<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Mississippi</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ms?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><description>Mississippi</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Filibuster Vote Will Be Hard to Predict]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21660-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21660-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As few as two or three uncommitted GOP senators have left Democrats and Republicans uncertain who might prevail in an eventual showdown in the battle over judicial filibusters, sources in both parties said yesterday.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Takes Risk With Show of Support for DeLay]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18665-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18665-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush is doing for Tom DeLay what he refused to do for Trent Lott three years ago: taking a political risk to defend an embattled congressional leader's career, several Republican officials and strategists said.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signs of  Understanding]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16269-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16269-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the play "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" now showing at Ford's Theatre, the irascible literary hero's float down the Mississippi isn't the only adventure depicted on stage. Nor is the subject of race in the time of slavery the only barrier explored.]]></description><author> Suz Redfearn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Football Players Warm to New Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The seniors on a Fairfax County high school football team got a glimpse yesterday of their cameo appearance in a soon-to-be-released television  film, but their thoughts were not of stardom or the silver screen. These players were dreaming about saving the nation's wetlands.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONTRACTS AWARDED]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61610-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61610-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    McNeil Technologies Inc.  of Springfield won a $3.8 million Energy Department contract to support the department's Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution. The office conducts research and development on transmission and distribution system materials, controls, and technologies.]]></description><author> Judith Mbuya</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executives Take a Turn As Pr. George's Principals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55089-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55089-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fifteen minutes before classes began yesterday, businessman Al Porter reported for duty as the honorary principal of DuVal High School in Lanham. Thomas Anderson, the real principal, whisked him into a closed-door meeting to hear a mother's concerns about her son's low grades.]]></description><author> Nick Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sen. Lott Refurbishes Image, Power Base]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51374-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51374-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ousted Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who fell so spectacularly from grace, remains determined to claw his way back to power in Washington.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spending Bill for Military Is Ripe for the Stuffing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42419-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42419-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate this week takes up emergency spending legislation to keep military funds flowing to Iraq and Afghanistan. It is certain to end up on President Bush's desk, and that's why lawmakers will try to tack on their own pressing provisions.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges Sharpen Focus On Freshmen]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26230-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26230-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Institutions are finding that a shift in education policy may lead to early academic success and also boost student retention rates.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Life's Lessons From Its Great Teachers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21943-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21943-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I don't know if this is exactly what I'm going to tell the college journalism students in The Washington Post Semester seminar. By the time you read this, I already will have addressed their Friday noontime meeting; and I have a way of changing themes, or abandoning them completely before a speech. But this is what I'm thinking at the moment:]]></description><author> Warren Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Outmaneuvers Senator on Base Closings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22106-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22106-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bush used his recess-appointment power to thwart an effort by Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to stall the work of a military base-closing commission.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short Novels]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63170-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63170-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rivers of Memory <br>   My Jim  (Crown, $19.95) is Nancy Rawles's answer to <em>Huckleberry Finn</em>. Where Mark Twain celebrates Huck's voice, Rawles celebrates the voice of Sadie Watson, the woman who was left behind in slavery when her husband, Jim, escaped down the Mississippi with Huck.]]></description><author> Renee Bergland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling Interests  Funded DeLay Trip]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28252-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28252-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gambling groups covered most of the cost of a $70,000 trip in 2000, two months before DeLay helped kill legislation opposed by the groups.]]></description><author> James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Constituents Caught In Battle Over Subsidies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15353-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15353-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Bush administration proposal that would cut billions in subsidies to big cotton growers has set off a battle in Republican congressional ranks that pits budget cutters and against traditional agricultural interests.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury Deliberations Begin in Ebbers Trial]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8572-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8572-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal jury of seven women and five men this morning began debating the fate of former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post </B></FONT>]]></description><author> Brooke A. Masters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflicting Portraits of Ebbers Drawn at Trial]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64357-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64357-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Over the past five weeks, jurors have been shown two radically different faces of the entrepreneur who built WorldCom from an obscure Mississippi phone service reseller to the nation's second-largest long-distance firm.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><br><B>- The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Brooke A. Masters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histrionics And History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24713-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24713-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gee-whiz theme-park technology meets serious history at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum.]]></description><author> Bob Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 Doors Down's Southern Rock Gets a Metal Edge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9461-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9461-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After two multi-platinum albums and six No. 1 singles, ranging from the bouncy singalong "Kryptonite" to the melancholy ballad "Here Without You," 3 Doors Down had become Top 40's preeminent southern rock band. So when the small-town Mississippi group packed up vocalist Brad Arnold's warm drawl and penchant for covering Lynryd Skynyrd's "That Smell" in concert and relocated to Nashville to record its new album, it could have been a sign that it might turn up the twang even further.]]></description><author> Catherine P. Lewis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civil Rights Activists Reunite at Memorial]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1761-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1761-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Conversations about southern summers, dangerous nights and youthful dreams of changing the world were a clear sign that a reunion was underway. There were playful pats at tummies that have added a few inches, updates about children who've grown into adults and bearhugs meant to make up for those missing years.]]></description><author> Robert E. Pierre</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suing for the Uninsured]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45531-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45531-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 1:07:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Since last spring, a phalanx of trial lawyers who made millions suing asbestos makers and tobacco companies have been targeting tax-exempt hospitals, accusing them of gouging the poor.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item></channel></rss>