<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Ellen Goodman</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/goodmanellen?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><description>Ellen Goodman</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[Dispensing Morality]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38702-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38702-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON  --  To begin with, I don't believe that anyone should be compelled to do work he or she regards as unethical. History is full of heroes who rebelliously followed their consciences. It's also full of people who shamefully followed orders.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oscar For  Dialogue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54790-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54790-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Is it too late to create an Oscar for the Most Politically Controversial Film? It would be awfully handy to have a designated category for controversy so the rest of us could concentrate on what everyone's wearing.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The High Court's Unhealthy Secrecy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57868-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57868-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- I can only imagine what William Rehnquist thinks of all this. When he first became chief justice, a reporter asked about updates on the health of the justices. He shot back: "You people can be like a bunch of vultures." Does Rehnquist see vultures circling over his black robe? His spokesman says he won't be in court for the new session on Monday. Will he swear in the president on Jan. 20, as he has promised?]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Her Voice Ever Be Heard?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56424-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56424-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- Ever wonder what happened to the State Department's chief of propaganda? The head of public diplomacy was supposed to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim street.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Poor College Conservatives]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34009-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34009-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- I like the old maxim that academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small. How else to explain the intramural conflicts that erupt over such searing campus issues as tenure and parking?]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Truths of 'Desperate Housewives']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64033-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64033-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- I'm not supposed to like "Desperate Housewives." It's either post-feminist or pre-feminist. It's too racy or too retro. It's either an example of the backlash or a product of the cultural collapse.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex Ed Silliness in Texas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46799-2004Nov12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46799-2004Nov12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON -- Here it is, just days after the red states gave their presidential seal of approval to the man from Texas, and we've already been treated to another skirmish in the culture wars. The Texas Board of Education has now given its educational seal of approval to what may soon be dubbed Red Sex Ed.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning Back  Values Voters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29473-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29473-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON -- I got familiar with the losing business rather early in life. When I was just a kid my dad ran for Congress. He lost by about 600 votes, although I suspect that over the years, that number has been chipped away by family lore.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Post-Bush Mind-Set]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10797-2004Oct29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10797-2004Oct29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- While we are still in a pre-Nov. 2 mind-set, may I offer my last few words on the "pre-Sept. 11 mind-set"?]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions for the 'Comforter in Chief']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18867-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18867-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- How could I have forgotten that George W. was a compassionate conservative? He chose the moniker of a kinder, gentler Republican four years ago to distinguish himself from Newt Gingrich's crowd. Newt's idea of compassion was building a chain of orphanages.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Exactly Are We Safer?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48883-2004Sep24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48883-2004Sep24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- Sometimes I wonder what it must be like when the presidential son comes to Kennebunkport for a visit. Does George the Younger tell George the Elder what he tells the country? Does he say that we are safer with Saddam Hussein in prison than in power? Does he insist that we are better off having overthrown the dictator rather than having contained him?]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The GrannyVoters, Getting Out the Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13001-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13001-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON -- Maybe it's because I spent the summer on alternating currents, switching back and forth from party politics to grandchildren. The Democratic convention was followed by a visit from my grandson. The Republicans were followed by my granddaughter.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Left Doesn't Need a Limbaugh]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24756-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24756-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- Maybe it was because the man on my left was doing a play-by-play when any member of the Bush team came on the screen. Maybe it was because the movie theater was within pitching range of Fenway Park.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Forty-Year Search for Equality]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6963-2004Jun25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6963-2004Jun25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- And now for a small story from the Latter-Day Annals of Working Womanhood.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Child Indivisible]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53682-2004Jun18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53682-2004Jun18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- I confess that I was a teensy bit relieved when the Supreme Court found a way to avoid ruling on the underlying issue of the Pledge of Allegiance case. Having pledged before and after the "under God" clause was added, I didn't think those two words were any big deal. But I did suspect they were unconstitutional.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revisiting the Good War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46716-2004May21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46716-2004May21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- In a few days we'll go back to the good war. Just for a visit. We'll rerun the tape of World War II with respect, gratitude and, maybe, nostalgia.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro-Choice, Pro-Terrorist?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58094-2004Apr30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58094-2004Apr30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- Is it possible that Karen Hughes is getting a little rusty?]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfriendly Fires in the Gender Wars]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A562-2004Apr9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A562-2004Apr9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BOSTON -- Maybe he was right to compare sexual assaults in the military to "friendly fire." Last week, an advocate for victims, Scott Berkowitz, told a panel of investigating congresswomen that "while these friendly fire attacks leave no trail of blood, they leave many damaged souls in their wake." No doubt about it.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eroding the Rights of Pregnant Women]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28371-2004Mar26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28371-2004Mar26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON -- Melissa Ann Rowland's life is not a pretty picture. Even her supporters will tell you that.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showtime for Kerry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35073-2004Mar5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35073-2004Mar5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/goodmanellen</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:27:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SARASOTA, Fla. -- If a celebrity is someone who is famous for being famous, what do you call a politician who is elected for being electable? John Kerry?]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item></channel></rss>
