<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - William Raspberry</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><description>William Raspberry</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[Fox's Sandstorm]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61709-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61709-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The in-your-face right-wing partisanship that marks Fox News Channel's news broadcasts is having two dangerous effects.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show Blacks How to Fill Their Glasses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42692-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42692-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The National Urban League issued its annual State of Black America report last week, and you won't be surprised to learn that, once again, the league is worried about the gap in well-being between blacks and whites.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23878-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23878-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A friend was saying how remarkable it is that so many of us seem to have found the right mates  --  not paragons but people who possess the qualities that are important to us and who make our lives more complete.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose Life Are We Supporting?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5758-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5758-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   One of the ways we maintain our sense of personal superiority (and by implication, the superiority of our ideas) is to focus on the unseemly behavior of those who disagree with us.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Nuance That's Fit to Print]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52535-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52535-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Those behind the ideology-driven rush to privatize everything from prisons to Social Security, I said in a recent column, ought to slow down a bit and admit the obvious: Private isn't necessarily better.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Isn't Partisan?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32588-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32588-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Maybe it overstates the case to call the Federal Reserve chairman a "political hack," as Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) did, but Alan Greenspan does appear to be acting more as apologist for the Bush administration than as wise and independent elder  --  a far more valuable role.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Doesn't Mean Better]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12641-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12641-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Remember the gag about "the three biggest lies"? They were: "The check is in the mail," "<em>Of course</em>  I'll respect you in the morning" and -- the punch line -- "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seizing My Opportunity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58853-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58853-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Hers was such a simple request, Laura Stone must still be scratching her head at my response.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building Youth Achievement]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40695-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40695-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Hugh Price still bubbles like a little boy trying to tell you about his day at the circus, afraid some detail will get lost or that you won't quite appreciate the significance of what he's witnessed.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's  Dying Ritual]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21979-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21979-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Maybe Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about something that's been on my mind for a while: the alarming decline of courtship.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Test of Faith on Social Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3602-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3602-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The old country preacher was out hunting one day when he wandered too near a steep cliff, stumbled over a stone and fell headlong over the edge.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cutting Out the Poor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50122-2005Jan30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50122-2005Jan30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I've lived long enough to understand that the differences among Americans are often greatly exaggerated -- that deep down we are a lot more alike than we are different.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion Vs. Unity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31596-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31596-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   President Bush's second inaugural address was a resounding and well-crafted call for unity among the American people. Maybe inaugural addresses have to call for unity and healing and rhetorical restraint.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Reach Black America]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14731-2005Jan16.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14731-2005Jan16.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 book, "Stride Toward Freedom," says something that badly needs saying as we celebrate his birthday nearly five decades later:]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happened in Ohio]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61930-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61930-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   I don't usually let other people do my thinking for me, but I confess I'd been waiting for Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to tell me what to think about the voting irregularities that marred the November elections in Ohio.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Way Out of Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43489-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43489-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Is it time for America to leave Iraq?<br> It's not a rhetorical question, but one that goes deeply into our notions of who we are and how we wish to be seen -- militarily, diplomatically, politically and morally.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occupation Hazards]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28092-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28092-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Some say we all have a purpose on this Earth. Maybe it is Yaron Brook's purpose to remind us that as badly as the American venture in Iraq is going, it could be a lot worse.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Sense for the Holidays]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12535-2004Dec19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12535-2004Dec19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   David O'Hara was writing in response to a recent column in which I -- inexplicably -- referred to C.S. Lewis as a "cleric." However,  he didn't write to complain about my embarrassing error but rather my suggestion that Lewis's notion of a two-tier marriage -- civic and sacramental -- might shed some light on the debate over same-sex marriage.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage Rites and Wrongs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60180-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60180-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   C.S. Lewis, the British essayist, author and cleric, died 41 years ago, so he wasn't writing about same-sex marriage in America. No, his subject in his book "Mere Christianity" was divorce. Still, his observations may shed some light on  our  "values" controversy today.]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rage in the Courtroom]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38382-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38382-2004Dec5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/raspberrywilliam</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The first Mother's Day, I laid on the floor and cried most of the day," the sobbing mother of Laci Peterson said last week. "She wanted to be a mother."]]></description><author> William Raspberry</author></item></channel></rss>
