,000 a year.
This being [...]]]></description>
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