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<title><![CDATA[GPS's Lady Macbeth Drives to Madness]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ On the drive back from taking my daughter to summer camp, the assured, honeyed voice of my GPS guide told me to take the next right off the highway. It was onto Skunk Hollow Road, which I didn't remember encountering on the way to camp and whose name didn't inspire a desire to linger. But who was I to doubt my GPS lady when she rang her double-toned, time-to-turn signal? So I turned. Then she told me to turn again, and again, and soon I was bumping along unpaved road. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Yoffe]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Reich]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[D.C. Council Needs Transparency in Hiring]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I was heartened on Wednesday afternoon when an e-mail arrived from D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray's communications director, Doxie McCoy, advising me that the chairman would be issuing a statement of council procedures in light of media requests for comment on council member Marion Barry. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colbert I. King]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[How the U.S. Can Help the Uighurs in Western China]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Unrest in China's far western region, known as Xinjiang, should not come as a surprise. The communist authorities maintain intense and unrelenting pressure on Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group. Over the past week, the violence that has killed at least 156 and injured hundreds more came after the ethnically motivated murder of two Uighur migrant workers late last month. Communist Party control of the media makes it difficult to know what actually happened when initially peaceful protests became riots. Chinese authorities have arrested hundreds, sent in troops and begun a propaganda campaign against the Uighurs. While majority Han Chinese have been photographed armed with baseball bats, axes and pipes, government control of the media ensures that most Chinese will absorb official propaganda depicting Uighurs as terrorists.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2811115310003" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2811115310003" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Bork]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[In Afghanistan, Trampled by the 'Civilian Surge']]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ KABUL -- The new commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, announced: "The Afghan people are at the center of our mission. In reality, they are the mission." The four-star general was wearing military fatigues, but his wording sounded civilian. Indeed, when President Obama explained in March how the United States plans "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan," he ordered a "civilian surge" in Afghanistan. But make no mistake: The civilian part of the coalition operations here is subservient to the military arm, and the two are known together as an "integrated approach." ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Husarska]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Feminism in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Being an educated, professional woman in Afghanistan could not have been easy at any time during the last few decades. I recently met with a group of female government officials, brought to Washington by USAID and the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council. One, during the Taliban years, had run an underground school in her home for the criminal purpose of teaching girls. Another had built a community development program employing 25,000 Afghan women before she was put under close guard by the Taliban. Her home was looted, and her children were threatened with kidnapping. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Gerson]]></dc:creator>
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