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    <body><![CDATA[Regardless of whatever flaws this book may contain, I cannot give it any less than five stars.  I so greatly admire Naomi Wolf for having the courage and audacity to warn her fellow Americans about what is still happening right under their noses. <br/><br/>Other reviewers here have covered the det...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38924343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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