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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:42:38 CDT </pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[  Silda Steps Out of Hiding ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[While the fictionalized &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; version of her husband's infamous sex scandal was airing on NBC last night, Silda Wall Spitzer emerged from 2 months of self-imposed exile to attend the Manhattan benefit for Children for Children, the Daily News reports. The wife of prostitute-patronizing former New York governor Eliot Spitzer launched the foundation in 1996.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 22 May 2008 10:30:04 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Spitzer Scandal Hits Small Screen Tomorrow]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[If disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was ever a Law &amp; Order fan, he probably isn't anymore. Tomorrow&rsquo;s ripped-from-the-headlines season finale on NBC tells a fictionalized version of the sensational sex scandal that doomed Spitzer&rsquo;s political career, the New York Post reports. Actor Tom Everett Scott guest-stars as a charming governor who is caught planning a rendezvous with a hooker.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 20 May 2008 11:56:10 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  6 Ways the GOP   Can Get Back on Its Feet ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Six months before an election in which some estimate Republicans could lose 20 seats in the House and five in the Senate, insiders tell Politico how the GOP can pick itself up:

    Write some policy. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s critical that our candidates have a very clear set of principles,&rdquo; says Mitt Romney. Think tax-cutting and spending-slashing.
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        <pubDate> Thu, 15 May 2008 13:50:04 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  DC Madam    to the   Big Screen? ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The DC madam may have committed suicide last week to avoid jail, but her story lives on. Literary agents are discussing doing a documentary on Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the New York Post reports, and have lined up biographer C. David Heymann to write a book about the sex industry, with Palfrey as the focus. &quot;Perhaps her life won't have been taken in vain,&quot; said agent Marianne Strong.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 13 May 2008 13:20:04 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ To Spitzer or Not to Spitzer? Playboy Answers Question]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Playboy's June issue introduces a new term into modern sexology parlance&mdash;&quot;to Spitzer&quot;&mdash;the New York Post  reports. The flesh mag defines the nod to disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as the act of asking a prostitute for sex sans condom, as in &quot;I Spitzered her, but she was like, 'Duh, not a chance, pal.' &quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 12 May 2008 09:05:02 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  NY Rep:   I Fathered   Love Child ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A New York City congressman already in deep trouble admitted today he has a 3-year-old daughter outside his marriage, Radar reports. Vito Fossella, the Big Apple&rsquo;s only Republican rep, was pulled over for DUI last week and rumors had since swirled that the former Air Force lieutenant colonel he called after his arrest was the mother of his child.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 08 May 2008 13:51:59 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ DC Madam as Feminist Entrepreneur]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Most know her as the feisty DC Madam who riled up the media by releasing her clients' phone records, but a half-finished memoir obtained by Newsweek reveals Deborah Jeane Palfrey's personal side. A small-town girl turned &quot;fuddy-duddy white lady,&quot; she overcame a stifling childhood to turn feminist entrepreneur. &nbsp; &nbsp;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 06 May 2008 09:49:50 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Ohio AG Keeps Job Despite Sex Scandals]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Ohio's scandal-hit AG has admitted having an affair, and apologized for his &quot;human failings&quot; in not cracking down on sexual harassment in his office, but doesn't plan to step down, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Marc Dann didn't name the woman, but his chief scheduler, whom he admitted spent the night at his condo, resigned yesterday. Dann fired two more aides and another quit after an internal investigation confirmed harassment charges.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sat, 03 May 2008 06:36:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Barbara Walters has revealed she had a long affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, America&rsquo;s first elected black senator. In a bombshell admission on a forthcoming episode of Oprah, the grande dame of TV anchors says the married Brooke&mdash;a moderate Massachusetts Republican who served in 1967-79&mdash;was &ldquo;exciting&rdquo; and &ldquo;brilliant,&rdquo; the AP reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 01 May 2008 15:47:35 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Sex Scandal Tees Are All the Rage]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Americans love their ironic T-shirts, especially when they make coy references to politicians' sex scandals. The Internet is awash with &quot;Client #9&quot; and &quot;Zippergate '98&quot; gear, but the phenomenon isn't restricted to the digital age. It's version 2.0 of the traditional smear campaign&mdash;&quot;as American as apple pie,&quot; one political analyst told Radar.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:40:11 CDT  </pubDate>
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