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Well, these things are definitely true if one takes the page as a whole. But the SEs know how to tease out the content of individual posts in a blog and treat them each as a single unit. They also know how to tell the difference between syndicated content (i.e. AP/Reuters stories on CNN, Yahoo, MSN, etc) and duplicate content that is published as if it is original content.
That being said -- I don't think there'd be a serious penalty for the duplication, like losing PR or something, so much as Google wouldn't index your syndicated post in the same way that it would index an original post. I think Walrus found some good info on how this would play out. If you do something to make the syndicated post your own (like CNN, Yahoo, MSN etc often do with AP/Reuters stories) then you may be able to get the SEs to treat your version as original content.
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