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		<title>Am I a Bad Objectivist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tara Overzat “Years later she considered herself an authority on propaganda, based on her university experience,” wrote Jennifer Burns in her well-researched Ayn Rand biography “Goddess of the Market.” (p. 16) I have long told friends that The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged should be viewed as fables – not in that they are untrue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Heck, Rick Sanchez?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tara Overzat I moved to South Florida in 1991.  Being an eight-year-old I missed any chance of hearing that Rick Sanchez hit and paralyzed a man, Jeffrey Smuzinick, and fled the scene blowing a 0.15 blood alcohol level over an hour later. Granted, Smuzinick was reportedly intoxicated himself and stepped out in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Littlest Roar</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2010/09/22/the-littlest-roar/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-littlest-roar</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tara Overzat “Weep for yourself, my man, you&#8217;ll never be what is in your heart weep little lion man, you&#8217;re not as brave as you were at the start rate yourself and rake yourself, take all the courage you have left wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridging the Divide</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2010/06/18/bridging-the-divide/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bridging-the-divide</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tara Overzat ****************** I entered the story below into a contest. Even though it lost (boo!) Sean and I decided it deserved to see the light of day. So here it is! ****************** I saw a local commercial on PBS. Rose Price, a Holocaust survivor, was going to speak at Beth Hallel in observance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone Will Listen</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2010/03/30/someone-will-listen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=someone-will-listen</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media has recently been highlighting the depression that tweens, adolescents, and young adults experience. Truth is, people of all ages can feel overburdened and helpless and it is not a new problem. Click the link above to hear the WMA file.

~Tara Overzat]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Not Independent</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2010/03/13/we-are-not-independent/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=we-are-not-independent</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here- We Are Not Independent &#8211; WMA audio file Just a brief thought about how we as individuals aren&#8217;t ever alone, even when we are lonely. You can click the link above (it will take you to a second page where you can click the link again) to hear the WMA file. ~Tara Overzat]]></description>
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		<title>The Michael Jackson Tragedy- What Happens When You Don&#8217;t Deal With Your Past</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2009/07/03/the-michael-jackson-tragedy-what-happens-when-you-dont-deal-with-your-past/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-michael-jackson-tragedy-what-happens-when-you-dont-deal-with-your-past</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tara Overzat Michael Jackson died on my birthday. I received a text message from a friend at 6:09pm. TMZ was reporting the death well before any of the other news outlets. Everyone was shocked and saddened. I feel like Jackson was robbed of his last shot, his last chance to make things right. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being a &#8220;Nowist&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2009/06/30/being-a-nowist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=being-a-nowist</link>
		<comments>http://shyextrovert.com/2009/06/30/being-a-nowist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tara Overzat I struggle to live in the &#8220;now.&#8221; As kids, this was so easy. Why is it so hard as adults? Maybe becuase we can&#8217;t shake the shackles of our memories, both good and bad. We want to relive the good times too desperately, while the bad times continue to scare us and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Homeless&#8221; Guy follows 2 girls into Lindbergh City Center Parking Lot</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2009/06/13/homeless-guy-follows-2-girls/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=homeless-guy-follows-2-girls</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tara Overzat My neighborhood is a generally safe place, and until last night I never felt uncomfortable walking to and around the Lindbergh City Center restaurants/bars across the street from my apartment . My friend and I left Taco Mac just before midnight- she had parked right outside, but I was in a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor &#8211; More Than Just a Statistic</title>
		<link>http://shyextrovert.com/2009/05/27/sotomayor-more-than-just-a-statistic/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sotomayor-more-than-just-a-statistic</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tara Overzat Sonia Sotomayor has been widely praised for pulling herself up by her bootstraps and working her way out of the Bronx projects and first into the Ivy League, then into Law, and now into the limelight as President Obama&#8217;s first Sumpreme Court nominee, and in fact the first Latina to be nominated [...]]]></description>
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