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<item><title><![CDATA[ Party Scene's In Crowd? Outsiders Staked a Claim. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082900891.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082900891.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Party crashers! The revolutionaries took over this convention, at least the A-list events and venues. Insurgents, cranks, anti-establishmentarians -- people who couldn't get a floor pass four years ago -- were the darlings of this week's festivities. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scene's]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crowd?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Outsiders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staked]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claim.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donnie Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burning Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eli Pariser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Fonda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Strauss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Silverman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will.I.Am]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arianna Huffington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Gibbard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Schweitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Rose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Dae Kim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danny Glover]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forest Whitaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Armisen]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hayden Panettiere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Foxx]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Siebel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenny Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Antonio Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kal Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katharine Weymouth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirsten Dunst]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seth Meyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy Garrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zooey Deschanel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Digg Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[HuffingtonPost.com Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kos Media LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[MoveOn.org]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nintendo Wii]]></category><category><![CDATA[ONE.org]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pepsi Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Save the Whales]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[U2]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kanye Performs, But Where's the Drama? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801691.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801691.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:05:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ So Kanye West did not disappoint: He showed up in Denver last night as promised, and he actually played a full one-hour show for a ONE Campaign/RIAA party early this a.m. It happens that he took the stage more than a full hour after anyone expected him to start playing -- but in a way, you know, that's exactly what we expected. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kanye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Performs,]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[Where's]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drama?]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ With Nelly and Daughtry, Convention Bashes Are the Hot Ticket ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801287.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801287.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER, Aug. 27 ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daughtry,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bashes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ticket]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevie Wonder]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Kennel Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flobots]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grammy Awards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Gerhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Dorgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Browner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cyndi Lauper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daddy Yankee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug E. Fresh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gayle King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Jam]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Legend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Antonio Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Sanchez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marian Wright Edelman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayna Nevarez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melissa Etheridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelly Furtado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick J. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Randolph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Sarandon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Daly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will.I.Am]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Leadership Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everclear (Musical Group)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hart Schaffner Marx Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Rights Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invesco Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Black Eyed Peas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Denver Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viacom Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Party Overload in Denver ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082702073.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082702073.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:47:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER (Aug. 27) -- This is what happens when there are too many celebrities at too many parties in town: Minutes before the headliner at Tuesday night's Impact Film Festival/MySpace/SAG soiree took the stage, the mostly suit-and-tie crowd at the hip and swanky Mile High Station was a tad confused.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982949218" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982949218" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overload]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hollywood's Own Party Agenda: 40 Bashes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082700254.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082700254.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hollywood's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Own]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agenda:]]></category><category><![CDATA[40]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bashes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Armisen]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart Townsend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashley Judd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maria Pinto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aisha Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Cumming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Hand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashley Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Springsteen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryan Collier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cyndi Lauper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jakob Dylan]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Clyburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Robert]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Antonio Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joy Bryant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Ann Akers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikki Grimes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Schiff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosario Dawson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Daly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Natural Resources]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Distilled Spirits Council of the United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[EMILY's List]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fall Out Boy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invesco Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Democratic Institute for International Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newsweek Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood Federation of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rock the Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Trade Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kanye West]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Education and Labor]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Survival of the Fittest Festivities ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was party gridlock in downtown Denver Monday night, thanks to the magical synergy of serious lobbyist money and the fleet of Hollywood celebs who seemed to arrive en masse that afternoon. So many soirees going on -- at least 40, according to some cheat-sheets -- that more than a few succumbed to natural selection. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Survival]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fittest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Festivities]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Bidens of Delaware Descend on Denver ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082503393.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082503393.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Meet the Bidens! Grandpa Joe brought the entire clan to Denver yesterday, introducing its brand of Delaware bonhomie to the proceedings. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bidens]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Descend]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Skinner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Stiff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daddy Yankee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daughter Ashley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Leno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Nettles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurie David]]></category><category><![CDATA[LeRoi Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Shear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ned Lamont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Perry Bacon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheryl Crow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Reynolds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilmington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnolia Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marriott Tech Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sugarland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Matthews Band]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Green Sunday' Concert Opens DNC ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082501209.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082501209.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:30:59 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Uh-oh -- wasn't it ix-nay on the Ohn-jay Edwards-way stuff this week? Country star Jennifer Nettles may have delivered the off-message non-sequitur of the week at Sunday's "Green Sunday" concert hosted by Hollywood global warming activist Laurie David.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982950056" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982950056" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sunday']]></category><category><![CDATA[Concert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opens]]></category><category><![CDATA[DNC]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Before the Roller Coaster, a Merry-Go-Round ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082402204.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082402204.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the days before the official start of the Democratic convention, the stars and headliners had yet to show, and Denver still belonged to the staffers, the reporters, the hangers-on, all trying to assess their prospects for the coming week. It felt a little like a wedding weekend, times about a hundred -- the gantlet of parties and receptions, the old friends to catch up with -- and a lot like a fraternity rush: Is this the cool place to be? Or am I missing something cooler? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Before]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coaster,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merry-Go-Round]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daryl Hannah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kanye West]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Perry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Adelman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Matthews Band]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[ONE.org]]></category><category><![CDATA[Random House Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recording Industry Association of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Six Flags Elitch Gardens]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Governor's Lively Night Off ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082200219.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082200219.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:49:42 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  If things had gone just a bit differently this spring, Martin O'Malley -- an enthusiastic backer of Hillary Clinton -- might have been one of those guys agonizing by the phone all this week, waiting for that invitation to be No. 2 on the ticket.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governor's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lively]]></category><category><![CDATA[Night]]></category><category><![CDATA[Off]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Michael Saylor's Brief Embrace of a Dating Guru ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082004157.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082004157.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Millionaire bachelor Michael Saylor keeps a tight lid on his personal life, so imagine our surprise when his name appeared -- as a "past flame," no less -- on an invite to celebrate a new dating book. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Michael]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saylor's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embrace]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guru]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jess McCann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Glitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toby Keith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benji Madden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good Charlotte]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[MicroStrategy Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bangkok]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Quaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hussein Onyango]]></category><category><![CDATA[La Plata]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nairobi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricky Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bad Religion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minor Threat (Musical Group)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forbes Media LLC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sibling Revelation: An Overlooked Branch of Cindy McCain's Family Tree ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082000253.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082000253.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:54:18 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982950825" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982950825" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sibling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revelation:]]></category><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overlooked]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branch]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tree]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Reliable Source ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082001695.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082001695.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reliable]]></category><category><![CDATA[Source]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hensley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marguerite Hensley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dixie Burd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicole Richie]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starbucks Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Cooley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christy Cooley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flavor Flav]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janine Vaccarello]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Madden]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Walsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karyn Le Blanc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberly Kindy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[America's Most Wanted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta Braves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Backstreet Boys]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[District's Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good Charlotte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Museum of Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Enemy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Redskins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Squealing Image: Waxing Delirious for the Jonas Brothers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081802769.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081802769.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Jonas Brothers own the hearts of millions of teens, and Dick Cheney-- well, aren't his approval ratings somewhere in the teens? So naturally these formidable powers were obliged to converge at the White House yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Squealing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Image:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waxing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delirious]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brothers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jill Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonas Brothers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Daughtry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Malitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirk A. Kempthorne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eddie Vedder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian MacKaye]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marissa Newhall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heather Mills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul McCartney]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disney ABC Cable Networks Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foreigner (Musical Group)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[League of First Time Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nissan Pavilion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pearl Jam]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Boston Globe]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Tussauds Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warner Theatre]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna (Entertainer)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bret Baier, Sharing His Pride and Joy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080100128.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080100128.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The day his son was born -- June 29, 2007 --was one of the happiest of Bret Baier's  life. One day later, the Fox News White House correspondent discovered that the baby had five life-threatening congenital heart defects. His father-in-law turned to him and said, "You've found your cause." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bret]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baier,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharing]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pride]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Francis Baier]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Jonas]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Bratton]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barron Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bret Baier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Britney Spears]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hilton Honors]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's National Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Republican Senatorial Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna (Entertainer)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Hill Elects to Widen the Scope of Its Pretty-People List ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003461.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003461.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The summer just got a little hotter with yesterday's release of the Hill's "50 Most Beautiful" list. As in previous years, the faces are lovely and bodies buff -- but the newspaper's fifth annual contest has expanded the gene pool by including children and spouses, such as . . . No. 4, drop-dead gorgeous "British goddess" Elizabeth Kucinich.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982951608" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982951608" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elects]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Widen]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scope]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Its]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pretty-People]]></category><category><![CDATA[List]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betsy Rothstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vito Fossella]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Grant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shayne Lamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Ellsworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Bilbray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Briana Bilbray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Palmer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Michael]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gresham Barrett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Lockhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kate Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurie Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norm Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiger Woods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zach Wamp]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Us Weekly LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ This Could Be Just the Ticket for Bringing Some Young Blood to Town ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000005.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000005.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Just]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ticket]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bringing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Town]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shia LaBeouf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nat Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Steinberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Wade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilbert Arenas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugh Hefner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kal Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nantucket]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heidi Montag]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disney ABC Cable Networks Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glamour Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[MyBarackObama.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[TMZ.com Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allegheny Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Civic Responsibility Set to T.I.'s Hip-Hop Beat ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072900026.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072900026.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Civic Responsibility Set to T.I.'s Hip-Hop Beat ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Civic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Responsibility]]></category><category><![CDATA[Set]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.I.'s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hip-Hop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shepard Fairey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry O'Connell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Lynn Rajskub]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rebecca Romijn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell Simmons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hip Hop Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carla Bruni]]></category><category><![CDATA[Etan Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Stamos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lennox Yearwood Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew Rolph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danity Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Southeast Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ugly Betty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Wizards]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Russert's Name to Live On in His Native City ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701898.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701898.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The tributes for Tim Russert keep coming -- especially in his beloved home town of Buffalo. A portion of highway has been named after the late "Meet the Press" host; the block he grew up on will be dedicated this week; and there's even a petition drive to change the name of the local airport. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Russert's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Native]]></category><category><![CDATA[City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buffalo (New York)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Britney Spears]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emeril Lagasse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco 49ers]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Kennerly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Le Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Siebel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Page]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergey Brin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shia LaBeouf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy J. Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buffalo Bills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buffalo Niagara International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canisius High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cedars-Sinai Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fair Oaks Whole Foods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meet the Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rock Creek Cemetery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert Family Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willie Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Jerry Springer' May Be Unholy, But Sales Are Divine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072404069.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072404069.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you want your protest march to stand out in the jaded nation's capital, you've got to bring some serious showmanship. A Catholic group out of Spring Grove, Pa., did just that when 30 members rallied Wednesday outside the Studio Theatre to protest the opening of " Jerry Springer: The Opera":<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982953826" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982953826" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Jerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springer']]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unholy,]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Divine]]></category><category><![CDATA[50 Cent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blessed Virgin Mary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Springer]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taco Bell Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Midgette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Balthazar Getty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Pitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Lockhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Alan Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marlin Fitzwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morey Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond Drake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rory Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudy Giulian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sienna Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Society for the Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke University]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Box Office Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royal Courts of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Larry King's Untold Tale ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303982.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303982.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We thought we knew everything about the colorful life of CNN's Larry King: Brooklyn childhood, rags-to-riches career, seven marriages to six women. But there's one secret he managed to keep from all but a few friends: His oldest son, Larry King Jr., with whom he reunited 14 years ago. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Larry]]></category><category><![CDATA[King's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Untold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annette Kaye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Spellings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Novak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alene Akins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eun Yang]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Kang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shawn Southwick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comedy Partners LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry King Cardiac Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[People Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Colbert Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet Corvette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ O.A.R. Brings It Home for MoCo Education ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072203376.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072203376.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How to bolster the hometown-hero credentials: O.A.R., the rock band that got started at Rockville's Wootton High, quietly decided a couple years ago to give to charity 50 cents of every concert ticket it sells, via a hometown organization, the Montgomery County Community Foundation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[O.A.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brings]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[MoCo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benj Gershman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christian Bale]]></category><category><![CDATA[O.A.R. (Musical Group)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County Community Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alfred E. Neuman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethany Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mariah Carey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nick Cannon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard On (Musician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharing Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sioux Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mad Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madison Square Garden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merriweather Post Pavilion]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From Big Night to the Big House ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072103130.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072103130.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before he became an accused felon and this summer's No. 1 tabloid scoundrel, Raffaello Follieri was a seemingly successful young businessman, the boyfriend of starlet Anne Hathaway-- and, for one special night in October 2006, the toast of Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Night]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raffaello Follieri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Wiehr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chip Pickering]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rene Auberjonois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Nardelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Winehouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Bancroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blake Fielder-Civil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooke Hogan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Weldon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elissa Ruffino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairbanks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frankie Valli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germantown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hulk Hogan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Ackerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Scott McDonald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie Sarah Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt LeBlanc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Pace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[A-listy National Italian American Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Follieri Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[GWU Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shakespeare Theatre Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category><category><![CDATA[VH1 Television Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Late Congressman's Return to the Capitol ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072002360.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072002360.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Lionel Van Deerlin spent 18 of his nearly 94 years of life in the House of Representatives, where he represented California's 42nd District. So after he died this past spring, his children decided to scatter some of his ashes at the U.S. Capitol.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982954983" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982954983" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Late]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressman's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Return]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Balthazar Getty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vernon Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen Iverson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Affleck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Busta Rhymes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duncan Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jake Tapper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Garner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberly Schneider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Viqueira]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riddick Bowe]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sienna Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Romo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too $hort]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caron Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Francis (Basketball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple iPod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daily News LP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flavor of Love]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco 49ers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Capitol Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Us Weekly LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Soul Man's Metal of Honor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703228.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703228.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ James Brown's Kennedy Center Honors medal -- a rare example of the prestigious performing-arts prize being offered for sale-- sold at Christie's auction house in New York yesterday for $10,000. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Man's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metal]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darren Julien]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christie's International plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Schwab]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Southeast Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Wizards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Bourdain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cal Dooley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilbert Arenas]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Lews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Andres]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miguel Villagran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Redford]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grocery Manufacturers Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington International Trade Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Survey Says: Time for a Change ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071603034.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071603034.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Frank Luntz took a poll of one -- and decided he should move to California. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Survey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Redford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bo Blair]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Dick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Bourdain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Spotnitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norm Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Schiff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Santa Monica]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott McClellan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Museum of American History]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bid on the Heavy Medal of Soul: James Brown's KenCen Bling ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600113.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600113.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:00:54 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Always wanted a Kennedy Center Honors medal? Never made the cut? Tomorrow, you can buy your very own. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bid]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heavy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medal]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soul:]]></category><category><![CDATA[James]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brown's]]></category><category><![CDATA[KenCen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bling]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Congressman Spends a Day in Uniform ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402719.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402719.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Woo- hoo! Who's that cute guy in the UPS uniform? Rep. John Lewis, who hasn't exposed his legs for . . . well, decades. "Most people have never , ever seen me in shorts," Lewis said with a laugh. "Some people said I had nice legs."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982956034" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982956034" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spends]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Day]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uniform]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan Kasten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonia Lofaso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara McKinzie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spike Mendelsohn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephanie Izard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wile E. Coyote]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alpha Kappa Alpha]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore Orioles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harper's Bazaar Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bounded Generosity ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071302145.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071302145.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Night after night, hundreds of those primo, $300-a-game seats behind home plate have been empty at Nationals Park. After our colleague Paul Farhi wrote about all that embarrassingly empty acreage, Army Lt. Col. Luke Knittig had a nifty suggestion: Why not fill those seats by giving them away to uniformed military personnel, he wrote in a letter to The Post. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bounded]]></category><category><![CDATA[Generosity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Pitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chartese Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh Brolin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Farhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verne Troyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Bromwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin Powers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Nagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[County Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fondation Lenval]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Greenfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Prendergast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Knox Leon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leon Wieseltier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Knittig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Molly Henneberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Holbrooke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samantha Power]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shreveport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vivienne Marcheline]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Naval Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Republic Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Shreveport Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed Health Care System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Busted, TSA-Style ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071100004.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071100004.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ So there's this guy Mike Daisey, a professional storyteller. Not like the lady telling fairy tales at the library. More like Garrison Keillor, but dark, or like Jerry Seinfeld with one really long joke. Had an off-Broadway hit a few years back with "21 Dog Years," a one-man show about his hellish job at Amazon.com. He's 35, lives in New York. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Busted,]]></category><category><![CDATA[TSA-Style]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Daisey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samiya Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[ESPN Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transportation Security Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christie Brinkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Esther Coopersmith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garrison Keillor]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Costner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Alamos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeline Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[JetBlue Airways Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virgin Gorda]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Long Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For the Kastles, D.C. Royalty ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071000016.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071000016.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:15:03 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tuesday's Washington Kastles opener -- held in an outdoor stadium downtown -- had all the comforts of a D.C. summer night, circa 1950: cold drinks, hand fans and few ties. Very retro, for those accustomed to air conditioning in every nook of the city.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kastles,]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royalty]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supporting Roles: Ryan Gosling as Darfur Activist and Humble Star ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How to avoid being a pompous celebrity activist type? Follow the lead of Ryan Gosling. Headlining a panel here yesterday with the title of "Confronting Genocide and Mass Atrocities," the young Oscar nominee took an abashed, self-deprecating approach.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982956848" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982956848" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supporting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roles:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gosling]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Activist]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Humble]]></category><category><![CDATA[Star]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominick Dunne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Condit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betty Bigombe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davis Guggenheim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camila Alves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carole Rome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chandra Levy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Dae Kim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drew Barrymore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin Pierce]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Prendergast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justin Long]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marissa Newhall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew McConaughey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omer Ismail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leisure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campus Progress National Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Institute of Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Spy Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ She's Getting in Touch With Her Soulful Side ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702892.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702892.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's a classic Washington story: Young person arrives from the boonies and through sheer moxie manages to network her way to fame, success and a pile of ignored default judgments owed to burned ex-pals. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[She's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Getting]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Touch]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Her]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soulful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Side]]></category><category><![CDATA[Farrah Ashline]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicole Kidman]]></category><category><![CDATA[GirlsGoingOut.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Smits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Urban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nashville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schenectady]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cruise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air Force One]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albany Times Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Spy Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category><category><![CDATA[People Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Campaign Season's Dog Days ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070400010.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070400010.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The latest angle on the presidential race: Which pooch will roam the halls of the White House? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Season's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Days]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Kennel Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob van der Linden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caroline Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christie Brinkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davis Love III]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Couples]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Funk]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Rivers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lenny Kravitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oreo Cookies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna (Entertainer)]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Real-Wife Adventure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203845.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203845.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Celebrity visits to Walter Reed have become a standard whistle-stop on the Hollywood PR train: Hug a soldier, sign a few autographs, hype a new project -- then disappear into the limo. Was Tuesday's screening of "Army Wives" (scheduled just before the July Fourth weekend) just another patriotic boondoggle? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Real-Wife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna (Entertainer)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brigid Brannagh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sally Pressman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Wodzianski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Woodruff]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Casey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Rivers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristina Bilonick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Woodruff]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheila Casey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tanya Biank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tatum O'Neal]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Spy Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sex and the City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Glass School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Wonkapalooza! At Aspen, a Weekend of the Big-Name Minds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103482.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103482.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The eerie quiet on Washington's dinner circuit? All the big talkers have gone to Colorado for this week's Aspen Ideas Festival -- what we call wonk summer camp. "It is an intellectual's Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey," Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley told us yesterday. "This isn't a group that plays volleyball on the beach over July Fourth weekend."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982957483" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352982957483" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Wonkapalooza!]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aspen,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weekend]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big-Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minds]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Means]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aspen Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anna Deavere Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Stiller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damian Woetzel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Bash]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Harman]]></category><category><![CDATA[John King]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Spellings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miley Cyrus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Federer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Serena Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venus Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Isaacson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cape Cod]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBRL Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madagascar]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City Ballet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wimbledon]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chefs' Banquet: You Think They'd Settle for the Menu? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070100058.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070100058.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gotta love foodies: Not content with merely adequate wine, a few connoisseurs sneaked their own bottles into Sunday's annual Rammy Awards at the Marriott Wardman Park. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chefs']]></category><category><![CDATA[Banquet:]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Think]]></category><category><![CDATA[They'd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Settle]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Menu?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacqueline Kent Cooke]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Redskins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. United]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Soccer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barton Seaver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Steinberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Ziebold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Kent Cooke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Hisaoka]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phyllis Richman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quavas Kirk]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terrence Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cruise]]></category><category><![CDATA[BMW AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iceland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Galaxy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Methodist University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union-Tribune Publishing Co.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Another Hollywood Tough Guy on the Ballot ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062902309.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062902309.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maybe it's time to rent "Predator" again. The 1987 sci-fi horror movie has spawned a trio of unlikely politicians: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura. . . and now Sonny Landham, who is running for the Senate in Kentucky. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Another]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirk Waldroff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Birmingham (Alabama)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Lunsford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Evert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frenchie Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Norman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Ventura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lenny Campello]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Janis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruben Studdard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Mill]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Screen Actors Guild]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Glass School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wimbledon]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Longer the Beau of the Ball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700237.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700237.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:52:52 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If David Beckham comes to town and no one has a party, was he even really here?  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Longer]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beau]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ball]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Much-Decorated Marine Vet Takes Aim at Iraq War Movies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062503428.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062503428.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former Marine sergeant Eric Kocher served in a battalion in the vanguard of the Iraq invasion -- and later as a consultant for a new HBO series about the war, "Generation Kill" -- so he seemed like the ideal person to ask the question that's bedeviled Hollywood lately:<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352983000258" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352983000258" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Much-Decorated]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aim]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Art Buchwald]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raffaello Follieri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Box Office Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Burns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fallujah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Edgar Hoover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recon Marines]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marriott International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bobby Kennedy, Still a Politician With a Difference ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500024.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500024.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bobby Kennedy -- Jedi knight? Had to wonder, hearing the feats of persuasion and (possible!) prescience attributed to him at a documentary screening and discussion at the Newseum on Monday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bobby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kennedy,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politician]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Difference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boy George]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caroline Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Mankiewicz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick J. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stevens Jr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heather Locklear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reggie Love]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Reiner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shailagh Murray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shawn King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caribou Coffee Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[NYP Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[People Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Grand-Slam Experience for Two Local Teen Aces ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062302591.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062302591.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand-Slam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cora Masters Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venus Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Means]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Serena Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Winehouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Noth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch Winehouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naomi Cavaday]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pearl Jam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sex and the City]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Sunday Mirror]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wimbledon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Specter, No Great Shakes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/22/AR2008062202320.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/22/AR2008062202320.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ First the fist bump, now the chemo dap! Sen. Arlen Specter, in his ninth week of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, is greeting friends with a cheerful tap of his elbow against theirs. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Specter,]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shakes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Card]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helsinki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Hager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh Bolton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maggie Hager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Brinker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budweiser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diplomatic Sauna Society of D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diplomatic Sauna Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At the White House for the Award, and Role, of a Lifetime ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062000058.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062000058.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Did you notice that Cuba Gooding Jr. was at the White House yesterday? He was studying world-renowned doctor Ben Carson, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352983000608" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352983000608" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Award,]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Role,]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lifetime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Carson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethel Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Redskins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba Gooding Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Max Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reed Doughty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Casey Aldridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne E. Kornblut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armstrong Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Palmer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Cooley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Lynn Spears]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Maguire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maddie Briann]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Keaton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rock Cartwright]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Skerritt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rayburn House Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nickelodeon Networks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Naniette Coleman's Favorite Charity: The Naniette Coleman Fund ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061803527.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061803527.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Naniette Coleman was headed back to grad school this fall but worried about the cost. So the staffer for the U.S. Trade Representative's office turned to YouTube, with a video making a pitch to friends, or strangers, to help foot the $65,000 bill. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Naniette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coleman's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Favorite]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charity:]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naniette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy School of Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avery Brooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Trump Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Hamlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isiah Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Letzkus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Kahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Fitzgerald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raffaello Follieri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy Samborn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sabrina Le Beauf]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Theatre Critics Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Date Lab]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyatt Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Choo Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Building Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the United States Trade Representative]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prada SpA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sex and the City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Atlantic Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Knicks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nordstrom Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Secret of the Ourisman Chevrolet Girl ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703227.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703227.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you ever turned on a TV in the D.C. area in the 1970s or '80s, you remember the Ourisman Chevrolet girl. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Secret]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ourisman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Girl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Gailey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Box Office Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dublin]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kauai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kerry Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Molly Bloom]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Angelos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Gunson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samantha Geimer]]></category><category><![CDATA[York (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levi Shemtov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Lerner]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan Kasten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betty Crocker Foodstuffs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family Circle Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irish Department of Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starsky & Hutch]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Television Food Network, G.P.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore Orioles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hershey Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Pooch Putsch at the Maryland Governor's Mansion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602920.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602920.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most controversial member of Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration has been ousted from his seat of power, ending a year-long Annapolis reign of terror. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pooch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Putsch]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governor's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mansion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Bakel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katie O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[50 Cent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Hand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashley Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevy Chase]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Robert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Chafed Texan in the Naked City ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502188.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502188.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington is a town filled with boobs.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352983001267" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352983001267" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chafed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texan]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naked]]></category><category><![CDATA[City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Hurt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Long]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Ovechkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Crawford]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Hockey League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHL Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHL Southeast Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Capitals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dupont Circle]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avery Brooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billy Molasso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harman Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Matessa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julius Caesar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kerrville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lady Godiva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kurt Rhoads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington Memorial Bridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Hillbillies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Gallery of Art]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Promise Keepers International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shakespeare Theatre Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Dallas Morning News Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ovechkin's Next Goal: Most Fashionable Player ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061300072.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061300072.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He's the highest-paid player in National Hockey League history, and was named MVP last night -- and now Alex Ovechkin has added another title to his formidable résumé: Fashion muse . . . or whatever you call celebrities with a clothing line named after them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ovechkin's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Next]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goal:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Most]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fashionable]]></category><category><![CDATA[Player]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Ovechkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Stipe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Hockey League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHL Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHL Southeast Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosario Dawson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Capitals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merriweather Post Pavilion]]></category><category><![CDATA[R.E.M.]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Correspondents' Association]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Russian Embassy, Vodka & Good Wishes Flow ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061201024.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061201024.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:08:05 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What this town needs is more vodka at noon. To celebrate Russia Day, the embassy invited 2,000 friends yesterday afternoon for vodka, music, caviar . . . and did we mention vodka?  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embassy,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vodka]]></category><category><![CDATA[&]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wishes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flow]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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