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<item><title><![CDATA[ Behind The Palfrey Spectacle ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902459.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902459.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I am dismayed by the coverage of the Deborah Jeane Palfrey affair, particularly on television but in The Post as well. It was shameless on the part of prosecutors to choose the witnesses they selected and on the part of the media, including The Post, to give such detailed and lingering attention to the personal lives of the foolish women who participated in Palfrey's illegal enterprise. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Behind]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spectacle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H. Lawrence]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Panel Clears La. Senator In Call-Girl Complaint ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050803267.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050803267.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) was cleared yesterday of any ethical misconduct for his association with prostitutes from the escort service run by the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called "D.C. Madam" who was convicted of running a call-girl ring. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Panel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clears]]></category><category><![CDATA[La.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senator]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call-Girl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Complaint]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Agency for International Development]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Palfrey Described 'Exit Strategy' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050501055.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050501055.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the Washington escort service operator who hanged herself last week, left behind two suicide notes, including one that described her recent racketeering trial as a "modern day lynching." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Petula Dvorak]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Described]]></category><category><![CDATA['Exit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy']]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blanche Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey P. Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tarpon Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sun Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tarpon Springs Police Department]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ WEEK IN REVIEW ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301926.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301926.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924731298" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924731298" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[WEEK]]></category><category><![CDATA[IN]]></category><category><![CDATA[REVIEW]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colonial Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[DeOnte Rawlings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Nohe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tarpon Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security and Emergency Management Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suffolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Time to Name Names In the D.C. Madam Case? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203519.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203519.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Regarding the May 2 front-page article about the death of Deborah Jeane Palfrey: ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[Names]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jan Patch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Operator of D.C. Call-Girl Ring Is Dead in Apparent Suicide ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050201555.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050201555.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:20:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., May 2 -- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, facing a likely prison term of four to six years for running a Washington area call-girl ring, apparently hanged herself Thursday in a storage shed behind her mother's mobile home in this small Gulf Coast city, authorities said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan and Amy Shipley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Operator]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call-Girl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apparent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Operator of D.C. Call-Girl Ring Is Dead in Apparent Suicide ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050102076.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050102076.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., May 1 -- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, facing a likely prison term of four to six years for running a Washington area call-girl ring, apparently hanged herself Thursday in a storage shed behind her mother's mobile home in this small Gulf Coast city, authorities said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan and Amy Shipley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Operator]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call-Girl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apparent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blanche Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Moldea]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brandy Britton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tarpon Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sun Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison Klein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Leonnig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey P. Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery Blair Sibley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Petula Dvorak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pinellas County]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Scandal Story With a Most Unhappy Ending ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103763.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103763.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. Madam" of intrigue and introspection, committed suicide yesterday. Her mother found her body hanging in the shed on her property in Tarpon Springs, Fla.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924734629" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924734629" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Monica Hesse]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Story]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Most]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unhappy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ending]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heidi Fleiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lil' Kim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tarpon Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis Airport Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Week in Review ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902580.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902580.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Week]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cham Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin & Associates]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vatican Embassy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Maybe Not 'Bitter,' But Aware of the Loss ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803024.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803024.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHARLEROI, Pa. -- Sitting with friends over 74-cent cups of coffee at the McDonald's here, Bob and Michael Jeanmenne can see more than a few things that might affect their moods. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Maybe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA['Bitter,']]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aware]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charleroi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Jeanmenne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Jeanmenne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Arnoldt]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Watkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[McDonald's Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monongahela River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debra Keefer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Horan]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharyn Giovannelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teena Papa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rite Aid Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Your Obsession With Hanky-Panky ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041801760.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041801760.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Spare us the fantasies of Paul Duggan about the "D.C. Madam" trial [" 'D.C. Madam' Case Generating More Winces Than Thrills," Metro, April 14]. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obsession]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanky-Panky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverley Ramsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gainesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seymour Samuels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ An Excused Absence (Note From Holy Father Not Required) ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041603125.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041603125.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ P ope Benedict XVI will achieve a rare double filibuster today, closing down both the Senate and the House as more than 100 members of Congress flock to the papal Mass scheduled for this morning at Nationals Park.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924737611" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924737611" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Excused]]></category><category><![CDATA[Absence]]></category><category><![CDATA[(Note]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Holy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Father]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Required)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Byrd]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Clyburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Nussle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Gibbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Casey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[George J. Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leo Great]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statuary Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Archdiocese of Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Black Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Escort Service Boss Found Guilty ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041501564.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041501564.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal jury convicted Deborah Jeane Palfrey yesterday of running a Washington-area call-girl ring in the guise of "a high-end erotic fantasy service," rejecting her argument that she was unaware for 13 years that female escorts she employed were performing sex acts with clients for money. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Escort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Found]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preston Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Jury Begins Deliberations in Escort Service Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041400773.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041400773.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After hearing four days of testimony ranging from the X-rated recollections of 13 former call girls to tedious tutorials on paper-trail evidence by IRS and postal investigators, jurors in the federal trial of the alleged "D.C. Madam" began deliberating yesterday on the key issue in the sordid legal saga. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Jury]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deliberations]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Escort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preston Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Huang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'D.C. Madam' Case Generating More Winces Than Thrills ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/13/AR2008041302458.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/13/AR2008041302458.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How delightfully naughty Deborah Jeane Palfrey seemed a year ago, when the erstwhile escort entrepreneur first titillated the nation's capital. How sinfully delicious it sounded when she announced she would make public some records, exposing men who had used her service and women she had hired to indulge her clients' most intimate fantasies. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madam']]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Generating]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thrills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Huang]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christy Williamson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emperors Club VIP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hustler Magazine Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003486.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003486.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The alleged D.C. Madam once threatened the likes of a United States senator, a deputy secretary of state, and the man who created the war doctrine of "shock and awe." But the Madam's criminal trial this week has turned out to be less shock and awe than shock and ewww.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924741423" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924741423" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case,]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sordid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preston Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office Depot Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Navy Officer Took Call Girl Job ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041002274.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041002274.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Navy officer testified in federal court in Washington yesterday that she moonlighted as a call girl for Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service for six months, starting in 2005, when the military says she was assigned to the Naval Academy as a supply officer. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Took]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[Girl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Job]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhona Reiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Auburn University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Slash Of Scarlet in A Gray Court ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041004140.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041004140.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What seemed intriguing last May seems tedious now, post-Spitzer, post-Craig, post-Paterson. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Monica Hesse]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slash]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scarlet]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amanda Hardaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Bowden]]></category><category><![CDATA[L'Oreal SA]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From the GOP, the General Gets Unfriendly Fire ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903748.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903748.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What does Gen. David Petraeus have in common with the alleged D.C. Madam? More than you might think. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP,]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[General]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unfriendly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Rohrabacher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Flake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Tancredo]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad Green Zone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Ackerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Wilson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McHugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potter Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy Forbes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rayburn House Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roscoe Bartlett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry Everett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivy League]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ More Former Call Girls Take Stand ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903903.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903903.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In attempting to prove that former escort-service entrepreneur Deborah Jeane Palfrey was, in reality, an upscale pimp, prosecutors yesterday summoned seven more admitted ex-prostitutes to the witness stand in federal court in Washington -- not one of them as unlikely a call girl as Rhona Reiss, PhD.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924746439" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924746439" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[Girls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Take]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preston Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington City Paper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debborah Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhona Reiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sydney (Australia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Occupational Therapy Association Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of North Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CORRECTIONS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803438.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803438.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CORRECTIONS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grover Norquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harrison Archer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Grossman]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Albans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Landon School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Four Former Call Girls Testify at Palfrey Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040801706.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040801706.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Four self-described former call girls testified in federal court yesterday that Deborah Jeane Palfrey ran her D.C. escort service as a front for upscale prostitution, dispatching young, tastefully dressed women to homes and hotels in the Washington area for $250-an-hour sex with male clients. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Four]]></category><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[Girls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testify]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Huang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea Detty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Sorrow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Raphael]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauzia Mack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracie Hoeffel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Kay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Trial Starts in Case of Upscale Escort Service ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040700919.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040700919.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running an upscale prostitution service for a white-collar clientele in the Washington area, went on trial in federal court yesterday as a prosecutor warned jurors that they will hear "embarrassing" explicit testimony from call girls and customers, most of them appearing reluctantly under court orders and grants of immunity. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Duggan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Trial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starts]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upscale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Escort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preston Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlan Ullman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington City Paper]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Spitzer to Step Down as N.Y. Governor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031200495.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031200495.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, March 12 -- New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer, a rising Democratic Party star who won election 16 months ago as a crusading reformer against corruption, announced his resignation Wednesday after being ensnared in a federal investigation that exposed his double life as a longtime regular client of high-priced prostitutes.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924748243" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924748243" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith B. Richburg and Carrie Johnson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Step]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.Y.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silda Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albany]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayflower Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[NYP Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Capone]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Paterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Ness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy Singer]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Tedisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Golden]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Gillers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Agency for International Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Mayflower Hotel, Adding Yet Another Story ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031003487.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031003487.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New stop on D.C.'s sex scandal tour: Room 871 at the Mayflower! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayflower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hotel,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Another]]></category><category><![CDATA[Story]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Mayflower Corporation plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Lewinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pogues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Box Office Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Klimek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christian Siriano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clyde Tolson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Pelecanos]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Edgar Hoover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Buben]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Campbell Exner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Tripp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marv Albert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Napa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pentagon City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rasheeda Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Wiedmaier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roberto Donna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sherry Rowlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Keller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project Runway]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ If a Scandal Has Legs, It's on the List ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/17/AR2007121701796.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/17/AR2007121701796.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tough competition for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's inaugural list of the year's top 10 ethics scandals. The government watchdog's list, posted at http://www.citizensforethics.org, pays special attention to scandals that appear likely to blow into something bigger next year, said Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[If]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Has]]></category><category><![CDATA[Legs,]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[List]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Senator's Court Date Canceled ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/AR2007112102090.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/AR2007112102090.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge spared Sen. David Vitter an embarrassing appearance on the witness stand in a federal prostitution case when she abruptly canceled a hearing scheduled for next week. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Senator's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Date]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canceled]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Martin & Associates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gladys Kessler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery Blair Sibley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Ashcroft, Something Old, Something Nude ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502328.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502328.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was, let's face it, inevitable. And so, on Wednesday, at the swearing-in of Attorney General Michael Mukasey at the Justice Department, former attorney general John D. Ashcroft was reunited with "The Spirit of Justice," the 12-foot Art Deco-era sculpture his aides once famously covered with giant blue drapes at a cost of more than $8,000.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924751071" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924751071" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashcroft,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Something]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Something]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nude]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Karsner]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ashcroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lauren Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Ricks]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brett C. Gerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Fine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grace E. Becker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory Katsas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin J. O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lani Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark R. Filip]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathan J. Hochman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Corts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Goldberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Lung Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council for Christian Colleges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renewable Fuels Association]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110800645.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110800645.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Those who believe in the innate goodness of humankind have never walked the 100 block of D Street Southeast.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Walk]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walk,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy "Duke" Cunningham]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis Libby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brent Wilkes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Buckham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Doolittle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyle "Dusty" Foggo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchell Wade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie Plame]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilbur Mills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. General Services Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Strategy Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[MZM Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Regis Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Idaho Statesman]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Curt Weldon]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Sherwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dupont Circle]]></category><category><![CDATA[E. Barrett Prettyman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Steven Griles]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Doolittle]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Jenrette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Franklin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Tripp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori Moody]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lurita Doan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Foley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marv Albert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Lewinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver North]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pentagon City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porter Goss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[RFK Stadium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert W. Ney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandy Berger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaha Riza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom DeLay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Rudy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Watergate Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[West End]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Interior]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102469.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102469.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill C. Myrthil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.R. Ahlstrom]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. General Services Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Ross]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gladys Kessler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin P. Chavous]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Beth Sheridan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[V. Dion Haynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Public Charter School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Capital Planning Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Latin Public Charter School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anacostia (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Elizabeths Hospital]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Of Prostitutes and Prosecutors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR2007102202146.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR2007102202146.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's courtroom yesterday experienced the kind of harmonic convergence generally reserved for those occasions when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prostitutes]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prosecutors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery Blair Sibley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schwab Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[NYP Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gladys Kessler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyle Sampson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Goodling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Lewinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy "Duke" Cunningham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Cowden]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102313.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102313.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924751724" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924751724" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery Blair Sibley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony A. Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[A.J. Kramer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aretha Latta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gladys Kessler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikita Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preston Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Council Committee of the Whole]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Scholarship Fund]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Vitter Saga, Part Two ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/13/BL2007091300596.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/13/BL2007091300596.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:26:02 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For the moment, I think I've had enough about senators and sex. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saga,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Part]]></category><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Airlines No Longer Letting Senators Travel Like Senators ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202406.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202406.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Talk about traveling like a regular schlep. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Airlines]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Longer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Letting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Like]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senators]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202432.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202432.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Alleged D.C. Madam Wants to Subpoena Reporter, Senator ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202032.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202032.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:36:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The alleged D.C. Madam said she wants to subpoena ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) in hopes of showing she's the victim of a political prosecution.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924752915" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924752915" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol D. Leonnig]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Alleged]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wants]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Subpoena]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reporter,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senator]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702625.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702625.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402067.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402067.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Accused D.C. Madam Cites National Security ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090400858.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090400858.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:34:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The woman accused of being the D.C. Madam now argues that the fact that Muslim men used her elite, Washington-based escort service before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have played a role in the government's effort to prosecute her. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol D. Leonnig]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Accused]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cites]]></category><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Idaho Paper And Reporter, Craig Story Posed a Moral Dilemma ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902222.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902222.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dan Popkey, the Idaho Statesman reporter who spent eight months digging into allegations that Larry Craig had engaged in gay sexual encounters, recalls a recent stroll around the Republican senator's childhood ranch with a couple who have known him for decades.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924753372" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924753372" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Kurtz]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paper]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reporter,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Story]]></category><category><![CDATA[Posed]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moral]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302150.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302150.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Alleged D.C. Madam Wants New Attorney ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082301657.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082301657.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:12:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The alleged D.C. Madam and her court-appointed attorney want to part ways, according to papers filed today. She says they have "irreconcilable differences" that make it impossible for him to properly defend her against charges of running a prostitution ring. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol D. Leonnig]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Alleged]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wants]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attorney]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Local and Lurid: Read All About It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601898.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601898.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you're compiling a list of local scandals a nd the people behind them (and, really, how can you resist?), it quickly becomes clear that the Washington area is a capital region in more ways than one. From Deborah Jeane Palfrey and Jack Abramoff to Robert Hanssen and Marion Barry, there's no shortage of colorful characters whose deeds have set local, and even international, tongues wagging. As it has been around the globe and throughout time, "wherever you've got a lot of money and power concentrated, you're going to find somebody to abuse it," notes Zachary Schrag, a historian and assistant professor of history at George Mason University. No wonder Washington is such a hotbed of hanky-panky. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Breda Antoniades]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lurid:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Read]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602384.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602384.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924753920" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924753920" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Morals of a Muckraker ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080702078.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080702078.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dan  Moldea has been beaten up by thugs, trashed in the press, accused of chilling free speech and threatened with prosecution. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Kurtz]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Morals]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muckraker]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Great Time  To Be Paranoid ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601160.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601160.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Several times a month, a woman calls my office in the middle of the night and leaves long voice-mail messages about how she's the target of a vast, sinister conspiracy. I won't give her name -- obviously, she suffers from a mental illness. The conspiracy she perceives involves the U.S. military, the CIA, interference with her brain waves and constant monitoring by the evil people who, for whatever reason, have decided that her thoughts somehow threaten their nefarious plans. Sometimes she disguises her voice and pretends to be a lieutenant in the heroic resistance against mind control. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paranoid]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ REGIONAL BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101227.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101227.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[REGIONAL]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DISTRICT BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902424.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902424.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924754915" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=24924754915" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DISTRICT]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Private Sin, Public Matter ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701485.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701485.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Forgive me if I opt out of the "whatever happened to privacy" pity party that's convened in the aftermath of the Sen. David Vitter sex scandal. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Private]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sin,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matter]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Louisiana Senator Appears With Wife, Apologizes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601358.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601358.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) ended a week of seclusion yesterday to say he'll return to work in Washington, ending speculation that the Republican would resign after his telephone number appeared last week in the records of an alleged Washington prostitution ring. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Williamson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senator]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appears]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wife,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apologizes]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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