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<item><title><![CDATA[ Al Qaeda at 20 Dead or Alive? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502981.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502981.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Two decades after al-Qaeda was founded in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar by Osama bin Laden and a handful of veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group is more famous and feared than ever. But its grand project -- to transform the Muslim world into a militant Islamist caliphate -- has been, by any measure, a resounding failure. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bergen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Al]]></category><category><![CDATA[Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[20]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[or]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alive?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Hoffman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Sageman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Keller]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baitullah Mehsud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltasar Garzon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Casablanca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kandahar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Scheuer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Sheehan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Bergen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in the Maghreb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Despite al-Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[IntelCenter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[New America Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tora Bora]]></category><category><![CDATA[York University's Center on Law and Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Al-Qaeda At 20... ... Dead or Alive? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081601849.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081601849.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Two decades after al-Qaeda was founded in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar by Osama bin Laden and a handful of veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group is more famous and feared than ever. But its grand project -- to transform the Muslim world into a militant Islamist caliphate -- has been, by any measure, a resounding failure. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Bergen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[20...]]></category><category><![CDATA[...]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[or]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alive?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Hoffman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Sageman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Keller]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baitullah Mehsud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltasar Garzon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Casablanca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kandahar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Scheuer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Sheehan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Bergen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in the Maghreb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Despite al-Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[IntelCenter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[New America Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tora Bora]]></category><category><![CDATA[York University's Center on Law and Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Aging Gracefully -- It's a Real Workout ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502980.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502980.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most depressing thing about getting older is that it can't be stopped. Or so we've been told. The aging process seems to be one of inevitable decline, the withering away of both body and mind. No matter how much we rage against the dying of the light, we're still going to forget where we put our car keys. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonah Lehrer]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gracefully]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Real]]></category><category><![CDATA[Workout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dara Torres]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Merzenich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Andrews-Hanna]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna (Entertainer)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brett Favre]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonah Lehrer]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Botox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clearasil Facial Cleansers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Posit Science Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Productive Aging Laboratory]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Texas at Dallas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'We Are All Georgians'? Not So Fast. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It didn't take long for the "Putin is Hitler" analogies to start following the eruption of the ugly little war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. Neoconservative commentator Robert Kagan compared the Russian attack on Georgia with the Nazi grab of the Sudetenland in 1938. President Jimmy Carter's former national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said that the Russian leader was following a course "horrifyingly similar to that taken by Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinions;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331672246725" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinions;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331672246725" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Dobbs]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['We]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgians'?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[So]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fast.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mikhail Saakashvili]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republic of Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tskhinvali]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Czechoslovakia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow Kremlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kosovo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gori (Georgia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budapest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eduard A. Shevardnadze]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerasim Khugaev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Kagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tbilisi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Root, Root, Root for the Away Team ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401333.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401333.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING The Olympic Games aren't just a show for me; they're a family affair, and one that's turning out quite differently from what I'd expected. I'm Italian, but I've lived in China for about 20 years. My wife is Chinese -- and very patriotic -- and my two daughters grew up here. When they were small they knew that they were half-Italian, but when a Beijing taxi driver recently asked Maria, the younger one, "How do you say Italian in Italian?", she whispered to me in Chinese: "Dad, how do I say it in Italian?" ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Francesco Sisci]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Root,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Root,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Root]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Away]]></category><category><![CDATA[Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Academy of Film]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belgrade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chinese Academy of Social Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deng Xiaoping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dino De Laurentiis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kobe Bryant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Phelps]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sophia Loren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wang Lin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yao Ming]]></category><category><![CDATA[La Stampa]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ If You Can't Say Something Nice . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502982.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502982.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the moving vans approach 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the foreign policy establishment has begun churning out its obligatory judgments on the lessons and legacy of the George W. Bush era. Three new essays render an unexpected verdict, suggesting that history may treat The Decider much more gently than many of his critics might imagine. Although Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, neoconservative commentator Robert Kagan and even former Bush aide David Frum find plenty to dislike about the past eight years -- say, the rise of enhanced interrogation techniques, the bungled post-invasion planning for Iraq or the nuclear ambitions of Iran or North Korea -- they all contend that a President McCain or a President Obama will actually find a great deal to emulate in his predecessor's policies. Kagan and Zakaria argue that although the administration made significant mistakes along the way, it learned from them and took steps to make things right. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[If]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA[Something]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nice]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Kagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos Lozada]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Frum]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newsweek Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Movie, a Word and My Family's Battle ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081402331.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081402331.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Margaret and I were lingering in front of the multiplex one evening last summer, a mom and her adult daughter laughing about the movie we'd just seen, when a gaggle of cute pre-teen girls sauntered past. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia E. Bauer]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movie,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Word]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[My]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Battle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Stiller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forrest Gump]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia E. Bauer]]></category><category><![CDATA[DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Navy Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tom Ricks's Inbox ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502986.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502986.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The story below, from a military wife who asked not to be identified, reminds me that PTSD hurts more people than just the person suffering from it. My heart goes out to her. But reading her thoughts, I also found myself wondering whether she would feel the same way if her husband had lost an arm or his sight.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinions;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331672247508" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinions;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331672247508" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricks's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inbox]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ I'm Home, but Still Haunted by Guantanamo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502985.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502985.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I've covered the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2004 as military correspondent for The Post. Jumah al Dossari first caught my attention in October 2005, when I heard the story of his gruesome suicide attempt during a visit from his lawyer. Then known as Detainee #261, Dossari clearly was making a public plea for help. Though the U.S. military has said many times that all detainees at Guantanamo are treated humanely and that Dossari had been getting the help he needed, detention in Guantanamo apparently became more than he could bear. His wish to die humanized the desperation of many detainees held indefinitely at the facility. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jumah al Dossari]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[I'm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home,]]></category><category><![CDATA[but]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Haunted]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jumah al Dossari]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dammam]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tora Bora]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kandahar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kandahar Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Sweet Ride? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081101323.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081101323.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Having just reentered the world of car ownership a week ago, I read with some amusement about how Terry Box revels in driving his '07 Mustang Shelby GT despite its obvious contribution to global warming. Faced with a middle-aged man's car fetish in all of its glory, I had one basic thought: Get over it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ride?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry Box]]></category><category><![CDATA[MINI Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Mustang]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adams Morgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missoula]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reid Ewing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Civic]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Center for Smart Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Metro Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. Ltd.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Dreams That Drive Us ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802941.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802941.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The perfect home for an American family, as imagined by "National Builder" magazine in 1886, would look familiar in any photo spread of dream homes on newsstands today. Set on a lush, well-manicured lawn, it's a house of a distinctive yet stylish design, with a wide, welcoming porch and bay windows. We're certain that a loving family thrives here, safe and happy in the home it owns. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Wright]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Us]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Good Life (Musical Group)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thorstein Veblen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disneyland Resort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ladies' Home Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gas Is Sky-High and the Glaciers Are Melting. But I'm Not Junking My Great American Joyride. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802940.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802940.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ My car swills gas, downing shot after shot of rich red petrol. It rumbles rudely at stoplights, scaring the Prius drivers around me. Its flinty suspension -- stiff and unyielding as a tax-department bureaucrat -- pounds my middle-aged back on rough roads. After collecting a relatively minor speeding ticket a couple of summers back, I grappled briefly with car existentialism. "Aren't you a little old to be doing this?" the Dallas cop asked after he caught me with my foot in second gear like some over-amped teenager.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinions;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331672247722" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinions;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331672247722" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Terry Box]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sky-High]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glaciers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melting.]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[I'm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Junking]]></category><category><![CDATA[My]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great]]></category><category><![CDATA[American]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joyride.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford GT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Mustang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet Corvette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bud Lyon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Le Mans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry Box]]></category><category><![CDATA[BMW AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disneyland Resort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ferrari F430]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[HEMI Engines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz C-Class]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Corolla]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Dallas Morning News Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ That Was the Obama We're Still Waiting For ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802944.html?nav=rss_opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802944.html?nav=rss_opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the Democratic convention approaches, it's a safe bet that the cable networks will transport us back in time to late July 2004 by showing clips of Barack Obama's electrifying keynote address to that year's gathering. That was the speech that made him a star (and unlike John McCain's ad team, I mean this as a compliment). But I've sometimes wondered in recent months: Whatever happened to that Obama, to that enemy of excessive partisanship and evangelist of national unity? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Tomasky]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Was]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[We're]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Axelrod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas W. Kmiec]]></category><category><![CDATA[Galesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Chafee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Tomasky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Eisenhower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maytag Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category></item>
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