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		<title>A Response to my Last Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had already planned to revisit my last post because while I wasn&#8217;t quite satisfied with it, I also didn&#8217;t want to lose the moment by endlessly tweaking it.  Commenter, Una, however, responded to a different point in the post, and gave me an even better cause and topic: when and how to admit you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1759&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today Is the Day My Specialization in Sub-Saharan Africa Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been avoiding this reality for some time, taking on an African country whenever a project demanded such a case study, ignoring the fact that many of my friends and colleagues are now more knowledgable about substantial parts of the continent than I am (even excepting that I haven&#8217;t managed to read more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1668&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Quantitative Analysis Papers Bore Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Schrodt&#8217;s &#8220;Seven Deadly Sins of Contemporary Quantitative Political Analysis&#8221;: The typical paper I receive has some subset &#8211; and often as not, the population &#8211; of the following irritating characteristics: A dozen or so correlated independent variables in a linear model; A new whiz-bang and massively complex statistical technique (conveniently available in Stata or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1665&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a rabbi&#8217;s partner is much like being that of a therapist AND politician&#8217;s partner, and not in the best ways of either. Therapists&#8217; spouses can&#8217;t know anything about the patients and thus no notion of what secrets their partner is carrying; then again, their privacy is gloriously intact. Politicians&#8217; spouses do know their partners&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1656&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Spent My Summer Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d love to say it was daring and adventurous, but other than a whole lot of &#160; &#160; and &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; and a little bit of &#160; it was rather typical. I spent last semester getting an A in my crime/corruption class. Yes, I&#8217;ve heard all the jokes, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1642&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Why I&#8217;m Going to Marry Him</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rabbi, to me, after Shabbat when I inform him that the head cold-from-hell that he gave me is now the sore throat-from-hell (worst engagement present ever):  &#8216;You&#8217;re not supposed to be sick when I can&#8217;t be there to take care of you!&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1639&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wherein I Declare, Take Pity on the Jews, for I Shall Be a Rabbi&#8217;s Wife!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that&#8217;s right, to answer GeorgeE&#8217;s question, I said yes to the rabbi, who asked me to marry him right before he gave me a cold and left the county.  Except for the head cold from hell part and the different time zones and countries part, we&#8217;re ridiculously happy.  So thank you, GeorgeE, for giving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1636&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Cartoons Get Their Game Face On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the rabbi&#8217;s basketball fandom wasn&#8217;t enough, this weekend marks the beginning of the World Cup.  I haven&#8217;t followed soccer since college, but it is in South Africa, so I love that.  In honor of both of my loves, here are some Thursday cartoons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1629&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Affairs of State: Third Annual YPFP Date Auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again!  This is one of my favorite parts of summer, because it combines great dresses, good music, dancing and ridiculous wonkery as we auction off some of the leaders in foreign policy.  Seriously, this is a make or break event for those in the know. Details here, and of course the awesome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1625&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Spent My Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working on 4 separate posts &#8211; none of them for D&#38;S &#8211; only to realize they&#8217;re all trying to say the same thing&#8230; which is not something I am currently willing to admit.  Clearly I will have to, soon, but for now I&#8217;m just going to ignore them in favor of Ice Road Truckers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydayidealist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518605&amp;post=1622&amp;subd=everydayidealist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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