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<title><![CDATA[President Who?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ WHO DO I call if I want to call Europe, Henry Kissinger once famously asked. For eight years European federalists labored to produce an answer to that question -- staging a constitutional convention, ignoring repeated rebuffs by voters and bullying skeptical small countries. At a summit on Thursday they delivered a mouse: a new president and foreign policy chief for the European Union whose obscure backgrounds and lack of experience virtually guarantee that they will not supplant national leaders as figures on the world stage or as interlocutors with Washington. That's probably just as well. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The jobs jam]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ ONE OUT OF 10 American workers will not have a job for which to express gratitude this Thanksgiving. If you add what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls "marginally attached workers" and those who want to work full time but can find only part-time jobs, then the true employment picture looks even bleaker: 17.5 percent of the labor force is now either unemployed or underemployed. This is a disastrous situation, and you would expect voters to pressure the White House and Congress to address it. You would also expect the federal government to respond. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Save the vouchers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ OPTIMISM THAT the District's federally funded school voucher program will be allowed to flourish is fading. Leading Democrats say that they are open to letting new students enter the program, but efforts to make that a reality seem to have stalled. Indeed, it appears that some Democrats' idea of saving the program is simply to let it slowly wither away. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. could help disrupt China's Internet censorship]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE MOST interesting question President Obama fielded in China came over the Internet, via the U.S. Embassy, from a Chinese citizen who asked, "Do you know of the firewall? Should we be able to use Twitter freely?" In response, Mr. Obama, speaking at a town hall in Shanghai, did not directly address China's massive Internet censorship operation -- "the firewall" -- and he confessed that he does not use Twitter. But he said, "I'm a big supporter of not restricting Internet use, Internet access, other information technologies like Twitter."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171428749" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171428749" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress has a role in investigating Fort Hood attack]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS are almost always right to try to shield a criminal investigation from outside interference. Public pretrial statements by witnesses, for example, could be used by others to shape their testimony; evidence could be corrupted if not handled properly. And those directly involved could escape accountability if they are given immunity to testify before Congress. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Federal oversight of light-rail, subway safety is past due]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ IT'S A SHAME that it has taken accidents, deaths and injuries for the federal government to wake up to the danger posed by inadequate, and in some cases nonexistent, oversight of many or most subway and light-rail systems around the nation. By the same token, it is to the Obama administration's credit that it has begun grappling with this intolerable problem after less than a year in office. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Senate sets hearing on Bernanke's renomination]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:32 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee said on Friday it will hold a hearing on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's renomination to a second term on December 3, putting the central bank chief under scrutiny at a time when the Fed is facing intense criticism in Congress. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SuperFeedr Wants To Speed Your Feeds]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:29:49 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The first randomly selected audience winner today at the RealTime CrunchUp is SuperFeedr. They are an API service that works with both XMPP and PubSubHubbub (which launched at the first CrunchUp) to create realtime content feeds.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171431975" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171431975" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chairman Gray's dealings warrant investigation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Vincent C. Gray (D), chairman of the D.C. Council, says he was just trying to be helpful when he solicited a $20,000 contribution for Democratic Party activities at last year's national convention. He also says there was nothing improper about home repairs done at his Southeast residence by a company affiliated with a major D.C. developer. An independent look into both these matters would serve the interests of both Mr. Gray and the city. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Senate's merged health bill isn't perfect, but it'll do]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE HEALTH-REFORM legislation unveiled Wednesday night deserves to be considered on the Senate floor. This is the only real question facing wavering senators who have concerns about particular provisions or about the overall reach and cost of the measure. The right answer is to allow the proposal to go forward. If senators are unhappy with the final result, on the Senate floor or after a House-Senate conference, they can vote no. But there is no justification for refusing to proceed to floor consideration. The issue of health reform -- both extending coverage to the uninsured and controlling health-care costs -- is too important to abandon at this stage. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A fatal shooting by Fairfax police remains unexplained]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ LAST FRIDAY, a Fairfax County police officer shot and killed an unarmed man who sat at the wheel of his sport-utility vehicle on Route 1 in heavy traffic just south of the Capital Beltway. It was lunchtime, and there was no shortage of witnesses. Now a week has elapsed, and police have not provided an explanation. What gives? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Montgomery can't afford higher pay for county workers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ STRUGGLING to balance their budgets, many local governments in Maryland have frozen salaries for county employees and teachers, cut wages through unpaid furloughs, eliminated unfilled jobs and fired workers. The state government's workforce has fared no better. That's something for Montgomery County officials to bear in mind as they conduct crucial contract negotiations with public employees' unions while facing the prospect of more than $400 million in cuts to the projected $4.3 billion budget that takes effect next summer.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171437411" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171437411" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Closing in on a target for carbon emissions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ CLIMATE CHANGE was at the top of President Obama's agenda in China Tuesday, just three weeks before representatives from 192 countries meet in Copenhagen for a much-anticipated international climate conference. And he came tantalizingly close to saying what the rest of the world has been waiting years to hear: that next month the United States, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases, will finally come to the table with a specific carbon reduction target. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An unfair policy on AIDS is lifted]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE UNITED STATES is a leader in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to assist those living with the disease and to help the uninfected stay that way. But since 1987, there has been a blot on that leadership. While the United States was urging an end to the stigma that keeps people from protecting themselves, getting tested and seeking treatment, it was one of 12 nations perpetuating that stigma by enforcing a ban on entry by people who are HIV-positive. That ended last month when President Obama lifted the prohibition. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TweetPhoto CEO Says Too Much In Interview, Gets Fired. And That's Just The Beginning?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:26:14 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ This story just screams amateur hour, although I can't figure out exactly who's the amateur. Maybe everyone. A CEO says too much in an interview and gets fired. Lawyers go after the blogger to get content removed. And a partner is pissed off. Not bad for a day's work. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed's Bullard says shrinking reserves key to exit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:01:35 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A senior Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday the U.S. central bank may start tightening financial conditions by adjusting its extensive asset purchase programs rather than raising interest rates.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171447391" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171447391" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mr. McDonnell's albatross]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ RELIABLE NUMBERS are hard to come by, but at a very conservative guess there are tens of thousands of Muslims living in Virginia. Now one of the top financial donors to Robert F. McDonnell, the state's governor-elect, has smeared them all by saying that their faith is not a religion at all, but rather a "violent political system." Doesn't Mr. McDonnell owe them and other Virginians some reassurance that he doesn't share Pat Robertson's despicable view? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New advice on tests for breast cancer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ WOMEN AGES 40 to 49 who do not have family histories of breast cancer should no longer be routinely given mammograms. Nor should all women be taught how to do breast self-exams. Those were two of the recommendations from an independent federal task force that were bound to be controversial. With breast cancer being the second-leading cause of death among women in the United States, the uproar over the change in guidelines is understandable. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Blade: A paper that provided a critical voice deserves resurrection.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE FINANCIAL problems of Window Media, the parent company of the Washington Blade, had been known for a while -- so much so that the 20 staffers of the weekly newspaper put in a bid to buy the publication last summer. No action was taken. And so, on Monday morning, after 40 years of chronicling the gay and lesbian community in the nation's capital and elsewhere, the Blade and several other gay publications ceased operation. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:30:17 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed cuts maturity on discount window loans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday said it was reducing the maximum maturity of loans from its discount window to 28 days from 90 days in light of the improvement in financial market conditions. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ This had better be a bug (I assume it is though other TC staffers aren't so sure). If not, this is perhaps the worst UI change I've ever seen. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Giving hypocrisy a bad name]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ DURING THE BUSH administration, Republicans decried Democratic attempts to filibuster judicial nominees. Some went so far as to label such filibuster attempts unconstitutional and threatened to exercise the "nuclear option" to ban the procedural tool in nomination matters. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ PRESIDENT OBAMA'S central message to the Chinese government and people during his first visit there as president has been a remarkably positive one. Acknowledging and occasionally marveling at the country's rapid ascent toward superpower status, Mr. Obama has been saying that not only does the United States "not seek to contain China's rise," but "we welcome China as a strong and prosperous and successful member of the community of nations."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171457650" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171457650" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three young lives lost]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ANINE-YEAR-OLD BOY who loves math and soccer dies when a bullet is fired through the front door of his home. A 21-year-old man is fatally shot in broad daylight as he boards a bus on a busy street. A 17-year-old girl dies when shots are exchanged on a neighborhood playground and she is caught in the crossfire. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed eyes dollar drop, but hews to low-rate pledge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:54:09 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a rare comment on the U.S. dollar's value, on Monday acknowledged the currency's slump was causing some prices to rise, but said other factors restraining inflation were winning the day. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a rare comment on the U.S. dollar's value, on Monday acknowledged the currency's slump was causing some prices to rise, but said other factors restraining inflation were winning the day. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy is meant to encourage investors to move into riskier assets in order to promote economic recovery, and there are no signs currently the policy is resulting in the build-up of a U.S. asset bubble, the central bank's number-two official said on Monday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171504827" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171504827" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ TYLER, Texas (Reuters) - The U.S. government's growing indebtedness could put upward pressure on borrowing costs, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Monday. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:43:04 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve official said on Monday that the U.S. economy still faced "significant weaknesses" and urged policymakers to allow large financial institutions to fail if needed. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve stepped up its consumer protection efforts for the second time in less than a week on Monday, proposing to limit the ability of gift card issuers to impose excessive fees. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve official said on Monday that the U.S. economy still faced "significant weaknesses" and urged policymakers to allow large financial institutions to fail if needed.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171512793" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171512793" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE COST of the housing bailout continues to rise. The government-run mortgage giant Fannie Mae requested another $15 billion from the Treasury this month, to help cover a loss of $19.8 billion in the third quarter. That brings the total tab for rescuing Fannie to $60 billion so far. Fannie's twin, Freddie Mac, has received $51 billion. And now comes news that the capital reserves of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) have fallen to $3.6 billion, which is just one-half of 1 percent of the $685 billion in loans insured by the agency and well below the statutory minimum of 2 percent. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ CAPITOL HILL will soon face a choice on how to fund the Legal Services Corp. (LSC), the federally created nonprofit organization that provides legal representation in civil matters to poor people. Rather than coldly calculate the money it will allocate to the group, lawmakers should stop to consider the constituents who rely on these services: the newly unemployed, those facing loss of their homes, those in need of guidance to secure food stamps. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE D.C. government has never been particularly generous when it comes to making space for public charter schools. It grudgingly accepts applications from charters hoping to acquire vacated school buildings but, more often than not, opts to sell the properties to private developers or, worse, lets the buildings rot. So it's important to celebrate when the city gets it right -- as in the recent renovation of an old elementary school into an incubator for fledgling charters. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ The lights are still off in Alex Brown's fourth-grade classroom at Friendship Public Charter School's Southeast Elementary Academy just before 8 a.m. as he tends to an integral part of his early morning routine: placing small purple-and-yellow boxes called "breakfast breaks" in front of each seat.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171521047" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171521047" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Answer Sheet: No fit way to treatyoung athletes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ YOU MIGHT not realize, given the fury between Catholic Charities and the D.C. Council, that the Catholic Church is not trying to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage in the District. Rather, the battle is over the impact that the legislation could have on the vital services it provides. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ IN ORDER to eliminate the Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, the United States launched at least 15 missile strikes in Pakistan this year and killed, besides Mr. Mehsud, somewhere between 200 and 300 people, according to a study by the New America Foundation. At least a quarter of those who died were civilians. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ HAVING PASSED a health reform bill that is, at least theoretically, paid for, the House of Representatives is poised this week to blow a quarter-trillion-dollar hole in the federal budget involving, you guessed it, health care. This is the so-called doc fix, to prevent scheduled cuts in Medicare reimbursements to physicians from taking effect.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171528519" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171528519" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ While Android 2.0 has been floating around on Motorola DROIDs for over a week now, one important chunk of it has been under lock-and-key: the source. Even amongst manufacturing partners, we're told, Google hasn't been completely open; outside of Motorola (and more recently, HTC), most of the other handset manufacturers have been left out in the cold with nothing to keep them warm but Android v1.6. Until tonight, that is. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONE FACT has largely been glossed over in the debate triggered by the Justice Department's announcement that it will prosecute some terrorism suspects in federal court: After more than six years in custody, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will finally be brought to justice in a forum that is unquestionably legitimate in the eyes of most of the world. The move represents an important step for the victims, their families and the country. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev certainly talks a good game. Before taking office last year, he correctly diagnosed the country's biggest problem as "legal nihilism." The fact that lawlessness has worsened since then doesn't make Mr. Medvedev seem dishonest -- just powerless. On Thursday he delivered a 140-minute "state of the nation" speech that spelled out much of what has gone wrong during the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin. History suggests that this, too, won't presage much change. But the spectacle of Russia's president speaking the truth about his country was in itself a startling sight in the Putin era. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ MARYLAND LAW requires counties to maintain at least the same level of school funding from one year to the next to receive state aid. The aim -- to ensure that education is not shortchanged -- is admirable. So it's more than a little perverse that this law could actually result in millions of dollars being taken away from Montgomery and Prince George's schools.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171536094" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171536094" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed's Evans: Policy to remain accommodative into 2010]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ PARIS (Reuters) - Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Friday that U.S. monetary policy was likely to remain accommodative well into next year, but that the tools for shifting gear were being explored. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Group home settlement leaves serious questions unanswered]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THERE ARE many questions surrounding the D.C. group homes owned by Individual Development Inc. (IDI), a nonprofit whose officers number among the city's most politically connected. Such as: How did the group take in millions of government dollars, hand out handsome salaries and deliver substandard care? And: Why did it take two years and the deaths of three people before the District took any action? Most of all: Is the city right to give the group yet another chance to keep its promises about improving care? ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ PRESIDENT OBAMA has a busy week ahead in Asia. His meetings in Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing and Seoul will touch on repression in Burma, U.S. military bases in Japan and the pursuit of nuclear weapons in North Korea. But as the leader of a nation struggling with 10.2 percent unemployment, Mr. Obama must also focus on the U.S. economic relationship with the world's most dynamic region. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ WITHOUT spending a penny, Education Secretary Arne Duncan prodded states to take important, if small, steps toward school reform. Hoping to win funds from his forthcoming Race to the Top competition, states dismantled barriers to the use of student achievement data in assessing teachers, lifted caps on charter schools and raised standards for getting a teaching license. Given this achievement even before firing the starting gun in his race, Mr. Duncan is entitled to the benefit of the doubt when he says that only states committed to real innovation will be awarded federal dollars.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171544391" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171544391" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. monetary authorities did not intervene in the foreign exchange markets in the third quarter as the dollar fell broadly against major and emerging market currencies, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's balance sheet shrank in the latest week, Fed data showed on Thursday. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreign central banks' holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell and agency debt holdings at the Federal Reserve rose in the latest week, data from the U.S. central bank showed on Thursday. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Thursday banned overdraft fees on automated-teller-machine and debit-card transactions unless consumers have actively selected an overdraft protection service.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171553002" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171553002" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy has improved, but a number of risks to growth remain and there is no near-term inflation threat, a top Fed official said on Thursday. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ TWO MONTHS ago, Metro announced that it faced a deficit of $144 million for the fiscal year starting next July -- about 10 percent of its projected operating budget of $1.46 billion. Translation: Expect fare increases and service cuts in 2010. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unheeded red flags regarding Maj. Nidal M. Hasan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ HINTS OF POTENTIAL trouble from Maj. Nidal M. Hasan were there for all to see. There was his troubling presentation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Islam and the U.S. military, and questions among colleagues about the psychiatrist's competence and even his sanity. And there was the e-mail correspondence with a known radical Muslim cleric that caught the attention of the FBI. In isolation, they may have appeared less than actionable. Unfortunately, the massacre at Fort Hood last week that killed 13 and wounded 38 others was the tragedy that linked the puzzle pieces. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ HUGO CHÃVEZ recently found himself trying to explain, in a live television broadcast, why Venezuelans should limit themselves to three-minute showers. A national water shortage, the latest product of Mr. ChÃ¡vez's "21st-century socialism," has led to mandatory rationing. There's also a power shortage, which is causing daily blackouts in large parts of the country. Though the country is deep in recession, inflation still runs at nearly 30 percent. Then there is the murder rate, which is on its way to tripling since Mr. ChÃ¡vez took office; Venezuela and its capital of Caracas now have the highest per-capita murder rates in the world, according to the State Department.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171603734" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171603734" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Metaio Launches junaio, Mixes Augmented Reality With Social Networking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ [Germany] Munich-based metaio, a developer of visual interaction software products, is today launching a consumer-oriented iPhone application (iTunes link) and complementary website that combines the fun and usefulness of augmented reality with social networking. The application, dubbed junaio, is billed by the company as the 'world's first augmented reality platform' but bears some resemblance to what other European startups like Layar and Wikitude have been putting out there lately. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ SENATE BANKING Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) insists the ambitious draft financial regulation bill that he unveiled Tuesday is not about Fed-bashing. Yes, it would transfer the Fed's consumer protection functions to a new agency. And true, whereas House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) would put the Fed in charge of "systemically important" financial firms, Mr. Dodd would create a board on which the Fed is merely represented. But the goal, Mr. Dodd says, is to enhance Fed independence by allowing it "to get back to its core enterprise." ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ IN 1944, AS CONGRESS contemplated legislation to provide millions of returning World War II veterans with the opportunity for free college educations or vocational training, the University of Chicago's president, Robert Maynard Hutchins, worried that it would bring pressure on institutions of higher learning to accept huge numbers of unqualified students. "Colleges and universities will find themselves converted into educational hobo jungles," he warned. Fortunately, Congress ignored that distinguished educator (as well as some others with similar concerns) and passed the GI Bill. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What does Metro have to hide on its safety standards?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONCE AGAIN, Metro is circling the rail wagons in response to revelations of its seemingly cavalier disregard of safety standards and its habit of ducking and dodging what should be routine oversight. And once again, the transit agency is suggesting by its actions that it has something to hide.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171621875" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171621875" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. should not coddle big banks: Fed's Fisher]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:27:49 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ AUSTIN (Reuters) - The United States should not coddle large financial institutions considered "too big to fail", Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed's Lockhart: Need to ensure U.S. recovery is durable]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. economy has entered a recovery and policymakers should now focus on ensuring it is a durable one, a top Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fed's Yellen sees risks to U.S. recovery]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:11:35 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. economic recovery still faces many hurdles, including a persistently weak labor market and strained household budgets, Janet Yellen, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confirmed: Adobe To Cut 9 Percent Of Workforce]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:40:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ We've confirmed with Adobe that the company is cutting 9 percent of its workforce, or 680 employees. Adobe filed an 8-K with the SEC today reporting the layoffs. Earlier today we heard multiple reports that layoffs were taking place at Adobe. There are also Tweets about the layoffs on Twitter. Last December, Adobe laid off 600 workers (or 8 percent of its staff) due to the recession.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171629768" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171629768" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The right choice in the case of a Guatemalan woman fleeing domestic violence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ RODI ALVARADO PEÃA may have been spared the fate of some 4,000 women in Guatemala who have lost their lives over the past decade because of domestic violence. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Less than 'courage' in New Haven]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ EDUCATION Secretary Arne Duncan is a big advocate of the need for educators to set high expectations. So when he singled out the recently ratified teacher contract in New Haven, Conn., as a model for the nation, we assumed it contained bold reforms. In fact, there's little that's remarkable about the contract. We hope that's not a sign Mr. Duncan is getting timid in bringing about the real changes needed in teacher labor agreements. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress threatens life-saving needle-exchange programs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ PROGRAMS THAT allow drug addicts to swap their dirty needles for sterile syringes are effective in reducing the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A 2008 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that an 80 percent reduction in the incidence of HIV in intravenous drug users over the past 20 years can be attributed in part to such programs funded by private organizations and localities. But Congress appears intent on gumming up the works. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy Any Company In Under 5 Seconds, Courtesy Of LinkedIn]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:54 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A not so well thought-out feature Â¿ or defect Â¿ allows any LinkedIn user to indicate the company they work for has acquired, merged with or become a division of another company without any third-party verification whatsoever. Worse, when a user falsely claims company A has e.g. purchased company B, this will actually show up on company B's public profile as such. Needless to say, this could cause quite some confusion.For examples, head on over to the LinkedIn profiles of Yahoo! and Google, which are both apparently owned by a Pakistani web hosting firm with about 10 employees. Or take a look at the public LinkedIn profile of Internet commerce giant eBay, which is seemingly a subsidiary to collector community and marketplace operator Colnect, whose founder and sole employee Amir Wald tipped us about the 'feature'.The only thing you need to make false pretenses about the relationship of a company with another, is indicate you work there as well as obtain full access to the profile settings Â¿ I couldn't make Google the parent company of say, Skype, even if I pretended to work there because I don't have a valid e-mail address and/or the necessary rights. But you can definitely make any company you have editing rights to the owner or subsidiary of any other company without as much as a hitch.All you need to do is go to the part of the LinkedIn website where you can edit a company's profile and click on the 'Related Companies' menu item. There, you can indicate your employer Â¿ true or not Â¿ is a Division, Subsidiary, Parent, Acquisition or Merger of any company that has a profile on the popular business social network. Always dreamed of owning Apple or Microsoft? Here's your chance to pretend you do, and it'll take you only about 5 seconds.We can't be sure how long this has been possible already, but we've contacted the company about it, so we expect to see a quick fix to this anomaly.In the meantime, please behave yourselves. Okay? Okay.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171638293" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171638293" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Irish Startups Get A ?26 Million Seed Fund]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Good news for Irish startups. The Irish government in partnership with Bank of Ireland and Limerick University have announced a new ?26m fund for early stage companies. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out. Â¿ Gizmo5's SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype's proprietary P2P back end. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Health-care reform, GOP-style]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ COMPARING THE House Republican and Democratic health-care bills is like comparing a mouse to an elephant. The two measures are different in ambition and therefore in size: The newly released GOP bill is deliberately modest and has an accordingly modest impact. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Locked away forever]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ JOE HARRIS Sullivan was 13 when he was accused of raping a 72-year-old Florida woman. Later convicted, Mr. Sullivan was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171647726" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171647726" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A future for Fort Totten]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ "THIS IS TOO grand for this area. This is not Wisconsin Avenue or Bethesda." That criticism from an opponent of a big development planned for the Fort Totten neighborhood at the edge of Northeast Washington indicates exactly why officials should give a green light to the project. The area around this strategic Metro station has too long gone underutilized, and the proposed mix of residential and retail development would help transform a neighborhood stuck in the 1950s. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Italy hammer United States to win Fed Cup]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy surged to their second Fed Cup title by destroying the United States 4-0 in the final on Sunday. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ AMID POMP and ceremony, receptions and balls, a church service and a parade, Robert F. McDonnell's inauguration as Virginia's 71st chief executive will take place next Jan. 16 in Richmond, whereupon he will become . . . a lame duck. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Copenhagen talks could yield small steps on climate change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ FOR TWO YEARS, the Danish capital of Copenhagen has been a beacon for environmentalists seeking a breakthrough international treaty on climate change. But with the long-awaited Copenhagen conference now just weeks away, it has become clear that the talks will not produce a grand, new accord mandating global reductions in carbon emissions. The United Nations' envoy conceded as much last week in Barcelona, the site of the last formal talks before Copenhagen.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171655659" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171655659" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ AT LAST, THERE'S some cheerful news out of Detroit. General Motors, feeling confident after an improvement in sales during October, announced that it had enough financial strength to hang on to Opel, its European subsidiary, rather than sell it to a Russian-Canadian consortium. Chrysler rolled out a new turnaround plan. And, most promising of all, Ford -- the only American carmaker to avoid a federally funded bankruptcy reorganization -- announced a billion-dollar third-quarter profit, boosted by a substantial increase in its market share. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What would improve the House health-care bill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ MUCH OF the criticism of the health-care measure before the House of Representatives is overwrought. Another part is simply wrong. Unfortunately, that does not mean that this is a good bill. As we have said, it does not do enough to control costs, and it is not funded in a sustainable way. Expanding coverage for the uninsured is imperative, but so, too, is getting the country on a credible fiscal path. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Editorial: The Fort Hood tragedy leaves many questions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ President Obama was right to warn on Friday, in the aftermath of the horrific Fort Hood, Tex., slayings, "against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts." It will be too easy for some to make that mistake, given the Arab heritage of alleged gunman Nidal Malik Hasan, his reported daily attendance at a Silver Spring mosque during his years in Washington and the anti-Muslim harassment that a relative said he endured in the Army. In fact, the terrible crime of which Maj. Hasan is accused was not the expression of any faith, nor the work of a terrorist organization, but rather, it appears, the act of an evil or deranged individual. It says nothing about American Muslims -- an estimated 3,000 of whom serve honorably in the armed forces. Maj. Hasan's own family issued a statement calling the attack "despicable and deplorable." "Our family loves America," the statement said. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THERE WAS a brief round of finger-pointing last month after Rep. James L. Oberstar (Minn.), the Democratic chairman of the House committee that oversees transportation and infrastructure, criticized Virginia for being last among the states in spending federal stimulus dollars on highway projects. In the heat of the state's gubernatorial campaign, Virginia Republicans seized on Mr. Oberstar's pronouncement as evidence that the state's transportation department (under Democratic administration these past eight years) needs reform. In response, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine wrote a letter defending the state's approach and noting that, by another measure, Virginia was closer to the national average when it came to directing stimulus funds to infrastructure projects.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171703011" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171703011" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Extending the homebuyer tax credit is a mistake]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ OFFICIAL unemployment is hovering perilously close to 10 percent, and about a third of the jobless have been out of work for at least six months. Therefore Congress was right on Thursday to extend unemployment benefits, for reasons of social justice and economic stimulus. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How much more time for Iranian intransigence?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IT'S BEEN five weeks since the Obama administration announced that Iran had agreed to ship most of its enriched uranium out of the country in exchange for fuel rods for a research reactor -- a deal that promised to delay Tehran's nuclear program by a year or so. But there have been no shipments; instead, Iran rejected the technical terms proposed by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It is trying to change the deal in a way that would remove the slight benefit it offered to the West. And it is continuing its refusal even to discuss the central demand of the U.N. Security Council, which is that it suspend uranium enrichment. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ MAYOR ADRIAN M. FENTY and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray are playing political chicken with the University of the District of Columbia. That is a real shame, because for the first time in its troubled history, UDC is showing hopeful signs of progress. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has participated in peace negotiations with five Israeli governments that refused to halt Jewish settlement construction. Yet Mr. Abbas has rejected an appeal from the Obama administration to start talks with the center-right coalition of Binyamin Netanyahu, putting one of the administration's primary foreign policy goals on indefinite hold. The reason: "America cannot get Israel to implement a settlement freeze," a statement said.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171709794" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171709794" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The center holds in Tuesday's elections]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THOUGH we endorsed candidates in local races this year, we didn't have a dog in the fight for the Upstate New York congressional seat that went to Democratic candidate Bill Owens on Tuesday. So we neither laud nor lament Mr. Owens's victory over Conservative Party standard-bearer Doug Hoffman. However, we do have an interest in the overall tone and content of this country's political debate, and in a strong, credible two-party system. In that sense, the New York result is good news. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ AFTER PROPOSING a federal media shield law that did little to protect the relationship between journalists and their sources, the White House has agreed with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a revised -- and much improved -- version of the Free Flow of Information Act. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ HAMID KARZAI said a lot of the right words on Tuesday after his mandate for another term as Afghanistan's president was confirmed. He said he would form an inclusive administration, that he would welcome members of the Taliban who are ready to work with the government, and that he would "use all our forces, by any means, to remove this stain" of corruption. As President Obama pointedly noted in recognizing Mr. Karzai's reelection a day earlier, "the proof is not going to be in words. It's going to be in deeds." True enough -- but it's also the case that the direction of Mr. Karzai's deeds is going to depend to a large degree on whether he believes he can depend on the United States, its forces and especially its president to back him up. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Lessons from Robert F. McDonnell's victory in Virginia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ROBERT F. MCDONNELL'S crushing victory in Virginia's gubernatorial election Tuesday testified to his skills as a politician and to his disciplined, focused and generally positive, issues-based campaign. Mr. McDonnell, the Republican former state attorney general, rose above the toxic partisanship that suffuses electoral politics to conduct himself with civility, dignity and an even temper. Those qualities will be welcome, and politically useful, as he takes office in January as Virginia's 71st governor, and the first Republican to hold the job since 2002.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171721078" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171721078" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE SENATE Environment and Public Works Committee began its markup of a massive climate change bill on Tuesday -- without its Republican members. The Republicans have some reasonable concerns about the legislation. But their boycott isn't helpful. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Our endorsements in Virginia: For statewide, legislative and other races]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ VIRGINIA VOTERS go to the polls today to elect a governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and members of the House of Delegates. The following is a list of candidates who have been endorsed by The Washington Post, with links to those endorsements. All Post opinions about the Virginia race, including op-eds from both gubernatorial candidates, from Post columnists and from readers can be found here.  ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE MORE you learn about how Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's administration bypassed the D.C. Council to award tens of millions of dollars in contracts, the more troubling it becomes. It's critical that these deals be submitted to the council for thorough review and, if warranted, revocation. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ CONSUMER PRICES fell 2.1 percent between July 2008 and July 2009, but college tuition kept going up. Students entering public four-year institutions this fall confront published tuition rates more than 6 percent higher than they were a year ago. Private colleges and universities ticked up 4.4 percent. To be sure, these figures apply to the "sticker price" of college only: grants and loans (many of them subsidized) cover much of the tab. But the contrast between the country's belt-tightening and higher ed's price hikes is striking nonetheless.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171730262" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171730262" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Trader Gets A Web-Based Companion In Uganda]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last June, Google introduced a number of SMS-based services specifically designed to suit the mobile needs of Africans, kicking off in the Republic of Uganda. Today, the search giant is complementing one of the cellphone services it had launched in the country, an SMS-based marketplace dubbed Google Trader, with a web-based version of its own. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONE OF THE rhetorical questions frequently tossed out in the debate over Afghanistan concerns the brewing trouble in Somalia and Yemen, both of which are known to host al-Qaeda cadres and training camps. If it's necessary to pacify Afghanistan to protect U.S. security, goes the taunt, must we also intervene in Somalia and Yemen? ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ "THERE IS NO Freestanding Constitutional 'Right Not To Be Framed.' " So states a brief filed by Iowa prosecutors hoping to persuade the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit against them for allegedly fabricating evidence that led to the 25-year incarceration of two innocent men. It's a breathtaking proposition that the justices should roundly reject when they hear the case Wednesday. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ PERHAPS NOW that its largest, and one of its best, school systems has embraced an effort to make it harder for students to drop out, Maryland will consider changing the compulsory age of school attendance. Such a change wouldn't be a magic solution to the dropout problem but it could help.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171738851" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171738851" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ IN THE ideal world of economics, firms that take excessive risks go bankrupt, their competitors pick up the pieces and the economy marches on. Some call it "creative destruction." In the real world, certain financial institutions are so big and so interconnected that their collapse -- no matter how richly deserved -- threatens plain old destructive destruction. Government steps in, with taxpayer money, to prevent that. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ ANITA ALVAREZ, the state's attorney in Cook County, Ill., has slapped student journalists at the Medill Innocence Project with subpoenas to get them to hand over additional information from their investigation of the incarceration of an Illinois man for the past 31 years. But she's not just asking for notes from off-the-record or unpublished interviews. She also want the class syllabus; grades and e-mail communications of the students; and reimbursement records for their travel expenses. These subpoenas -- and the stunning overreach they represent -- should be quashed. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting serious about the Chesapeake Bay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ PRESIDENT OBAMA recently issued an executive order aimed at cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. Now comes Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) with a bill that offers carrots and sticks to push states to follow through on their plans to restore the 64,000-mile watershed. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ms. Rhee's show trial]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ D.C. SCHOOLS Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee stands accused, it seems, of trying to manage her budget in a way that will do the least harm to students. Not a crime, you might think -- unless, like Ms. Rhee's accusers on the D.C. Council, you are more interested in scoring political points than in hearing what she is doing for children.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171746533" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171746533" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Honduras breakthrough is win for democracy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE STAKES in Honduras's political crisis have always been bigger than the country's tiny size would suggest -- and so it follows that the breakthrough engineered this week by the Obama administration is more than a minor diplomatic triumph. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virginia's secret election]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ MORE THAN a million Northern Virginians are eligible to vote in Tuesday's statewide races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, and most have made up their minds. That's the easy part of voting. Unfortunately, the State Board of Elections has made it needlessly complicated to determine ahead of Election Day which candidates will appear a little further down the ballot -- especially in races for the House of Delegates. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Director of Mobile Jed Stremel Resigns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jed Stremel, Facebook's Director of Mobile who has been with the company for four years, has resigned, according to a post on his Facebook profile. Stremel was charged with leading the company's mobile strategy, and was previously involved in Business Development at Facebook. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mr. Cuccinelli's bigotry]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ KENNETH CUCCINELLI, the Republican candidate for Virginia state attorney general, believes it's "appropriate" to formulate public policy on the premise that homosexuals engage in behavior that is "intrinsically wrong" and offensive to "natural law." His comments -- which retrofit the old rhetoric of racism, bias and intolerance in a new context -- were made in an interview with the Virginian-Pilot, a newspaper in Norfolk.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171754434" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171754434" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[House health plan has worthy aim, poor funding]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE FUNDAMENTAL aims of the health-care bill unveiled Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- covering the uninsured and reforming insurance markets to end abusive practices -- are laudable. But the legislation, while creating an expensive new entitlement program (subsidies to purchase health insurance) and dramatically expanding an existing one (Medicaid), does not do enough to address rising health-care costs and is not financed in a sensible, sustainable way. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Post's endorsements in local Va. races]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ VIRGINIA'S STATEWIDE races for governor and attorney general, along with competitive delegate contests, have overshadowed county elections in Arlington and Fairfax. Voters should not overlook these local races when they go to the polls next week. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Layoffs Confirmed At 23andMe]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:42:47 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Personal genomics startup 23andMe has just gone through a round of layoffs, we've confirmed. The company declined to comment on how many people were laid off, but offered this statement: ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress needs to weigh crack's risks in reforming drug sentencing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IN THE 1980s, entire communities were devastated by the addiction and violence that accompanied crack, a smokable form of cocaine. Congress reacted by passing extraordinarily tough laws, including one that mandated a minimum prison sentence of five years for those in possession of as little as five grams of crack. Those arrested with 50 grams were automatically slapped with a 10-year sentence.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171802829" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171802829" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Denying D.C. representation is a civil rights issue]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "DO THE DEMOCRATS have the political will to get this done?" That's the question recently posed by an advocate for voting rights for the District. If action is the measure, the answer -- sadly -- is no. Despite Democratic control of the White House and Congress, the 600,000-odd residents of the nation's capital are no closer to getting their rights as American citizens. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia's political murders have to stop]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ MURDERS OF human rights activists in Russia have been happening with such frequency that some will be tempted to shrug at the brutal slaying on Sunday of Maksharip Aushev, who campaigned against abuses by the security forces in the Caucasian republic of Ingushetia. Mr. Maksharip was driving on a major highway, in broad daylight, when a car pulled up beside him and delivered a fusillade of bullets. His funeral came two months after that of Zarema Sadulayeva, the head of a children's charity in neighboring Chechnya, and her husband, who were shot and stuffed in a car trunk. Those murders, in turn, followed the July 15 killing of Natalya Estemirova, Chechnya's most prominent human rights activist. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mayor Fenty's end run on parks and rec contracts merits D.C. Council scrutiny]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ MAYOR ADRIAN M. Fenty boasts that his administration represents a break from the old ways of doing business in the District, when whom you knew mattered more than what you could do for the city. What, then, to make of reports that the administration bypassed the D.C. Council to award tens of millions of dollars in contracts and that some of the firms may have ties to Mr. Fenty? Council members are right to ask what is going on. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The public Fisker]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ SEVEN MONTHS AGO, President Obama's auto industry task force rained skepticism on the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' plug-in electric hybrid car. Projected to sell for roughly $35,000 -- after a $7,500 federal tax rebate -- the four-seat car "is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable," the task force noted. Nevertheless, the administration rescued GM by buying a 60 percent equity stake -- and Volt production starts a year from now.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171813549" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171813549" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A civil rights advance]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ PRESIDENT OBAMA is scheduled to sign Wednesday what is being described as the nation's first significant pro-gay rights legislation. Attached to the defense authorization act, the measure would add sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability to the list of protected classes under the 1969 federal hate-crimes law. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court lets stand a bad Va. decision on drunk driving]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ IN THE EARLY morning hours of Dec. 31, 2005, Richmond police received an anonymous call describing "an intoxicated driver . . . named Joseph Harris" driving a green Nissan Altima south on Meadowbridge Road. The caller gave a partial license plate number and said the driver was wearing a striped shirt. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ SUPPOSE THAT North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il decided last January to try luring the Obama administration into the same lucrative and fraudulent transaction his regime pulled off with the two previous U.S. presidents. In that case, Mr. Kim may feel he's getting close to executing another sting. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Chamber vs. honesty]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE U.S. CHAMBER of Commerce has been airing expensive TV ads in Northern Virginia lately involving the race for governor. The ad's first words are "Traffic's worse." Its last words are "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce paid for this ad." Most of the intervening words -- about 70, by our count -- are blatant distortions.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171823241" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171823241" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Price Revealed For BBN Deal: $350 Million]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In September, defense contractor Raytheon announced an agreement to purchase R&amp;D innovator BBN Technologies, but didn't say for how much. Today, the deal closed and the price came out. It is $350 million. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE 18-HOUR hearing into the recent teacher layoffs was D.C. politics at its angriest. Speakers called for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) to be impeached, impugned the integrity of Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and denigrated, in sometimes ugly racial terms, any who dared disagree. There's plenty of blame to go around for the nasty tone of the debate -- union leaders with self-interest in fomenting unrest, a mayor obtuse to his obligation to work cooperatively, D.C. Council members intent on undermining the executive -- but, in the end, none of that really matters. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ TAKE THAT, Wall Street: In a single day, the nation's financiers absorbed pay hits from both the Treasury Department (in the person of compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg) and the Federal Reserve. Mr. Feinberg capped the salaries of top executives of seven large bailed-out firms at $500,000, and pushed more of their stock compensation into the future. The Fed announced that it would conduct more aggressive oversight of compensation plans at bank holding companies, to make sure they do not encourage "undue" risk-taking, as Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke put it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE JUSTICE Department announced last week that it would not prosecute patients who legally obtain marijuana from licensed dispensaries in the 13 states that allow medicinal use. The decision is both sensible and potentially problematic.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171834606" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171834606" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LawCrunch: Some (More) Ideas On Why Nokia Sued Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:15:59 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Disclaimer: Jeremy Kessel has a J.D., but is still waiting for his (July 2009) California Bar Exam results. Thus, he is not (yet) a licensed attorney. Barry L. Cohen, who also shares some insights below, is a licensed attorney. Regardless, this post is not meant as legal advice or analysis and should not be construed as such.As many of you are aware, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple last week in the Federal District Court in Delaware. Nokia's complaint alleges that Apple has infringed on 10 of Nokia's patents for various, "fundamental" GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies. In particular, the patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption. Nokia believes that all 10 patents have been infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced back in 2007. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ ECONOMIST ALAN Blinder once proposed Murphy's Law of Economic Policy, which goes in part: "Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed." The health-care debate is threatening to show Blinder's law in action. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE POST began publishing endorsements for this year's contested races for the Virginia House of Delegates in Friday's paper. This is the conclusion of the three-part series; our picks appear below in bold type. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why fund wars with debt, but not health care?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A READER recently challenged us to explain what he sees as a contradiction in our editorial positions. We support the goal of universal health care, but argue that President Obama must keep his pledge not to pay for it with borrowed money. We have also backed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's request for additional troops and other resources for Afghanistan -- but without specifying how the reinforcements should be funded. Why is it okay to finance wars with debt, asks our reader, but not to pay for health care that way?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171844302" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171844302" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ THE POST began publishing endorsements for this year's contested races for the Virginia House of Delegates in Friday's paper. This is a continuation; our picks appear below in bold type. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Couple iPhone Apps Named "Twitter" Are Tricking Users]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ So, I don't know if you've heard, but these iPhone app things are a pretty big deal. With the iPhone continuing to sell in record numbers, more and more new users are exploring the App Store everyday to find the apps they want. One of the most popular type of apps are Twitter apps. And the obvious way to find those is to type "Twitter" into the iTunes search box. This query brings up a couple apps called "Twitter." The only problem? They are in no way official Twitter apps, as the name might imply. And one of them isn't even actually called that. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ad-Supported World: Ready or Not, Here It Comes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago, Microsoft made a minor splash by announcing they'd offer an ad-supported version of Microsoft Office. Most of the functionality would be there, but there'd be an ad down there in the corner. A tempest briefly raged in this teapot, but died down once people realized they'd been using ad-supported software for years and never even thought to complain. After all, every time you search for something Â¿ look, ads! Have a free email account? Ads here and there (targeted based on the content of your email, which surprisingly few people find disturbing), and sometimes even included in your outgoing messages. Ad-supported services and software are embedded in our technological landscape whether you realize it or not, and it's beyond question that they've cultivated improvement.So when word came down that Apple had filed a patent for what appears to be an ad-supported version of OS X, my shock abated almost instantly. In fact, I only felt more justified in backing ad-supported products. There will be objections, some legitimate, some hysterical, but I think it will become increasingly clear over the next few years that this sort of thing is not only unavoidable, but ultimately desirable. As with other major emerging concepts like globalization, peer to peer connectivity, net neutrality, and device convergence, the evolution of advertising will be denied, debated, and championed in a million different ways. And that's okay. Like those other processes (all of them still ongoing), you don't have to accept them right away, but it helps if you realize that resistance is futile. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Swine flu vaccination problems show poor performance on planning]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AS VACCINATION efforts go, the one underway for the H1N1 virus (a.k.a swine flu) has not gone smoothly. Lower-than-expected vaccine yields have reduced the number of doses available, and this has led to the cancellation or scaling back of vaccination clinics across the country, including in Maryland and Virginia. After eight years of talk about preparing for either biological attacks or life-threatening pandemic influenza, the performance is worse than disappointing.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171852379" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171852379" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ AS RECENTLY as a decade ago, the Republican Party's grip on Virginia's House of Delegates looked secure. But as the state has turned purple and as Republican hard-liners have repeatedly blocked efforts by Democrats and their own party's dwindling corps of moderates to address the state's critical transportation problems, voters have turned increasingly against the GOP. Having lost control of the state Senate, the Republicans' fiat in the House is now shaky, too. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TweetMixx Launches Branded Twitter Channels]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ TweetMixx, the newly launched service from social voting site Mixx that allows you to find relevant links on Twitter, is venturing into new territory today with the launch of TweetMixx Channels. The service basically lets brands, celebs and companies consolidate their Twitter traffic and mentions on one page. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iran's treatment of an American puts detente on ice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THERE WERE hints of progress in the nuclear talks with Iran on Wednesday as Iranian negotiators in Vienna accepted for consideration a plan under which Iran would ship most of its current stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country. But there also was a contrary signal from Tehran about the desire of its extremist regime for detente with the West. That was the reported sentencing of Iranian American academic Kian Tajbakhsh to 15 years in prison on a blatantly bogus charge of espionage. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE FEDERAL Reserve Board has long been one of the rare institutions in our democracy -- like the Supreme Court -- whose internal processes are largely shielded from public view. Though not quite a fourth branch of government, the Fed's independence is no less vital, in its own way, than that of the justices. There wouldn't be much point in having a central bank if its every technical decision about the money supply were subject to short-term political debate.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171902037" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171902037" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Playing fair in the District]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ POLITICAL CRONYISM derailed efforts last year by D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi to improve the city's troubled lottery operation. Not only did the D.C. Council reject a firm that promised to upgrade the lottery and make more money, but it also besmirched the process by which the city awards contracts. Council members now have a second chance to get a better deal for the cash-strapped city and restore integrity in how it does the public's business. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yammer Extended Outage. Update: It's Back!]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Budget deficits can't be viewed in light of World War II experience]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE FINAL White House estimate for the fiscal 2009 budget deficit is in: $1.4 trillion, or 10 percent of gross domestic product. To mark the occasion, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke called for "a sustainable fiscal trajectory, anchored by a clear commitment to substantially reduce federal deficits over time." President Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, promised that very thing: "As part of [next year's] budget policy process, we are considering proposals to put our country back on firm fiscal footing," he said. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House and Congress can still do right by the Uighurs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THERE IS only one way for the White House and Congress to read the Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to take up the case of Chinese Muslims wrongly imprisoned at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Either provide real and meaningful freedom for the Uighurs now or risk that the justices will do it -- and possibly in a manner that could reach well beyond these cases.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171913469" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171913469" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Post endorses Del. Stephen C. Shannon for Virginia attorney general]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE RACE for attorney general in Virginia is a face-off between a pair of youngish lawyers, each from Fairfax County, each elected to the General Assembly this decade, and each now running his first statewide race. The similarities end there. While the Democratic candidate, Del. Stephen C. Shannon, is a mainstream former prosecutor -- strait-laced, sober, earnest almost to a fault -- his Republican opponent, state Sen. Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, is a provocative hard-liner who at times has struggled vainly to attract a single vote for his more far-fetched initiatives. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, Microsoft's Windows Mobile Dev team released a humorous video giving a sneak peek inside the Microsoft Apps Lab. Here, you get a behind-the-scenes look at a few of the apps Microsoft dreamed up for its new Windows Marketplace, but were forced to reject for various reasons ranging from stupidity to lawsuits to physical pain. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rider reversal: House Democrats' D.C. vote strategy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ REPUBLICANS ARE upset that House Democratic leaders may try to get the D.C. voting rights bill passed by attaching it to the fiscal 2010 defense appropriations bill. They argue that it would be wrong to include controversial legislation in an unrelated bill. Do they really think everyone has forgotten that they used the same ploy to sabotage voting rights in the first place? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nuclear swap]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ FOR NOW, at least, nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West have narrowed to an issue that was not even on the agenda a month ago: Iran's possible export of most of its existing stockpile of enriched uranium to Russia and France, which would turn it into fuel for an Iranian research reactor. This is both a bad and a good development. It is bad because it diverts attention from Iran's continuing refusal to comply with U.N. resolutions ordering it to cease uranium enrichment and from its failure to accept Western proposals even for a temporary freeze. But if Iran goes through with the agreement in principle announced by the Obama administration on Oct. 1, the tangible good would be the removal from Iran of most of the known raw material it could use to make a bomb -- and a probable delay of one to two years in the West's estimates of how quickly it could produce one.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171922925" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171922925" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The sad legacy of the District's HIV/AIDS agency]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE MORASS of fraud and dysfunction at the District's HIV/AIDS Administration revealed in "Wasting Away," the two-day exposÃ© by Post staff writer Debbie Cenziper, is sickening. Scarce housing dollars went to assistance programs with little or no oversight or accounting of how they were spent. There was sloppy record-keeping and falsified documentation. Conflicts of interest abounded. What red flags that were raised were ignored. And many in need went without as phone calls went unanswered, and services that were promised were either not forthcoming or poorly delivered. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Web-based productivity suite Zoho has continued to integrate its products with Google in order to make it easier to use Gmail and Zoho apps simultaneously. Last summer, Zoho, a web-based software suite that includes document, project and invoicing management tools, integrated Google and Yahoo sign-ins, allowing users to sign into Zoho using a Google or Yahoo account. And over the summer, Zoho is launched sign-in integration with Google Apps, letting users login to Zoho using their Google Apps credentials. Today, Zoho's project collaboration product, Zoho Projects, will become an extended application to Google Apps. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Doctor pay, and its cost, are part of health reform]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IN THE WORLD according to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), setting Medicare payment levels for doctors has nothing to do with health reform. Really. "Correcting the Medicare doctors' payment discrepancy is a budgetary problem -- health insurance reform tackles a serious regulatory problem," Reid's office said in a statement. "That's why we need to fix the Medicare doctors' payments first, outside of health reform." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jody Wagner for Virginia lieutenant governor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ JODY WAGNER, Virginia's former secretary of finance, is the sort of Democrat that helped cement the Old Dominion's status as among the cleanest, best managed and most business-friendly states in the country. She is easily the better choice as Virginia's next lieutenant governor and would represent a sharp improvement over the incumbent Republican seeking reelection, Bill Bolling.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171932792" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171932792" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaded justice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ON ITS FACE the proposition seems reasonable enough: Anyone who pleads guilty to a federal crime must give up the right to use DNA evidence in the future to challenge that conviction. This Bush-era policy would work just fine in a perfect world, where only those who actually committed crimes pleaded guilty to those offenses. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Math teacher urges explanations over plugging in formulas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The teenagers in Stephanie Nichols's algebra class have nothing on her blank stare. And they can't even come close to her best confused expression: eyebrows furrowed, mouth frowning, a flash of ditziness framed by a blond bob. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Answer Sheet VALERIE STRAUSS]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here are excerpts from The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post's education blog. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Figured Out Where New Zealand Is]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last week we wrote about Google's odd habit of putting the Google New Zealand web site as the top result for a ton of queries like Google Ireland and Google Egypt (and the commenters found many more).<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171946284" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171946284" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mr. Deeds for Governor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A LEGACY of sound policies, coupled with the proximity of the federal government, has partially protected Virginia from the harsh retrenchments that the recession has forced on many states. Yet the commonwealth faces a daunting crisis in the form of a drastic shortfall in transportation funding, measured in the tens of billions of dollars, that threatens future prosperity. If the current campaign for governor has clarified anything, it is that state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee, has the good sense and political courage to maintain the forward-looking policies of the past while addressing the looming challenge of fixing the state's dangerously inadequate roads. The Republican candidate, former attorney general Robert F. McDonnell, offers something different: a blizzard of bogus, unworkable, chimerical proposals, repackaged as new ideas, that crumble on contact with reality. They would do little if anything to build a better transportation system. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House has chance to foster Afghan future]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONE FACTOR in President Obama's decision to rethink the strategy he adopted for Afghanistan was the fraud-riddled fiasco that was Afghanistan's presidential election. The United States and its allies were counting on the August vote to lend new legitimacy to the Afghan government and complement the military strategy of defeating the Taliban by winning over the population. Instead ballot-box stuffing on behalf of the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, threatened to further weaken a regime known for corruption and inefficiency. Within the Obama administration, advocates of abandoning the strategy have been saying it cannot work with such a compromised government. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Judge's Hasty Decision to Close a Blackwater Hearing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ JUDGE Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has been holding closed-door hearings this week in the case of five Blackwater security contractors accused of gunning down unarmed Iraqi civilians. A reporter from The Post learned of the hearings, which appear not to have been listed on the public docket; Judge Urbina declined the newspaper's request to lift the secrecy order. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Secretary Clinton's Inspiring Message to Russian Democracy-Seekers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IT'S BECOME SO commonplace that the world little noticed last Sunday when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin staged another phony, Soviet-style election. As in the old days, the ruling party (now known as "United Russia" instead of "Communist Party of the Soviet Union") won a smashing victory in local jurisdictions across the country, with opposing party politicians reduced to bit parts permitted for decorative effect only. Mr. Medvedev, who frequently impresses Western politicians with his statements in praise of democracy, hailed the elections as "well organized," which we suppose is undeniable. Mr. Putin, who is less sentimental about these things, dismissed protesting politicians as whiners: "Those who don't win are never happy," he sniffed.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171955987" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472171955987" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A flat cost-of-living adjustment is no excuse for a $250 handout to seniors.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AS YOU WATCH the depressing spectacle of President Obama proposing to buy off senior citizens with a $250 handout and thereby boost the national debt by another $13 billion, here's something to keep in mind: If seniors' benefits were to be calculated fairly, they would actually go down next year. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rebuilding New Orleans Requires Smart Planning]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ MANY IN New Orleans were not happy with President Obama's brief visit Thursday. They wanted him to spend more time talking with them about what's been happening since hurricanes Katrina and Rita unleashed misery there four years ago. We're sympathetic to their desire for substantial presidential face time. But neither Mr. Obama nor his administration is a stranger to the devastation of the Gulf Coast or the frustrations with the pace of recovery. What's more relevant than how many times he visits is how much more needs to be done. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Economic Reality Trips Up Va. Republicans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IN VIRGINIA'S statewide and legislative elections this fall, a key Republican talking point is that spending in the commonwealth has outstripped population growth and inflation. In fact, the suggestion that Richmond is on a check-writing binge flies in the face of this reality: Over the past decade, Virginia's spending has actually risen somewhat more slowly than the national average. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who's Scorched Up comScore In September, You Ask?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ NATIONAL TESTS showing that D.C. public school students made significant gains in mathematics are an important reminder of what's at stake in the city's struggle to remake its troubled education system. Student achievement -- not politics nor process, nor even jobs -- is the only issue that truly matters. If the District is to have any hope of doing right by its children, it must sustain the reforms of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee that helped produce these heartening results. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Advice From an Iranian Nobel Laureate About Her Country]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SHIRIN EBADI, a 62-year-old Iranian lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize six years ago, is generally cautious and measured in her speech. She is a human rights lawyer who says that she does not involve herself in politics. She says that it's not her job to favor one party over another, as long as the government respects people's right to express themselves. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress to Move on Military Commissions Law and Trials for Detainees]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONE OF THE first acts of President Obama after being sworn in was to suspend the military commissions at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that were being used to prosecute high-level detainees, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blogged.com Gets A Real-Time Makeover]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:55:40 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Taliban Threat]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ DURING THE past 10 days, Pakistan's conflict with the Taliban movement has escalated toward full-scale war -- and the extreme Islamist movement has mostly held the initiative. On Tuesday, government warplanes bombed targets in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan in what may be the prelude to a major army offensive there. Over the previous eight days, however, the Taliban carried out four major attacks that demonstrated both its growing power and its ambitions. One, against Pakistan's army headquarters, was staged with the help of a terrorist organization from the country's ethnic Punjabi heartland. That alliance underlines the fact that the Taliban no longer aims merely at controlling the ethnic Pashtun areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan but at gaining control over a nuclear-armed state. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Turkey and Armenia Take a Step Toward Rapprochement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SECRETARY OF STATE Hillary Rodham Clinton executed some deft diplomacy last weekend as the leaders of Turkey and Armenia signed a potentially historic deal to establish normal diplomatic relations and reopen their borders. We say "potentially" because there are some big obstacles to implementing the accord, which we'll come back to. But Ms. Clinton helped to ensure that the signing ceremony in Zurich went forward after four hours of last-minute mediation. Not for the first time in her short tenure, she proved capable of overcoming an impasse and teasing out a favorable outcome for the United States. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Job for the District]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THREE DECADES ago, a federal judge concluded that the District had violated the constitutional rights "to be free from harm" of some 1,050 mentally disabled people committed to the Forest Haven facility. The city's notorious asylum -- where residents languished on urine-soaked mattresses, were beaten by staff members and lacked basic medical care -- has long since closed. Many of the residents have died, but the rest are in community-based living arrangements that reflect how the District is trying to transform the care of these vulnerable people. Nonetheless, the litigation persists, with the District remaining under federal court supervision. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leadership on Gay Rights: President Obama isn't the only one falling short.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ FULL EQUALITY for gays and lesbians is the civil rights issue of our time. Men and women who want to preserve and protect the ideals of this nation are being booted from the military because of who they are. Same-sex couples who seek the recognition of their relationships that their heterosexual counterparts take for granted are denied the rights and responsibilities that come from civil marriage. Ending these and other forms of institutional discrimination based on sexual orientation requires leadership. Pity there's not enough of it coming from either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172028407" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172028407" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Patriot High-Wire Act]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE PATRIOT ACT was rushed through Congress weeks after the 2001 terrorist strikes to give law enforcement new tools to prevent another attack. Lawmakers reassessed the law about five years later, reworking some provisions to better protect civil liberties. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court can rectify bad legal advice in case of Padilla v. Kentucky.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ TRUCK DRIVER Jose Padilla was stopped at a weigh station in Kentucky in 2001 when he gave a law enforcement officer permission to examine the contents of his 18-wheeler. Stashed among the registered cargo were some 23 Styrofoam boxes containing 1,000 pounds of marijuana. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pain, Prozac and the Pump]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONLY A HANDFUL of states tax gasoline at the pump as lightly as Virginia does. The state's drivers may applaud this -- until they find themselves sitting in traffic, wondering why the road system is such an underfunded disaster. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Treasury Considers More Aid for Housing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ HOW BADLY DID the U.S. housing market crash? Well, just look at how much federal aid it has taken to stabilize it, at least for now. The Federal Reserve has bought almost $700 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities, with more to come. The Treasury Department is covering the losses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Congress has enacted tax credits to spur home buying, including an $8,000 bonus to first-time buyers that expires Nov. 30 but may well be extended. The Federal Housing Administration has dramatically expanded its mortgage insurance portfolio. The Obama administration offers government-backed refinancing to middle-income homeowners who are up to 25 percent underwater in their current mortgages.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172035126" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172035126" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS have a lot on their minds these days, from shoring up sagging enrollment to keeping soaring costs in check. Add this to the to-do lists of Maryland's college officials: Craft pornography rules. Due date: Oct. 23. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[THE ANSWER SHEET : A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here are excerpts from The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post's new education blog. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Re-Stimulating]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AT 9.8 PERCENT, the unemployment rate is higher than it has been since it hit 10.1 percent in June 1983. Since the recession began 21 months ago, the economy has shed nearly 7 million jobs. Whole industries -- cars, housing, finance -- have been devastated and may never recover fully. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ AFL-CIO PRESIDENT Richard L. Trumka took center stage Thursday at a well-orchestrated rally in downtown Washington to denounce the "cold, hard" tactics of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. Washington Teachers' Union President George Parker wrote a letter that appeared on this page Friday saying that his organization has tried to collaborate with Ms. Rhee. There is the suggestion that Ms. Rhee's recent layoff of 229 teachers could dampen the chance of future cooperation.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172046136" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172046136" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ LISTEN TO the promises of Virginia's two gubernatorial candidates regarding higher education, and it's hard to tell the difference. Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and Republican Robert F. McDonnell both say that they will increase the number of degrees awarded while also making college more affordable. Also common to both: Neither has a clue as to where the state will find the money. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[President Obama wins the Nobel Prize for Peace ÃÂ but that's not his fault.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IT'S AN ODD Nobel Peace Prize that almost makes you embarrassed for the honoree. In blessing President Obama, the Nobel Committee intended to boost what it called his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." A more suitable time for the prize would have been after those efforts had borne some fruit. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Shell Game for Disguising Health Reform Costs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE SENATE Finance Committee's health-reform bill is fully paid for, according to the Congressional Budget Office; in fact, the CBO says, it would save $81 billion in the first 10 years. The House version of health reform, by contrast, would add $239 billion to the deficit over that period. So the Senate bill is more fiscally responsible, right? Not exactly. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress gets a chance to codify sensible NIH rules for stem cell research.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE SWIRL of controversy that greeted President Obama's executive order lifting the ban on federal funding of stem cell research in March didn't make a significant return when the final rules were released over the summer. That's because the National Institutes of Health successfully navigated a minefield of ethical and moral questions. To protect those regulations from politics and changes by another administration, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) soon will introduce the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2009. The legislation would codify Mr. Obama's executive order permitting federal funding of such research within guidelines established by the NIH and would require that they be reviewed periodically.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172054134" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172054134" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Peace! Obama v. The CrunchPad]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Oh-Bah-Mah! ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dairy Industry Milks Congress for Another Bailout]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AT $2.87 a gallon, the average price of milk is down 27 percent from a year ago. That means cheaper groceries for recession-weary consumers and more bang for the taxpayer's buck in food stamps and other federal nutrition programs. What's not to like? Well, dairy farmers hate it: They are facing a $12 billion decline in sales this year, according to the National Milk Producers Federation. Many could shut down; some farmers are slaughtering their cows for beef. Rushing to their rescue, Congress has approved a $350 million dairy bailout -- on top of more than $1 billion in regular price-support and direct-payment programs. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress Refuses to Seriously Address the Guantanamo Issue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ CONGRESS continues its irrational and damaging bluster over the fate of detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[D.C. Council Moves to Permit Same-Sex Marriage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ BY INTRODUCING the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009, D.C. Council member David A. Catania (I-At-Large) has started the District's long-awaited effort to permit same-sex marriage. The bill is short on pages, but its impact on the lives of gays and lesbians, and on the advancement of civil rights generally, is immeasurable.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172102816" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172102816" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[INQ To Build Spotify Branded Phone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Wow, if nothing else, new European music service Spotify, which is yet to launch in the U.S., has captured everyone's attention. TechCrunch Europe reports that Swedish telecommunication service provider Telia will soon release a Spotify-branded mobile phone. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Alternative Afghanistan Plan Looks Like a Loser]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ PRESIDENT OBAMA kicked off his reconsideration of strategy in Afghanistan by questioning on national television whether the United States needed to keep supporting the Afghan government and army. But the alternatives the president appears to be considering do not depart so radically from the plan proposed by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. Mr. Obama told congressional leaders Tuesday that he did not intend to reduce U.S. troop levels or limit U.S. operations to drone attacks on al-Qaeda. Nor, according to his national security adviser, would he give up on building the Afghan government and army. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Legal Clash Over a Cross in the Wilderness]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SINCE 1934, a cross commemorating fallen World War I soldiers has stood sentry over the Joshua trees in what is now the Mojave National Preserve. The structure, which was erected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, went largely unnoticed during its first 65 years, but has for the past decade been the focal point of an often messy dispute over the government's decision to allow the symbol on federal lands. The Supreme Court took up the controversy Wednesday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kudos to Mr. Swain's Whistle-Blowing on D.C. Bribery Scheme]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ "MY MOTHER didn't raise me that way." That's the modest explanation offered by Leon J. Swain Jr. on why he wouldn't be bought off as chair of the D.C. Taxicab Commission. He instead alerted authorities and, at their urging, pretended to go along with a massive bribery scheme. It's hard to imagine how harrowing the next two years were for Mr. Swain, which makes his cooperation all the more exemplary.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172112773" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172112773" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dressed To Kill: Modu 2 To Sport Android Jacket]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Israeli modular phone manufacturer, Modu, looks to be shaking things up with its next modular gadget - Modu 2. In a recent interview with TechRadar, Modu CEO, Dov Moran, has let (some of) the beans spill on Modu's ambitions for its next generation of devices.For anyone who is unfamiliar, Modu?s modular ecosystem includes various ?jackets? which ?create a new look and provide added functionality? to the underlying Modu phone. In the same way that you and I change our clothes based on our plans, Modu?s phone can change jackets for different functions, such as playing MP3s, taking digital photos, or at its simplest, changing its outward appearance with a dressy ?suit? jacket. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani Government Dismayed by U.S. Wavering on Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ONE OF the ideas the Obama administration is considering in response to the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan reportedly is called "Pakistan First." Championed by Vice President Biden, the idea is to focus U.S. efforts on attacking al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan's tribal areas with drones or Special Forces, while backing the government's efforts to pacify and develop the lawless areas where al-Qaeda and the Taliban are based. The battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, meanwhile, would be put on the back burner. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In Virginia, a Plea for Taxes to Fix Traffic]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A COALITION of 17 of the biggest business groups in Northern Virginia, representing thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of employees, has just issued an extraordinary plea. After a dozen "whereases" and four "be it resolveds," the plea amounts to this: If Virginia does not raise taxes for its badly underfunded and rapidly crumbling transportation system, it won't get fixed -- period. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[D.C. Council Members Are Peeved, and the City Pays a Price]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE D.C. COUNCIL was shamed Tuesday into apologizing for the racist and sexist comments that marred the confirmation hearing of Ximena Hartsock for director of parks and recreation. The bigger shame, though, is that the council, acting largely out of political spite, refused to confirm this eminently qualified and capable woman. No doubt Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) suffered a political loss, but the real loser is the city.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172121293" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172121293" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ AT THE heart of the Obama administration's deliberations about Afghanistan is the question of whether U.S. security rests on the defeat of the Afghan Taliban movement. The discussion often gets narrowed to the point of whether al-Qaeda, which is based in Pakistan, would gain a new haven in Afghanistan if the Taliban returned to power, so we'll start there. We won't, however, linger long, because for almost all military and civilian experts on the region the question is a no-brainer. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Plan to Make Government Ownership of Business Less Political]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP of banks, car factories and insurance companies has little or no precedent in U.S. history -- and a poor track record in countries that have tried it. When governments own companies, they succumb to the temptation to manage them according to political rather than economic criteria. Losses mount, and government bleeds the rest of the economy to cover them. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ THERE ARE valid questions to be asked about whether Ximena Hartsock is the best qualified candidate to head the District's department of parks and recreation. Shockingly, though, D.C. Council members at a recent hearing on her confirmation seemed more interested in her ethnicity, gender and immigration status than in her work and educational background. No matter what one's opinion of Ms. Hartsock, D.C. residents should be appalled that their elected officials would subject anyone to such disrespectful treatment. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trapster Speed Trap App Downloads Hit 50,000/Day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A must-have iPhone application for people who drive a lot is Trapster Â¿ the app for avoiding speed traps. Or a better description by Paul Carr before he was fired from The Guardian: "Yes, that's Trapster: the mobile distraction for when driving at high speed isn't fucking dangerous enough."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172131614" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172131614" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FTC Values Sponsored Conversations at $11,000 Apiece.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, the Federal Trade Commission made good on its threat promise to change the way it regulates endorsements from bloggers by releasing its final revisions to the guidance it gives advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act. Last May, we reviewed the proposed FTC guidelines that will now change the disclosure rules around paid endorsements and testimonials, and thus how brands use online endorsements in their marketing, advertising, and communications programs. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virginia's Electoral Farce]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ MOST VIRGINIANS are under the quaint impression that their state has a competitive two-party system. If only. The sad fact is that for the vast majority of legislative races in the state, real competition is a thing of the past. For that, Virginians can thank state lawmakers of both parties, who for decades have drawn lines on the voting maps for no higher purpose than to preserve their own grip on power. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ SO TROUBLING are the latest revelations about Nevada Sen. John Ensign's efforts to keep secret his extramarital affair with a former campaign aide that not even his friends are speaking up for him. "Judgment gets impaired by arrogance, and that's what's going on here," said Okla. Sen. Tom Coburn, relating how his fellow Republican got trapped in a stupid act and then followed it with a lot of mistakes. Mr. Ensign's behavior goes far beyond mistakes; he misused his office, and he must be held to account. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dogs, Videos and Violence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ DEPENDING ON whom you ask, Robert J. Stevens is either an avowed canine enthusiast and educational filmmaker or a man who traffics in the misery and violence of dogfights.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172143505" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472172143505" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Einstein Fellowship Lets Teachers Broaden Their Horizons]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ During his nine years at the District's Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, Mark Hannum taught math, from algebra to calculus and nearly every level in between. It was more work than sticking with the same course, but it gave him a broader perspective than he might have otherwise had. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma Brown]]></dc:creator>
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