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		<title>Gold Futures: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/gold-futures/introduction/969/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Issue

Romania is a place where change and continuity collide. One of the EU's newest members, Romania is working to follow in its European neighbors' footsteps, trying to develop a strong economy, with viable industries that will provide its citizens with adequate jobs. The mining industry in Romania has historically been a steady source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beslan: Seige of School #1: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some call it "Russia's 9-11." The siege of School No. 1 in the Russian town of Beslan on September 1, 2004 was the bloodiest act of terrorism in Russia since Chechnya declared independence in 1991. As the trial of the only terrorist who survived the siege begins, this wrenching film examines the three-day ordeal that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Tigers: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/turkeys-tigers/introduction/367/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey sits at a cultural and geographic crossroads where the Eastern and Western worlds meet. Historically a devoutly Muslim country, Turkey -- from the volatile eastern Kurdish region near the Iraqi border, to the industrial central region of Anatolia, to the world-class city of Istanbul -- is today anything but homogeneous. As it enters what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2009, Waterford Crystal went bankrupt. The company’s main factory, in Waterford, Ireland, was closed, and 480 people were fired. Many of them had worked there for more than forty years. But the Waterford workers refused to give up their jobs without a fight. They staged a sit-in that lasted for almost two months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Interview with Veteran GM Worker Brian Larkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's loss of an iconic brand of muscle car parallels Ireland's loss of Waterford Crystal in Raise the Last Glass. General Motors originally manufactured Pontiac Firebirds, GTOs and Trans Ams in Pontiac, Michigan.  The cars were driven by Burt Reynolds in the movie Smokey and the Bandit and were almost characters unto themselves in TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Filmmaker Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Kennedy 
I’m Irish, but I’ve lived away from the country for almost ten years. This has helped me recognize what is special about the people there.
The thing that struck me most about the workers at Waterford Crystal was their good humor at a time when they were under immense financial and emotional pressure. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the New Administration</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/meet-the-new-administration/4129/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, George Mitchell, Leon Panetta, Susan Rice, Dennis Ross, Gene Sperling and Tom Vilsack all have in common? They're all expected to serve in high-level positions in the Obama administration, and they've all appeared as distinguished guests on WIDE ANGLE. Watch the videos below to hear what members (and potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gutted: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/gutted/introduction/457/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/gutted/introduction/457/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For generations, the West family and thousands of other fishermen in the Scottish Fleet have trawled for cod in the North Sea. But as commercial over-fishing has decimated the whitefish population off the coast of Scotland, their livelihood is on the verge of collapse. The Wests' hometown of Fraserburgh is caught between European Union laws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Blessings: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/mixed-blessings/introduction/963/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/mixed-blessings/introduction/963/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

"Mixed Blessings" looks at Ireland's dramatic transformation from a poor nation of rolling green fields, farmers' pubs, and devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized and giddily flush society. In this program, WIDE ANGLE visits the city of Limerick. Once a slum known as "stab city" and the impoverished setting of the best-selling memoir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Smoke: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/white-smoke/introduction/954/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/white-smoke/introduction/954/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

This episode of WIDE ANGLE chronicles the life of the Vatican in the days between the announcement of Pope John Paul II's death and the election of the new pope by a conclave, the group of more than 100 cardinals who gather in Rome's Sistine Chapel for this historic vote. Filmed over three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young, Muslim, and French: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/young-muslim-and-french/introduction/933/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

France's recent decision to ban the wearing of traditional Muslim headscarves in public schools -- a law widely perceived in the Muslim community as an undemocratic expression of "Islamophobia" -- has increased tensions between the French Republic and its largest minority population, numbering about five million people. WIDE ANGLE explores this conflict in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prime Minister and the Press: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-prime-minister-and-the-press/introduction/913/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-prime-minister-and-the-press/introduction/913/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. Photo by Alberto Ramella.



About the Film

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders recently ranked Italy at the bottom of the list for countries in the European Union on its press freedom index. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is not only Italy's richest man, but also the unrivaled owner of a vast media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media by Milosevic: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/media-by-milosevic/introduction/851/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/media-by-milosevic/introduction/851/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About The Issue

The most successful and most brutal European dictator since Hitler, Slobodan Miloseviç played the trump cards of nationalism and racism in his rise to power. Once in office, he performed an intricate balancing act, controlling information and the media to safeguard his reign and accomplish his ends -- which included concentration camps and [...]]]></description>
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