<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Arlington</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/arlington?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><description>Arlington</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[Condolences  Pour In for Va.  Crash Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When they heard about Monday's fatal school bus crash in Arlington, the students  --  from John Adams and James K. Polk elementary schools  --  wanted to help.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crash Devastates 2nd Family]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maria Garcia fastened a photograph of her cousin Harrison Orosco to a tree in front of his house yesterday morning. Then she walked around the yard and picked up two soccer balls and a volleyball and placed them under the picture of the 7-year-old boy who would not be playing with them anymore.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Football Players Warm to New Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The seniors on a Fairfax County high school football team got a glimpse yesterday of their cameo appearance in a soon-to-be-released television  film, but their thoughts were not of stardom or the silver screen. These players were dreaming about saving the nation's wetlands.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analyst Fired for Personal Trading]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7461-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7461-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Susan Kalla, a well-known and widely quoted Wall Street stock analyst who accurately predicted the collapse of the telecommunications equipment sector in 2000, was fired by Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. after an internal investigation into her personal stock trading, according to sources inside and outside the company with knowledge of the matter.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2nd Child Dies After Bus Crash in N.Va.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6263-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6263-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Monday's school bus crash in Arlington claimed its second life Wednesday night, a 7-year-old boy who died after being gravely injured in the collision with a trash hauler, authorities said.]]></description><author> Leef Smith  and Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picking a School Is a Multiple-Choice Question]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area parents enjoy an increasing choice of schools for their children. There are regular public schools, magnet public schools, charter public schools and, for parents with enough money, private schools, some faith-oriented and some not.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity Has Its Price for Home Buyers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3545-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3545-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Competition is so fierce for houses in Arlington neighborhoods near Metro stops that getting 10 to 30 offers on a property is common, according to Walt Babic, a real estate agent who has sold houses in the area for 33 years.]]></description><author> Barbara Ruben</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suburbs With a Sense of Place and Purpose]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5511-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5511-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ralph Rosenbaum chose to live in Old Town Alexandria because there was just something about the feel of the place:  the narrow streets, the town square, the brick and clapboard rowhouses pleasantly askew with age. And everywhere, there was a sense of history, as if the 18th-century town slept easily with the ghosts of its past.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Airways in Talks With America West]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3222-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3222-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[US Airways Group is in exploratory talks over a possible $100 million investment from America West Holdings Corp. The discussions have touched on a possible merger between the two carriers to create a large low-cost airline.]]></description><author> Keith L. Alexander</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Worst Nightmare Links School Bus Drivers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In her 11 years driving a school bus, Linda Farbry woke every morning and said the same prayer: "Please, don't let anything happen to my bus today." She used to think: You pass safety training. You check your mirrors. You drive carefully. But anything can happen. That driver, bloodied and screaming by the side of the road in Arlington on Monday? That could have been you.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Wreckage Is Searched for Answers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Investigators have ruled out major mechanical problems but came no closer to determining what caused an Arlington County school bus and a trash truck to collide.]]></description><author> Leef Smith and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[$1.86 Flights: Too Good to Last]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64639-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64639-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[US Airways set off a buying frenzy on Saturday, selling about 1,000 round-trip tickets in a few hours. The advertised price: $1.86.]]></description><author> Keith L. Alexander</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of Last Hugs, Goodbyes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64028-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64028-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Through the long afternoon yesterday, family, friends and neighbors streamed into the small yellow Arlington bungalow where 9-year-old Lilibeth Gomez had lived with her parents, her four sisters and her brother.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[School Bus Crash a Horrifying Scene]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62496-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62496-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lilibeth Gomez, 9, died after the bus she was riding collided head-on with a trash truck in Arlington Monday. One other child and both drivers were seriously injured.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell and Leef Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Animals Go, Volunteer Eyes Follow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59650-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59650-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the National Zoo's Panda House, Kristen Miller and Molly Frantz stared intently at the closed-circuit TV screens monitoring the whereabouts of the animals in an outdoor enclosure. The male giant panda was grooming himself. The female  --  who might be pregnant  --  was sprawled over a log, asleep. Miller typed observations into a computer while Frantz jotted notes.]]></description><author> Karlyn Barker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arlington Cuts Tax Rate by 8 Cents]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59448-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59448-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Arlington County Board approved a $759 million budget yesterday, cutting the real estate tax rate by 8 cents amid a protest organized by Republican activists clamoring for greater tax relief.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delaying Their Final Goodbyes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54433-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54433-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a stylish black suit, muted red tie and white shirt, Keith Barnes resembles a dignified funeral director as he sits down at his desk in the administration building of Arlington National Cemetery and notices the blinking red light on his phone. "Four in the queue," he calls out to fellow cemetery representatives. They're sitting at two rows of desks in the large, glass-walled office that looks out on the cemetery, just now emerging into spring.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence Speaks Volumes About Gay Support]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51707-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51707-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One girl wondered what her choir teacher would say later when half the class refused to utter a sound.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball in a New City]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51510-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51510-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Nationals' home opener brings baseball back to a different Washington than it was three decades ago in a region that is far bigger, richer and more diverse.]]></description><author> Michael E. Ruane  and D'Vera Cohn</author></item></channel></rss>