<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Marjorie Williams</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><description>Marjorie Williams</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[The Halloween  Of My Dreams]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21061-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21061-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I was the one who insisted on the body glitter. Normally, you understand, I am a mother who pulls her daughter's shirt down and tucks it into her waistband every morning to keep her from showing her navel to the whole third grade. I make her scrub the supposedly water-soluble unicorn tattoos off her cheeks before she goes to school. I court her wrath by refusing to buy the kids' fashions that seem designed to clothe tiny hookers.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Woman Who Knew Her Due]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39888-2004Apr24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39888-2004Apr24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I have a memory of Mary McGrory sweeping into The Post's  newsroom in a wide-brimmed black wool hat that brought to mind a bullfighter's gear. Her clothes were always a magical combination of the suitable and the attention-getting -- the finest soft wools and silks; capes, scarves, dramatic contrasts of red and white and black. It's possible, I must grudgingly admit, that my fancy added the dramatic hat. If so, it is only because it was so easy to see through Mary's great gentility to the heart of a buccaneer.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win One for the Flipper]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37038-2004Mar6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37038-2004Mar6.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I've been trying, really I have. As a charter member of the ABB Society -- Anybody But Bush -- I've tried not to fret over the alarmingly tautological nature of John Kerry's victory. He was inevitable because voters picked him to win because he had won over earlier voters and therefore must be a winner. I've tried not to worry over the fact that he has all the social bonhomie of one of Edith Wharton's ambivalent society stiffs. We know that some crucial part of the presidential electorate votes on impressions of likability, but I've assured myself that between now and November Kerry will warm up.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propriety Malfunction]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14295-2004Feb4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14295-2004Feb4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Let me get this straight. The federal government and a huge posse of editorial writers have got their knickers in a twist because Super Bowl watchers -- children, even! -- were exposed for a few seconds to the corrupting sight of Janet Jackson's right breast.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean's Loss Of Nerve]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64857-2004Jan30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64857-2004Jan30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Political history will probably say, in its determined shorthand, that Howard Dean lost his last chance at the Democratic nomination when he delivered his primal scream on the night of the Iowa caucuses. Footnotes will also record a series of impolitic remarks, little blunders, during his final weeks in the sun. But the truth is that Dean's campaign was doomed from the day in December when he won the endorsement of former vice president Al Gore.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Doctor Factor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43185-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43185-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   At long last, the revelation I've been waiting for: the reason why -- beyond the prospect of epic, McGovernesque defeat -- I feel so uneasy about Howard Dean.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minimizing Menopause]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12625-2002Nov19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12625-2002Nov19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's hardly the first time science has suffered some distortion on its way to the front page. But the past four months of reporting on the Perils of Prempro -- the findings of a major federal study of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT -- offer the most glaring recent example. Through a combination of misplaced delicacy and simple sexism, the mainstream media have done American women a serious disservice.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surrendering to Fear]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14318-2002Oct24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14318-2002Oct24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Now that two solid suspects are in custody for the killings that have dominated the region for the past three weeks, we may hope to recapture our everyday sense of safety. It is less obvious whether we can retrieve our dignity so fast.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Random Death Of Our Sense of Ease]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10070-2002Oct10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10070-2002Oct10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A cancer patient learns to see them coming, the ones who want to ask you (or tell you) just how you managed to give yourself this illness, and why you have failed so far to cure it. It is your toxic anger. It is what you eat, or fail to eat. It is your neglect of your third chakra, or your stubborn refusal to take coffee enemas. They would never be so foolish.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Working Mom's Comedy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30195-2002Oct1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30195-2002Oct1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you could buy stock in a book, I would stake all my savings on the success of Allison Pearson's new novel, "I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother." Here, at last, is the definitive social comedy of working motherhood. The interesting question is why it took a British writer to bring it to American bookstores.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the Real, Real Truth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35009-2001Dec12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35009-2001Dec12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Both my kids ask in the same week, with the faultless sensor for parental vulnerability that is bundled into every child's operating system. Alice, at 6, has probably found her curiosity on the playground; Willie, a scientist at 8, is hard at work on the dubious physics of reindeer travel. But in their separate ways, both pursue the matter with prosecutorial zeal: Mommy, isn't Santa really you?]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heart-Full Dodger]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15948-2001Jul3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15948-2001Jul3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[More than one observer of George W. Bush's developing political style has noticed his striking use of rhetoric that touches on matters of heart and soul. National Review Editor Rich Lowry, writing in last Sunday's Washington Post [Outlook], was only the latest to remark on the 43rd president's "essentially Clintonian" tendency to drag into various policy debates his assessments of others' good natures -- or his own.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mid-Twenties Malaise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49340-2001Jun26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49340-2001Jun26.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even Katie Couric had a hard time keeping a straight face when her producers sat her down with Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner, the young explicators of the latest generational crisis to hit bookstore shelves. Here's a trend almost too good to be true -- one so earnest, so weightless, as to verge on self-parody. Introducing . . . the "quarterlife crisis," the formless angst that haunts would-be achievers in their twenties.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Do They Lie?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21430-2001Jun19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21430-2001Jun19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[He was a good friend amid the early miseries of college life, though he had that willed eccentricity in which smart, awkward freshmen sometimes armor themselves. I got to know him by typing his papers, 75 cents a page. He introduced me to olives stuffed with almonds, and to chilled vodka. He had a precious single room and a bathtub, where I took long, soaking refuge from my mob of roommates while he chatted to me from the other side of the door.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reno's Run]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58318-2001Jun12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58318-2001Jun12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You might expect the leaders of a state political party to be overjoyed at the advent of a high-profile candidate to take on a popular incumbent governor -- a challenger with deep roots in the state, great name recognition, undoubted fundraising prowess and a grand streak of obstinate courage.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spinning the Jenna Story]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26536-2001Jun5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26536-2001Jun5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I, for one, really liked Jenna's choice of pink Capri pants and a toe ring for her May 16 court appearance concerning her first underage-drinking rap. If you're going to get your life dragged through the spin cycle of pundits, political enemies, rent-a-shrinks and public scolds, it may be the better part of valor to wear your Bad Girl rags with pride.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Or Jeffords's Principles?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A94368-2001May29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A94368-2001May29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The debate over who lost Jim Jeffords shows with wonderful starkness the chasm between what regular people think politics is about and what Washington thinks politics is about. Regular people make the mistake of thinking politics is about substance; here in the capital, we know that process is everything.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mean, Mean Moms]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31192-2001May15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31192-2001May15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bring out your gas-masks, girls: You wouldn't want to get near this thing without taking precautions. I speak of this week's Mother's Day stink bomb on the cover of the conservative National Review, penned by editor Rich Lowry: "Thanks, Mom! The Case Against Working Mothers." Inside, the piece is headlined "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Children in day care -- and the mothers who put them there."]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Painful  Playground]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1052-2001May8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1052-2001May8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Now it can be told. Two years after the killings at Columbine High School, two months after the murders at Santana High School, concerned school administrators and cutting-edge gym teachers are at last cracking down on one of the menaces that prey on the psyches of America's young.]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy Amnesia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30499-2001May1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30499-2001May1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/williamsmarjorie</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["To speak exclusively of conservation," Dick Cheney said on Monday, "is to duck the tough issues" involved in addressing America's burgeoning energy crisis. "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis -- all by itself -- for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."]]></description><author> Marjorie Williams</author></item></channel></rss>