<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Summer of...</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/summer?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><description>Summer of...</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Season Washington Was Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47635-2004Aug30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47635-2004Aug30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thursday, Sept. 30, 1971, began as a dismal, rainy day in Washington. Good weather for a funeral, not much good for baseball. 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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis and the commercial hubs of black Washington melted in the fires of next time.]]></description><author> Neely Tucker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing The Wheel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6502-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6502-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Who knew that a Navy brat from Va. would discover the key to the modern skateboard?]]></description><author> Eric M. Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer of '63: A Dream Conferred]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52868-2004Aug9.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52868-2004Aug9.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hospitals stockpiled blood for emergency transfusions, liquor stores were ordered shut, and President John F. Kennedy placed 15,000 paratroopers on alert. The nation's capital was experiencing "the worst case of pre-invasion jitters since the First Battle of Bull Run," Life magazine wrote in August 1963.]]></description><author> Paul Schwartzman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hot Spell's Withering Heights]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35388-2004Aug2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35388-2004Aug2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the days of 90-plus temperatures melted one into the next, the summer of John Murphy's discontent only got worse.]]></description><author> Nancy Trejos</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Summer of Monica]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16300-2004Jul26.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16300-2004Jul26.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Summer of 1998, when Monica Lewinsky testified in a District federal court about her sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton, now seems a more light-hearted and frivolous time.]]></description><author> Lyndsey Layton</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Small Step Toward Unity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62893-2004Jul19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62893-2004Jul19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Abe Liss and his brother, Ben, had already rented out more than a thousand sets, but the phone at Beacon Television Rental, their store on Seventh Street NW, continued to ring.]]></description><author> Sue Anne Pressley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civics Lessons in the Crucible]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45234-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45234-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jerry Moran had traveled a long way from Plainville, Kan., and he didn't mind waiting. Who knew when he would pass this way again?]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bridge to Wealth, and to Loss]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29536-2004Jul5.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29536-2004Jul5.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Natives recall the summer of 1952 and how the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge reshaped the character of Queen Anne's County.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Summer Protest on a Sculpted Horse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13304-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13304-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 1960, civil rights protesters picketed Maryland's segregated Glen Echo Park for five long weeks.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Fish]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58978-2004Jun21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58978-2004Jun21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/summer</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Jaws" did more than pioneer the mega-budget, thrill-heavy blockbuster known as the Summer Movie. It made the summer of 1975 memorable.]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez</author></item></channel></rss>
