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		<title>A world always new and sometimes terrible</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/11/22/a-world-always-new-and-sometimes-terrible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You gave me gifts, God-Enchanter.
I give you thanks for good and ill.
Eternal light in everything on earth.
As now, so on the day after my death
- ...]]></description>
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		<title>West Indies cricket: Back from the brink</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/11/15/west-indies-cricket-back-from-the-brink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a blessing that the rush to the precipice halted just in time to save West Indies cricket. The danger loomed of break-up into ...]]></description>
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		<title>Saving our whole varied heritage</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/11/08/saving-our-whole-varied-heritage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not many Guyanese, I am sure, think about it but we have a National Trust whose high and shining objective is to preserve the national ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ringelmann’s Rope</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/11/01/ringelmann%e2%80%99s-rope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Whenever you hear that a Committee has been set up, reach for your worry beads. The overwhelming majority of Committees simply dilute the ...]]></description>
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		<title>A short visit with the T’angs</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/10/25/a-short-visit-with-the-t%e2%80%99angs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/10/25/a-short-visit-with-the-t%e2%80%99angs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can, every now and then it is good to escape the reality which you have settled into. Of course, youth is the time ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why acting rationally is rare</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/10/18/why-acting-rationally-is-rare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Ian McDonald
In any given situation we assume that people, including ourselves, will act sensibly. But that is not an assumption on which we ...]]></description>
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		<title>Of course, and for a  while, and never</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/10/11/of-course-and-for-a-while-and-never/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Towards the end of life – and when you are seventy-six and counting you are not very distant from the end – you ...]]></description>
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		<title>Centenary of a national treasure</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/10/04/centenary-of-a-national-treasure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of libraries! There are all kinds and degrees from the smallest village library to the great libraries of the world. All in their own ...]]></description>
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		<title>The great fire</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/09/27/the-great-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry. At seventeen, love-lorn often, I was writing it – very badly, full ...]]></description>
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		<title>What is real development?</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/09/13/what-is-real-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/09/13/what-is-real-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Having retired a couple of years ago after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along ...]]></description>
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		<title>Global warming – much  worse than we thought</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/30/global-warming-%e2%80%93-much-worse-than-we-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/30/global-warming-%e2%80%93-much-worse-than-we-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On sunday
In 2007 as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better ...]]></description>
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		<title>Our corner of this murdering star</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/sunday/08/23/our-corner-of-this-murdering-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/sunday/08/23/our-corner-of-this-murdering-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian on Sunday
I cannot escape the terrible feeling that such pitiless cruelty goes beyond brutality and mad violence. An element of pure evil enters the ...]]></description>
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		<title>What is Guyana’s index of wellbeing?</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/16/what-is-guyana%e2%80%99s-index-of-wellbeing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/16/what-is-guyana%e2%80%99s-index-of-wellbeing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
A man is murdered, a woman beaten and raped, a child horribly abused, a business robbed, a home terrifyingly invaded. None of these ...]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: The perilous art</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/09/poetry-the-perilous-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/09/poetry-the-perilous-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian on Sunday
What distinguishes human beings more than anything is their use of language. And literature matters profoundly because it is a central example of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kindled: a life-long love of sport</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/02/kindled-a-life-long-love-of-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/08/02/kindled-a-life-long-love-of-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Love of sport is woven into the fabric of my life. In my close family there were outstanding sportsmen, so ever since I ...]]></description>
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		<title>Memory of a birth</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/26/memory-of-a-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/26/memory-of-a-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Modern man has miraculous powers. He flies to the moon and soars beyond the sun. He creates wonder after wonder. His inventive capacity ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ian On Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/19/ian-on-sunday-90/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/19/ian-on-sunday-90/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extraordinary value in everything

All my life I have had an urge to preserve the extraordinary value of everything that I experience. I think it ...]]></description>
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		<title>A cricket mystery which needs explaining</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/12/a-cricket-mystery-which-needs-explaining/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/12/a-cricket-mystery-which-needs-explaining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian on Sunday
Why this glaring discrepancy between prowess in the short versions and generally abject failure in Test cricket? I am anxious to hear an ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ian On Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/05/ian-on-sunday-89/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/07/05/ian-on-sunday-89/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meteors
How is a great poem created? It is a mystery. It is like asking for an explanation of an exquisite square cut by Brian Lara ...]]></description>
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		<title>Learning how to live well</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/06/28/learning-how-to-live-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/06/28/learning-how-to-live-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian On Sunday
Education is important not simply for the implantation of specific information about specific subjects but, perhaps more importantly, for the passing on of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ian On Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/06/21/ian-on-sunday-88/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/06/21/ian-on-sunday-88/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconsolable loss
Of all the expressions of inconsolable loss I have read concerning the death of anyone greatly loved, the following lament by Henry James, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The insights of other minds</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/06/14/the-insights-of-other-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian on Sunday
Experience comes to us not just through our lives but as much, perhaps more as we grow old, through reading. The greatest books ...]]></description>
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		<title>To lend the passing moment words and wings</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/05/31/to-lend-the-passing-moment-words-and-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/05/31/to-lend-the-passing-moment-words-and-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 09:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian on Sunday
Why should flesh and blood men and women, with feet of clay like anyone else, presume to think for us and act for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ian On Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/05/24/ian-on-sunday-86/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 09:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘No ill or wrong will overmaster this’
There are some things that keep out the darkness that continually threatens in anyone’s life. Indeed there are some ...]]></description>
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