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		<title>Ireland: Fine Country With a Familiar Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I got back from a six day trip to Ireland. Along with my wife, Megan, my sister, Ann, and my mother and stepfather, we toured Dublin, Galway, and the countryside. I found it to be everything I was expecting. The people are friendly but incredibly pale. Dublin was touristy, but still has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=506</link>
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		<title>Next Stop: Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, tomorrow Megan and I are heading for Ireland, by way of Atlanta. We&#8217;ll be exploring the Emerald Isle and will return next Monday. We&#8217;re both extremely excited; this will be my first time leaving the country in 20 years, the last time being a family trip to Toronto in 1990. Although I was outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=504</link>
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		<title>Mosque on 9/11 Site?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I was on the fence about whether I was for or against the building of a mosque so close to the Ground Zero site in Manhattan. As a New Yorker, although I wasn&#8217;t living here when 9/11 took place, I mourned with the rest of the country and shared their outrage, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=501</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Get Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this flick should have been Robert Duval Being Old and Crotchety: The Movie, because that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re getting here. Duval stars as the central figure of this fairly low-key tall tale, which is supposedly based at least partially on true events. He plays cranky old hermit Felix Bush, who lives in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=498</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Inception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Nolan has really been on a role the past few years. Since getting himself on the map with Momento, he singlehandedly relaunched the Batman series that Joel Schumacher did his absolute best to destroy, giving it credibility again, and now he comes at us with a thought provoking, inventive, clever thriller with Inception. Leonardo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=492</link>
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		<title>Artscape: A Snapshot of Baltimore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I had occasion to go to Baltimore with Megan, to help out with our homegrown company, Metropolis Soap. For those of you who aren&#8217;t regular readers of the blog, Megan has been pursuing Metropolis as a sole means of income for the past few weeks, and I&#8217;ve been doing whatever I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=488</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Predators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newest sequel with the Predator theme, starring the dredlocked creatures that first appeared in the Schwarzenegger original, is exactly what was advertised: a bloody return to the series&#8217; roots, with much of the same brooding menace that made the first one a success. People discount Predator 2 as being inferior to the original. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=483</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Toy Story 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it had been eleven years since the release of Toy Story 2, it could be argued that Pixar really needed to do this one right. After all, this was the franchise they pretty much hung their hat on; the original pioneered the sort of animation that would become typical of the studio, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=479</link>
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		<title>Doomsday Cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, my apologies for not having posted in a couple of weeks, but I&#8217;ve had relatives in town and I&#8217;ve been busy visiting with them; in addition to all of that, my computer finally just died, and I got a new one, a Compaq. I&#8217;m done with Dell. Their systems are nothing but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=473</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Time of Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, summer is upon us, and this always seems to be the time of year where I try to pack the most in. Maybe it goes back to when I was in school, where summer meant three months of leisure. It&#8217;s not quite the same now. Being a working stiff, I don&#8217;t really get all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevenfinkelstein.com/blog/?p=471</link>
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