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		<title>Don Bachardy: Part 2 of 3</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, August 18 2010 02:30:36 PM Born in 1934, renowned portrait artist Don Bachardy, now 76, was only 18 when his 33-year relationship began in 1953 with writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986). They first met on a beach in Santa Monica, California. After renting from my aunt in the Santa Monica canyon, they moved into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Bachardy: Part 3 of 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, August 25 2010 03:41:46 PM   Artist Don Bachardy’s Hollywood movie career was very brief, indeed. Having begun in January 1953 what would become a 33-year relationship with acclaimed writer Christopher Isherwood, at age 20 Bachardy came along as the guest of Isherwood’s long-time friend, playwright Tennessee Williams, to look in on the filming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Partisanship Soils F.C. Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, August 25 2010 05:25:50 PM It came to our attention just this week that the website for the Virginia Values Voters political action committee, linked to the arch-conservative Family Research Council, reported in May that two Falls Church City Council candidates elected on May 4 had done so with the endorsement of the Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 ARTICLES ON JOHNNY WEIR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lengthy blog entry consists of six major stories/commentaries about figure skater Johnny Weir that I have written that have appeared in the Falls Church News-Press between March 2004 and January 2007. The most poignant to me is the report of January 19, 2006, which had been hacked off the FCNP website, in which Weir called himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW WEBB GOT INTO THE RACE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an article from the June 21, 2007 edition of the Falls Church News-Press: ONE YEAR AGO: HOW A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CHANGED THE COURSE OF U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY By Nicholas F. Benton It was just a year ago, on June 13, 2006, that Falls Church resident James Webb bucked the Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAY IDENTITY &amp; COSMIC DISSYMMETRY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my column from the August 2, 2007 edition of the Falls Church News-Press (www.fcnp.com). It is a cleaned up version, so to speak, of a blog entry I posted here earlier in ths week: THE 8% SOLUTION By Nicholas F. Benton We now have something purportedly definitive about the cause of left-handedness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VAN MORRISON&#8217;S &#8216;MAGIC TIME&#8217; IN ATLANTIC CITY Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The following is the second of two articles I am posting here now on the music of Van Morrison that I&#8217;ve published in the Falls Church News-Press, this one appearing June 16, 2005. It could be said that the words to the greatest love duet of the modern rock genre is sung by one person and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;VAN THE MAN&#8217; BETTER THAN EVER  Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The following is the first of two articles I am now posting here about the music of Van Morrison that I&#8217;ve published in the Falls Church News-Press, this one on June 19, 2003.   There is little dispute that, except for Bob Dylan, few people have had more influence on the development of music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LARRY CRAIG’S ONLY WAY OUT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my column published in the August 30, 2007 edition of the Falls Church News-Press: With the events of this week, it&#8217;s starting to seem like the entire right wing in America is made up of some combination of self-loathing closet gays, brazen hypocrites, and downright mean people. The only question is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ASSASSINATED?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The following was published in the Dec. 8, 2005 edition of the Falls Church News-Press. It was based on original research done by me in 1981, in the months following the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan at that time, in response to the popular discourse that followed it on the notion that every U.S. president [...]]]></description>
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