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			<title><![CDATA[Review: 'The Twenty-Year Death' by Ariel S. Winter is 3-in-1 noir]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-07-29 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[--------------------


The Twenty-Year Death
A Novel

Ariel S. Winter
Hard Case Crime: 672 pp., $25.99
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Noir is, first and foremost, style. It's like kabuki, or, more to the point, the blues &mdash; a folk art defined by its...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hefty payouts, but few regrets]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-25 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Sen. Art Berman will draw a state legislative pension of $209,520 this year, highest among his peers and more than three times what he made as a lawmaker.

Former state Rep. Judy Erwin will collect $167,523, a pension spiked by a high-paying...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Generous rules govern aldermen's pensions]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-01 05:29:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When Chicago aldermen floated a proposal in 1987 to boost their city pensions dramatically, Mayor Harold Washington's administration dismissed it as an arrogant ploy that lacked even a cursory cost analysis.

Three years later, the proposal still didn't...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New reef created in Chesapeake Bay]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-11-02 16:12:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Concrete that once blocked fish from swimming up the Patapsco River to spawn has a new life as home for aquatic creatures at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay.

Water cannons blasted chunks of the demolished Simkins Dam off a barge Wednesday, completing...]]></description>
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