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<item><title><![CDATA[ Uncommon Ground ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503728.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503728.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Slevin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Uncommon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ground]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernardine Dohrn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blue Balliett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weather Underground Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abner Mikva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alison P. Ranney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arne Duncan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Kalven]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Pattillo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adlai Stevenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ahmad Jamal]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL Central Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arnold R. Hirsch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernadette Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Rush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Doty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago White Sox]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Terry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Urey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyde Parks]]></category><category><![CDATA[John D. Rockefeller]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Langston Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leon Despres]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little League Baseball Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louis Farrakhan]]></category><category><![CDATA[M. Todd Henderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcus Garvey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milton Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nation of Islam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul H. Douglas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandy Roach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sonny Liston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starbucks Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temple]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Weekly Standard Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribune Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie Jarrett]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Ray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sasha Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Lawyer Interested In Upping the Ante ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503965.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503965.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ High-powered Washington lawyer by day, high-roller poker maniac . . . when he can squeeze it in. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interested]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upping]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ante]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Goldstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katalin Roth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen Raymond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bel Air]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billy Ray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natan Sharansky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott McClellan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category><category><![CDATA[ESPN Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Washington University Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bellagio Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court rejects 'Survivor' winner's appeal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101502899.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101502899.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:27:14 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Richard Hatch's appeal of his conviction for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize he won on the debut season of "Survivor." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[rejects]]></category><category><![CDATA['Survivor']]></category><category><![CDATA[winner's]]></category><category><![CDATA[appeal]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CORRECTIONS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403256.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403256.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ · An Oct. 14 Business article incorrectly described cutbacks at General Motors as affecting three plants, including one in the state of Wyoming. Two plants are affected, including a metal-stamping plant that is being closed in the town of Wyoming, Mich.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621227884" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621227884" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CORRECTIONS]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Snyder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Clark Productions Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Redskins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Justices Hear Voting Rights Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402813.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402813.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court yesterday took up a proposed expansion of minorities' ability to file lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act, the first of two important voting rights cases the court could hear this term. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Watt]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Black Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pender County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Kengle]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Rehnquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pacific Legal Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From the Chief Justice, a Novel Dissent ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402818.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402818.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court turns down most cases without comment, but yesterday Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. decided that his colleagues' agreement not to hear a Pennsylvania drug bust case demanded a written dissent. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Novel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dissent]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean Devlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mickey Spillane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Supreme Court]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ohio executes inmate who argued was too fat to die ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402499.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402499.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:12:18 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[executes]]></category><category><![CDATA[inmate]]></category><category><![CDATA[who]]></category><category><![CDATA[argued]]></category><category><![CDATA[was]]></category><category><![CDATA[too]]></category><category><![CDATA[fat]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[die]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New sentencing set for would-be millennium bomber ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402791.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402791.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:06:26 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SEATTLE -- The resentencing for would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam has been scheduled for December.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621230050" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621230050" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[sentencing]]></category><category><![CDATA[set]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[would-be]]></category><category><![CDATA[millennium]]></category><category><![CDATA[bomber]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chief justice channels his inner Raymond Chandler ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101401763.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101401763.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:43:07 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court of the United States. Just after 10 o'clock. John Roberts was working his usual shift. Chief justice of the United States. Three years on the job. His reputation? Incisive questioner. Good writer. Fast. Funny. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[channels]]></category><category><![CDATA[his]]></category><category><![CDATA[inner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chandler]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court turns down Ga. death row inmate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101400957.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101400957.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:46 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ATLANTA -- The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for a Georgia man to be put to death for killing a police officer, despite calls from his supporters to reconsider the case because seven of nine key witnesses against him have recanted their testimony. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[turns]]></category><category><![CDATA[down]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ga.]]></category><category><![CDATA[death]]></category><category><![CDATA[row]]></category><category><![CDATA[inmate]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Human rights group condemns Saudi executions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101401502.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101401502.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:18:12 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CAIRO, Egypt -- Saudi Arabia beheaded two men Tuesday, the latest state-sanctioned killings in a country where use of the death penalty has risen sharply in recent years and a disproportionate number of those executed are foreigners, a rights group said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Human]]></category><category><![CDATA[rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[group]]></category><category><![CDATA[condemns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi]]></category><category><![CDATA[executions]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ohio executes man who argued he was too fat to die ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101401101.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101401101.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:12:41 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer Tuesday who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621232013" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621232013" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[executes]]></category><category><![CDATA[man]]></category><category><![CDATA[who]]></category><category><![CDATA[argued]]></category><category><![CDATA[he]]></category><category><![CDATA[was]]></category><category><![CDATA[too]]></category><category><![CDATA[fat]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[die]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lacking an Accord On Troops, U.S. and Iraq Seek a Plan B ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302846.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302846.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With time running out for the conclusion of an agreement governing American forces in Iraq, nervous negotiators have begun examining alternatives that would allow U.S. troops to stay beyond the Dec. 31 deadline, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen DeYoung]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lacking]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accord]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troops,]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seek]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[B]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brett McGurk]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Satterfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hoshyar Zebari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael G. Mullen]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muqtada al-Sadr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tariq al-Hashimi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The McClatchy Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times of London]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Our Broken Death Penalty ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302529.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302529.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I commend Gemma Puglisi, an American University assistant professor, for encouraging her students to learn about the case of Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis ["Seeking Justice on Death Row," Close to Home, Sept. 28]. Educating people about the broken death penalty system will ultimately lead to its abolition. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Our]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broken]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penalty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gemma Puglisi]]></category><category><![CDATA[American University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fatiah Hosein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Podium gets carried away during Bush toast ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101300490.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101300490.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:41:14 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toasted President Bush with pieces of a podium Monday night while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was dubbed a "prima donna" during translation in a Columbus Day official dinner at the White House. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Podium]]></category><category><![CDATA[gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[carried]]></category><category><![CDATA[away]]></category><category><![CDATA[during]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[toast]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Guests at White House dinner for Italian PM ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302283.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302283.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:58:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ -- Guest list for Monday's White House dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as provided by the White House.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621234080" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621234080" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Guests]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[dinner]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italian]]></category><category><![CDATA[PM]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court rejects obese Ohio inmate's appeal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302220.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302220.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:16:35 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CINCINNATI -- The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed. Richard Cooey is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[rejects]]></category><category><![CDATA[obese]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[inmate's]]></category><category><![CDATA[appeal]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawyer Alleges Bias In Case of Child Porn ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003294.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003294.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The attorney for a Loudoun County school official charged with possession of child pornography has filed a motion to remove the Loudoun commonwealth's attorney from the case, saying that the county's chief prosecutor has demonstrated bias and animosity. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Mummolo]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alleges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bias]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Child]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porn]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Plowman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ting-Yi Oei]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[James J. Faughnan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Commonwealth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicole Wittmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven D. Stone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas D. Horne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freedom High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayde Byard]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ MARYLAND BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002988.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002988.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[MARYLAND]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Franchot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre M. Beasely]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albert W. Northrup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Ivey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wagner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruben Castaneda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aaron C. Davis]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court considers case on judicial ethics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002254.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002254.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:21:46 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices regularly confront cases involving companies they own shares in or that employ a family member. The decision is easy _ the justices have a conflict of interest that forces them to play no role in the case.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621235594" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621235594" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[considers]]></category><category><![CDATA[case]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[judicial]]></category><category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ TiVo gets $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100901652.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100901652.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:23:31 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - TiVo Inc said on Thursday it has received the $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar Corp that it won this week when the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal of a patent infringement case. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reuters]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[TiVo]]></category><category><![CDATA[gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[$104.6]]></category><category><![CDATA[million]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[damages]]></category><category><![CDATA[from]]></category><category><![CDATA[EchoStar]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Religion news in brief ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100900665.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100900665.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:51:45 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormons should strive for unity at home, in the church and with those whose backgrounds and opinions differ from Latter-day Saints, a senior church leader said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[brief]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ NOAA, Court Focus On Marine Mammals ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100801992.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100801992.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The government yesterday issued a long-delayed regulation imposing speed limits on East Coast ship traffic that threatens the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, while barely a mile away the Supreme Court wrestled with a dispute between the Navy and environmentalists over the impact of sonar exercises on whales and other marine mammals. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Markon and Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[NOAA,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conrad Lautenbacher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Hennessey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Reeves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Union for Conservation of Nature]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Esquire backs Obama in its first endorsement ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100803059.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100803059.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:25:40 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Esquire is backing Democrat Barack Obama for president _ its first endorsement in the magazine's 75-year history.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621238221" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621238221" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Esquire]]></category><category><![CDATA[backs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[its]]></category><category><![CDATA[first]]></category><category><![CDATA[endorsement]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court wrestles with case on Navy sonar, whales ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800374.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800374.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:21:35 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over how to resolve a long-running dispute over whether environmental laws may be used to limit the Navy's use of sonar to protect whales. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[wrestles]]></category><category><![CDATA[with]]></category><category><![CDATA[case]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category><category><![CDATA[sonar,]]></category><category><![CDATA[whales]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court sympathetic to worker's retaliation claims ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802291.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802291.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:07:52 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[sympathetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[worker's]]></category><category><![CDATA[retaliation]]></category><category><![CDATA[claims]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Poorer D.C. Residents Lacking Legal Services ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702978.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702978.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Low-income D.C. residents are not getting enough assistance in pursuing landlord-tenant cases, custody disputes, small-claims matters and other civil litigation, according to a report issued yesterday by a court-appointed panel. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith L. Alexander]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Poorer]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Residents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lacking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter B. Edelman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric T. Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee F. Satterfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[DLA Piper Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice Commission]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Judge orders Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo freed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100701383.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100701383.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:57:51 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday, in a rebuke to the Bush administration, ordered the prompt release in the United States of 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621242470" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621242470" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reuters]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Judge]]></category><category><![CDATA[orders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[freed]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court dispute over who gets retirement money ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702261.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702261.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:37:42 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- If William Kennedy had updated all his financial paperwork in accordance with his divorce decree, chances are his daughter would not have been at the Supreme Court on Tuesday fighting for the $402,000 she thinks should be hers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[dispute]]></category><category><![CDATA[over]]></category><category><![CDATA[who]]></category><category><![CDATA[gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category><category><![CDATA[money]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Station Break ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/06/DI2008100602049.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/06/DI2008100602049.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Join Paul Farhi on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 1 p.m. ET for all things pop culture ("Saturday Night Live's" political sketches, sideline reporters, An American Carol, etc.) to a few things not (like his story on John McCain's first marriage). Part of this great country. And also. Thank you. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[Break]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The No-Confidence Man ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/10/07/BL2008100701355.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/10/07/BL2008100701355.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "We're going to come through this just fine," President Bush said yesterday, in a lackluster attempt to be reassuring as the financial markets tanked. "I believe in the long run this economy is going to be just fine." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[No-Confidence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Election 2008: Election Law (and How They Break It) ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/05/DI2008100502672.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/05/DI2008100502672.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "How to Rig an Election" author Allen Raymond -- convicted of jamming New Hampshire Democratic Party phone banks on Election Day in 2002 -- and Ohio State University Election Law center Associate Director Daniel P. Tokaji were online Tuesday, Oct. 10 at noon ET to discuss election laws, how campaigns get around them, and the challenges that are being and may be fought in the courts this year.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621248992" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621248992" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Election]]></category><category><![CDATA[2008:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Election]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[(and]]></category><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[They]]></category><category><![CDATA[Break]]></category><category><![CDATA[It)]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Today in History - Oct. 7 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100700006.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100700006.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:02:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ -- Today is Tuesday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2008. There are 85 days left in the year. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[-]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oct.]]></category><category><![CDATA[7]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Suit on Tobacco Ads Sparks Feisty Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602934.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602934.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court waded yesterday into a complicated legal debate over whether tobacco companies can be sued in state courts for deceptive advertising of "light" cigarettes, a dispute that has divided government regulators and the business community. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Suit]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tobacco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sparks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Feisty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Altria Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Morris International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda J. Conti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin S. Conrad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerson H. Smoger]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Stresses Judicial Nominations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602851.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602851.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CINCINNATI, Oct. 6 -- President Bush stepped gingerly into the presidential campaign on Monday, offering an implicit endorsement of Sen. John McCain's judicial philosophy and accusing Democrats of contributing to a "broken confirmation process" for federal judges. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stresses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judicial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nominations]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nan Aron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Whelan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alliance for Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethics and Public Policy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Outspoken Dean of National Cathedral ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100603142.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100603142.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Francis B. Sayre Jr., who as dean of Washington National Cathedral for 27 years oversaw much of its completion and used his pulpit to confront McCarthyism, racial tensions and the Vietnam War, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 93 and had diabetes.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621250198" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621250198" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Bernstein]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Outspoken]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathedral]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ VIRGINIA BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602936.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602936.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[VIRGINIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eddy Azcarate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daeshawn T. McDonald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Jackman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hunters Woods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Birnbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sami Al-Arian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tampa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Briar Woods High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fox Mill Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giant Food LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Adult Detention Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High Court Lets Dish Ruling Stand ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100603017.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100603017.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected Dish Network's appeal of a patent-infringement ruling that may force the company to shut down its digital video recording service and pay TiVo hundreds of millions of dollars. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Stohr]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dish]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stand]]></category><category><![CDATA[TiVo Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[EchoStar Communications Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texarkana]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court allows 'choose life' license plate in Ariz. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600850.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600850.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:33:05 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PHOENIX -- An anti-abortion group has won a long legal fight to force Arizona to issue "choose life" license plates, and the proposed new plates could be available to the group's members within several months. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[allows]]></category><category><![CDATA['choose]]></category><category><![CDATA[life']]></category><category><![CDATA[license]]></category><category><![CDATA[plate]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ariz.]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ paidContent.org - Supreme Court Denies Dish&#39;s Petition On TiVo Patent Damage Award; TiVo Will Be Paid $104 Million ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601107.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601107.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:07:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TiVo ( NSDQ: TIVO) has scored another legal victory in its battle against the Dish Network. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Dish's appeal on a $74 million penalty for violating the patent on TiVo's Time Warp, AP reported. In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed with a lower court that DVRs distributed by Dish, formerly known as EchoStar Communications ( NSDQ: SATS), violated TiVo's Time Warp feature, which covers devices that can record, store, play, rewind and fast forward live TV. That ruling overturned the lower court's finding that Dish also infringed on the patent's hardware elements. Two years ago, a Texas jury found that Dish had violated TiVo's patent and awarded the company $94 million in damages. In the meantime, Dish Network has said it is creating new software for its DVR feature that will avoid the previous DVR issues.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621253382" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621253382" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paidContent]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[paidContent.org]]></category><category><![CDATA[-]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dish&#39;s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Petition]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[TiVo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Award;]]></category><category><![CDATA[TiVo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paid]]></category><category><![CDATA[$104]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush aides win delay for congressional testimony ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601441.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601441.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:04:34 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Monday rejected House Democrats' demands to force two of President Bush's top aides to cooperate with an investigation about the firings of nine federal prosecutors in 2006. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[aides]]></category><category><![CDATA[win]]></category><category><![CDATA[delay]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[congressional]]></category><category><![CDATA[testimony]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court could block 'light' cigarettes lawsuit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600224.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600224.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:47:07 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court picked up Monday where it left off last term, signaling support for efforts to block lawsuits against tobacco companies over deceptive marketing of "light" cigarettes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[could]]></category><category><![CDATA[block]]></category><category><![CDATA['light']]></category><category><![CDATA[cigarettes]]></category><category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush pushes Senate to confirm federal judges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601327.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601327.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:23:57 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CINCINNATI -- President Bush reminded Americans Monday that his eight years of appointing conservative judges will affect the nation for decades, hoping to secure his legacy but also help fire up Republicans in must-win Ohio a month before the presidential election. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[pushes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[confirm]]></category><category><![CDATA[federal]]></category><category><![CDATA[judges]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court denies appeal of judge's sentencing goof ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601284.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601284.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:30:21 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MOBILE, Ala. -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from an Alabama man who was sentenced to five years in prison when a judge wrongly thought the law required him to serve time.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621254744" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621254744" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[denies]]></category><category><![CDATA[appeal]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[judge's]]></category><category><![CDATA[sentencing]]></category><category><![CDATA[goof]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Terror case: Top court won't hear ex-prof's appeal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601217.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100601217.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:19:19 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ McLEAN, Va. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a former Florida professor once accused of being a top Palestinian terrorist. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Terror]]></category><category><![CDATA[case:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[hear]]></category><category><![CDATA[ex-prof's]]></category><category><![CDATA[appeal]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Predicting the Picks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502178.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502178.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Predicting whom a president might nominate to the Supreme Court is a hazardous venture that depends on whom he is replacing, the Senate's makeup and political concerns. But two experts on the court and nominations give it a try. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Predicting]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Picks]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas C. Goldstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane P. Wood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles J. Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane S. Sykes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elena Kagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Clement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Feld LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scotusblog.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court's Direction Hinges on Who Wins '08 Race ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502175.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502175.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There were not many conspicuous tributes to the legacy of President Bush at last month's Republican National Convention, but there was at least one. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Barnes]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Direction]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hinges]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA['08]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McGinnis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Dellinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miguel Estrada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendy Long]]></category><category><![CDATA[College of William & Mary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute of Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Justices attend Red Mass before new term ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500995.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500995.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:16:24 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The law is a guide to an orderly society, an American cardinal said an a church service Sunday that included five Supreme Court justices ahead of the start of their new term.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621256314" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621256314" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justices]]></category><category><![CDATA[attend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mass]]></category><category><![CDATA[before]]></category><category><![CDATA[new]]></category><category><![CDATA[term]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ ICE Slow to Deport Detained ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100402051.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100402051.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Illegal immigrants detained as part of the stepped-up enforcement effort in Virginia stay in the country far longer than they should because of a detention and deportation system beset by waste and dysfunction, according to lawyers, detainee accounts and observations of courtroom proceedings. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Miroff and Josh White]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slow]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detained]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugenio Silva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Tom Haynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brittney Nystrom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Komis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norma Portales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ofelia Calderon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayne R. Iskra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington Detention Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[CAIR Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellis Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paraguay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statue of Liberty]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What McCain Learned From the Rough Rider ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303306.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303306.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain, like many Americans who should know better, extravagantly praises Theodore Roosevelt. He is a kindred spirit of the impulsive Rough Rider, but the visceral McCain is rescued from some of TR's excesses by not having TR's overflowing cupboard of ideas. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[George F. Will]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Learned]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rider]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua David Hawley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[William James]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court term begins quietly in campaign season ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400859.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400859.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:15:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is doing its best to stay out of the spotlight in the final days of the presidential campaign and while the other two branches of government struggle to deal with turmoil in the financial markets. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[term]]></category><category><![CDATA[begins]]></category><category><![CDATA[quietly]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[season]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ethics Counsel Testimony Is Sought in Currie Probe ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303189.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303189.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As part of an ongoing probe of Sen. Ulysses Currie, federal prosecutors are seeking to force the lawyer who gives ethics advice to the Maryland General Assembly to testify before a grand jury, a move that state lawyers have vigorously resisted as a breach of attorney-client privilege.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621259175" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621259175" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Wagner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Counsel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testimony]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sought]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Currie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ulysses Currie]]></category><category><![CDATA[William G. Somerville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Dachille]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Frosh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dale Kelberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judicial Proceedings Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland School of Law]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Man Gets 60 Years for Murder, Rape of Neighbor, 77 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301927.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301927.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced a Southeast Washington man yesterday to 60 years in prison for the 2004 rape and murder of his 77-year-old neighbor. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith L. Alexander]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[60]]></category><category><![CDATA[Years]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Murder,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rape]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neighbor,]]></category><category><![CDATA[77]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Pettus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neal E. Kravitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Gorman]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Atheist group sues Bush over national prayer day ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303196.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303196.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:26:12 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MADISON, Wis. -- The nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics is suing President Bush, the governor of Wisconsin and other officials over the federal law designating a National Day of Prayer. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Atheist]]></category><category><![CDATA[group]]></category><category><![CDATA[sues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[over]]></category><category><![CDATA[national]]></category><category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category><category><![CDATA[day]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Trail ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203945.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203945.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beau Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendy Long]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dover (Delaware)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Bliss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Perry Bacon Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Barnes]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware National Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Entertainment Tonight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Army National Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Track Palin]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Keeping Score With the Team Players ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203826.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203826.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Some Obamaniacs have been grousing that the Clintons have not, despite fine speeches in Denver, rallied behind the Democratic presidential candidate and instead are barely going through the motions. That didn't seem quite right, but we kept hearing the complaints, so we did a spot check of what the Clintons have been saying of late.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621302436" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621302436" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Keeping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Score]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[Players]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everett Dirksen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harlem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Starr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Knoller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Luttig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Whitewater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mont. same-sex parental rights ruling appealed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203546.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203546.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:41:33 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HELENA, Mont. -- A Montana woman who lost a court battle with her former same-sex partner over parental rights filed an appeal Thursday with the state Supreme Court. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AP]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mont.]]></category><category><![CDATA[same-sex]]></category><category><![CDATA[parental]]></category><category><![CDATA[rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[appealed]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Slate: A Gaffe a Minute? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/01/DI2008100102659.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/01/DI2008100102659.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Slate XX Factor bloggers Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon were online Thursday, Oct. 2 at 3:30 p.m. ET to outline each candidates' keys to victory in tonight's vice presidential debate and discuss other Election 2008 issues. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Slate:]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minute?]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court Won't Reconsider Ban on Execution for Child Rape ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101114.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101114.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court yesterday declined to revisit its June decision that imposing the death penalty on child-rapists is unconstitutional, although two justices said they would have reopened the case and two others sharply criticized the majority. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Barnes]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reconsider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Execution]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Child]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rape]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick O. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Biden, Aides Focus On Tone of Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103143.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103143.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. spent the past several days at a hotel in Wilmington, Del., preparing for tonight's vice presidential debate in St. Louis, surrounded by a clutch of top aides and Democratic strategists.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621306939" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621306939" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Perry Bacon Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Biden,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aides]]></category><category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tone]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geraldine Ferraro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert L. Ehrlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Vogel]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Wade]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Lazio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Axelrod]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilmington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Frist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Kennedy Townsend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kay Bailey Hutchison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Klain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie Biden Owens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York State Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Case Closed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100102775.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100102775.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE SUPREME COURT erred yesterday in deciding not to rehear a case involving the death penalty for the rape of a child. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Civil Rights Lawyer J.L. Chestnut Jr., 77 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103201.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103201.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ J.L. Chestnut Jr., 77, the first black lawyer in Selma, Ala., and an attorney for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the city's landmark protest marches of the early 1960s, died Sept. 30 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Holley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[J.L.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chestnut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jr.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[77]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ VIRGINIA BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002814.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002814.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[VIRGINIA]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Allen Muhammad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lutchman L. Chandler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baskerville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean H. Meyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Western Virginia Water Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harrisonburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Mummolo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith A. Baskerville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liam O'Grady]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Ebert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stafford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Resources Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Outlook: In Roe's Reversal, a Trap ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/26/DI2008092602714.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/26/DI2008092602714.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "President McCain appoints a suitably conservative replacement, and a complaisant or cowed Senate confirms the nomination. ... Well, that wouldn't be so bad, you may think. Some states (or even cities and counties) will offer abortion, and others won't. Women will just have to go to New York or someplace else if they want or need to end a pregnancy. A lot of states had pretty liberal laws in 1972 ... but it's not 1972. ... Is it possible, you ask, that in a post-Roe world, states would be able to pass valid laws stopping women from leaving to obtain an abortion? It seems un-American. But a lot of law professors have looked at this question, and although they're still debating it, many of the best in the business believe that this is something states probably can do."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621309312" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621309312" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Outlook:]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roe's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reversal,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trap]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Eclectic Touch Draws Believers To Synagogue ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802540.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802540.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Offering comedians, cooking classes, rock concerts, authors and a sex therapist, along with an eclectic collection of worship services, Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in downtown Washington doesn't fit the mold of a standard house of worship. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacqueline L. Salmon]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Eclectic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Touch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Draws]]></category><category><![CDATA[Believers]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Synagogue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelton Zuckerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Southeast Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Wizards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abe Pollin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Alda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryan Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Jemal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drew Pinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Esther Foer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matisyahu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sixth & I Historic Synagogue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[African Methodist Episcopal Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[B'nai B'rith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grizzly Bear (Musical Group)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ If Roe Goes, Our State Will Be Worse Than You Think ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602833.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602833.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the 1980s, when abortion was severely limited in then-West Germany, border guards sometimes required German women returning from foreign trips to undergo vaginal examinations to make sure that they hadn't illegally terminated a pregnancy while they were abroad. According to news stories and other accounts, the guards would stop young women and ask them about drugs, then look for evidence of abortion, such as sanitary pads or nightgowns, in their cars, and eventually force them to undergo a medical examination -- as West German law empowered them to do. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Hirshman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[If]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goes,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Our]]></category><category><![CDATA[State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Think]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Granite City]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron R. White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Neuman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Hirshman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Fallon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Rehnquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guttmacher Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Seeking Justice on Death Row ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603351.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603351.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By now you may know about Troy Anthony Davis, the 39-year-old death row inmate from Georgia who received a temporary stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court last week. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Seeking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Row]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark MacPhail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martina Correia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Archbishop Desmond Tutu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gemma Puglisi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen Prejean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category><category><![CDATA[American University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burger King Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Georgia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Informant Might Have Stood Among Gun Safety Activists ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702662.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702662.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The day the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the D.C. gun ban, leading gun control advocates dialed into a nationwide conference call to coordinate how the movement should frame its reaction to the media.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621312025" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621312025" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jenna Johnson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Informant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Might]]></category><category><![CDATA[Have]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Among]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary McFate]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryan Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy Ward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Hohlt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Lautenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ceasefire New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fran Trutt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million Mom March]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robyn Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freedom States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Legislative Action]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mother Jones Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[States United to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Surgical Corp.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Man Gets 51-Year Term For Trying to Kill Officer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603388.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603388.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Fairfax County man who put a gun to a police officer's head last year was sentenced yesterday to 51 years in prison for attempted capital murder of a police officer and related charges. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Jackman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[51-Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[Term]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trying]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Casey M. Lingan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene B. Bork]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Reinhard]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Rohrer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Civic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Barrington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael S. Davis]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Books: Libel Law and First Amendment Issues ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/17/DI2008091702866.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/17/DI2008091702866.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. journalist Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of "Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed -- and How to Stop It," was online Friday, Sept. 26 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss a new U.S. law that would protect U.S. citizens against libel judgments in countries with weaker protections for the press, a problem she faced when sued by a Saudi businessman. She was joined by First Amendment Center executive director Gene Policinski.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Books:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Libel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[First]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amendment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Aw-Shucks Defense ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504299.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504299.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Ted Stevens, his career and his freedom in jeopardy, did the honorable thing as he went on trial yesterday on corruption-related charges. He blamed his wife. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aw-Shucks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendan Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Cisneros]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver North]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orrin Hatch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brookstone Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Rover Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quentin Wilber]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawmaker Asks Court To Dismiss Charges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092402173.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092402173.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 24 -- Nearly all of the corruption charges against U.S. Rep. William J. Jefferson should be dismissed because prosecutors improperly presented evidence of his legislative activities to a grand jury, attorneys for the Louisiana Democrat told a federal appeals court Wednesday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621313612" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621313612" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawmaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dismiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark D. Lytle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Wellstone's Legacy Nears Fruition ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403821.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403821.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This week, policy and politics combined with something that is sometimes just as important on Capitol Hill: the personal regard some lawmakers have for one another. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Wellstone's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Legacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nears]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fruition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chaz Guest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Domenici]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Wellstone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wellstone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Max Baucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eva Malecki]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyannis Port]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Middleton Clayton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndsey Layton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen T. Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[DuSable Museum of African American History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen Keller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Women's Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obituaries ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403404.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403404.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obituaries]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gala Honors Half-Century Of Education ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092401809.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092401809.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ They came out in gowns and tuxedos last week to celebrate five decades of educational opportunity offered to legions of Prince George's County residents through a college that got its start in empty classrooms at Suitland High School. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Avis Thomas-Lester]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gala]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Half-Century]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack B. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bladen Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlene Dukes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Collin V. Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oleta Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[High Technology Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's Community College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony G. Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suitland High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alonia C. Sharps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea Harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Gansler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elvis Presley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Ivey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyattsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jolene Ivey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orlan Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy Weaver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrews Air Force Base]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaylord Entertainment Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurel College Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Northwest Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Western Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma City Thunder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle SuperSonics]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Largo (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Case of Slaying Near Landmark Is Sent to Grand Jury ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092400971.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092400971.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A witness testified in a preliminary hearing Tuesday that she saw Randy D. Baldon, a 25-year-old Alexandria man charged with first-degree murder, shoot another man several times and flee.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621315624" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621315624" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christian Davenport]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slaying]]></category><category><![CDATA[Near]]></category><category><![CDATA[Landmark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sent]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jury]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy D. Baldon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell M. Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irv Ellman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald M. Haddock Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denise Tassi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Durkin]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Around the Nation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092303666.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092303666.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Around]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aafia Siddiqui]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael J. Garcia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michele Cossey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norristown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Berman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Dominique]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terrebonne Parish]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ MARYLAND BRIEFING ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202933.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202933.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[MARYLAND]]></category><category><![CDATA[BRIEFING]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrick Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah K. Chasanow]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Abbott]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrews Air Force Base]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davies Tydings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank C. Conahan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henri E. Cauvin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Weil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Zapotosky]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Orange]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Steering the McCain Campaign, a Lot of Old Bush Hands ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092101608.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092101608.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Gov. Sarah Palin flew home to Alaska for the first time since being named the Republican vice presidential nominee, she brought along at least half a dozen new advisers to conduct briefings, stage-manage her first television interview and help her prepare for a critical debate next month. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne E. Kornblut and Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Steering]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lot]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hands]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Weaver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Wallace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maria Comella]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucker Eskew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Porritt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Holtz-Eakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Jenkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Salter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew Scully]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Murphy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicolle Wallace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen E. Biegun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracey Schmitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[W. Taylor Griffin]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pandering on Guns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092101647.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092101647.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DISTRICT RESIDENTS are accustomed to politicians with no stake in their city playing games with their rights. There's a special insult, though, when people who profess to care about the District throw its interests under the bus for political gain. Such is the case with Senate hopeful Mark R. Warner (D) and his disappointing embrace of a bill that would strip the city of any ability to regulate guns within its borders.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621316947" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621316947" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pandering]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Illegal Immigrants Held As Witnesses for Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102378.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102378.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Five men have been sitting in the Fairfax County jail for nearly a month now, although none is charged with a crime. Rather, they might have witnessed a killing. Some of them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Jackman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Illegal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Held]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Witnesses]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael D. Boone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael J. Lindner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Marum Roush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond F. Morrogh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lavonda Graham Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luis A. Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Trodden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Rappoport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abbe Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ernestine Fobbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jorge A. Moreno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juan de Dios Morales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penney J. Azcarate]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Pickett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ After Va.'s Losses In Court, a Flurry Of Finger-Pointing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903712.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903712.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Supreme Court's rejection of an anti-spam law is the state's latest high-profile legal defeat, a string of losses that some lawyers see as coincidental but others say reflects the General Assembly's willingness to pass aggressive measures that are more likely to face a constitutional challenge. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.'s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Losses]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flurry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finger-Pointing]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Albo]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry W. Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Hickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy Jaynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert O'Neil]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Broaddus]]></category><category><![CDATA[William C. Mims]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tracking Marshall's Steps to the Supreme Court ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903440.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903440.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the University of Maryland's law school last night, they honored a man who was barred from admission and later sued the school to change the rule. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tracking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marshall's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steps]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry S. Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amherst]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre M. Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Gaines Murray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emerson Dorsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Bison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category><category><![CDATA[U-Md. School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U-Md. School of Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lester E. Andrews; School Official Faced Va.'s Desegregation Chaos ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903816.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903816.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Lester E. Andrews, 93, the school board chairman of Prince Edward County, Va., who in 1959 tried to keep schools open in the face of the state's "massive resistance" to desegregation, died Sept. 16 at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg of complications from a stroke.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621318885" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421621318885" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Sullivan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lester]]></category><category><![CDATA[E.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrews;]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Official]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faced]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.'s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Desegregation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chaos]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Potomac Confidential ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/11/DI2008091102349.html?nav=rss_nation/special</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/11/DI2008091102349.html?nav=rss_nation/special</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live. This week he examines the Virginia U.S. Senate debate, the struggle over whether the District's homeless should have a place to stay in downtown Washington, and new accusations of overuse of SWAT teams in Prince George's County. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Potomac]]></category><category><![CDATA[Confidential]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Trail ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy