<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Inside the A Section</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/asection?nav=rss_print/asection</link><description>Inside the A Section</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[COAST TO COAST]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12547-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12547-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Illinois Lawmakers Aim to Get Students to Take a Load Off <br>Illinois students need to lighten up.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Southwest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12548-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12548-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ariz. Police Consider Primate Protege <br> Picture this SWAT team scenario: It's Day Two of a hostage crisis. The suspect hasn't made contact with authorities for hours. Police have no idea if he's awake, if his hostages are injured, or what kind of weapons he's carrying. How do they know what to do next?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CORRECTION]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12546-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12546-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An April 23 article on Vice President Cheney's statement that he would vote to break a tie to change Senate rules concerning filibusters of judicial nominees inaccurately stated it was the first time the White House has explicitly outlined the role it is willing to play. Cheney made similar comments in an interview published April 16 in the Baltimore Sun.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enrollment in ROTC Down 16 Percent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12418-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12418-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nationwide enrollment has slipped over the past two years, leaving the program, which commissions more than six of every 10 new Army officers each year, with its fewest participants in nearly a decade.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Loan Proposed to Rescue Alaska Power Plant]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Years ago, the federal government spent $117 million on an experimental "clean coal" power plant in Alaska designed to generate electricity with a minimum of air pollution  --  but the project never got up and running.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panel to Start Writing Social Security Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12498-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12498-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Five months after President Bush launched his drive to overhaul Social Security, the difficult, if not impossible, task of drafting legislation begins Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee holds the first hearing on options to secure Social Security's future.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNC Is Told Where to Move Into Bush Bloc]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12440-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12440-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee has been studying the electorate, and the party's problem with voters of faith is both worse and better than he feared.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Talk Shows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12393-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12393-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  <em>Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12545-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12545-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Law Firm in Vioxx Case Backed Judge in Race <br>    MONTGOMERY, Ala.  --   The judge handling the first wrongful death trial over the pain reliever Vioxx received $60,000 in campaign contributions last year from political action committees funded by the law firm that filed the lawsuit.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[MCI Calls Qwest's Bid 'Superior' to Verizon's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11647-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11647-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MCI Inc.'s board of directors embraced a cash-rich offer from Qwest Communications International Inc. after months of saying the company was a financially weaker and strategically less desirable merger partner than Verizon Communications Inc.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Yuki Noguchi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Tells Journalists to Search for 'Truth']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI presented a smiling papacy to the world's news media Saturday while, in the background, the Vatican's battle over same-sex marriage legislation in Spain presented the pontiff with an early test of his moral authority.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Area Catholics Reflect on New Leader]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12351-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12351-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The newly elected prince of the church was foremost in the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of area Catholics.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer  and Maureen Fan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Chief's Record  Comes Under Fire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12395-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12395-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS  --  In eight years as U.N. secretary general, Kofi Annan has come as close to superstardom as a diplomat can get  --  lauded on the cover of Time, sharing the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the organization he leads and becoming known as the "secular pope" for his advocacy for peace and the poor.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koizumi, Hu Meet to Address Tensions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12397-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12397-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23  --  Chinese President Hu Jintao urged Japan to translate its remorse over wartime atrocities into "actual action" during a much-anticipated meeting here Saturday that both sides said they hoped would ease dangerously heightened tensions between the two countries.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Self-Styled Class Warrior Has Major Battle at Hand in Mexico]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12651-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12651-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TUCTA, Mexico  --  Until 1977, this village in sweltering Tabasco state was a patch of misery surrounded by a swamp. Families lived in thatched huts, with no roads, electricity or relief from swarms of mosquitoes carrying malaria.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islamic Activists Sweep Saudi Council Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12398-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12398-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, April 23  --  Saudi Arabia's limited 10-week experiment with electoral democracy ended here Saturday in a sweeping victory for slates of Islamic activists marketed as the "Golden List," who used grass-roots organizing, digital technology and endorsements from popular religious leaders to defeat their liberal and tribal rivals, even here in Jiddah, for decades Saudi Arabia's most diverse and business-driven city.]]></description><author> Steve Coll</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a Jail in Cuba Beat the Heart of a Poet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PESHAWAR, Pakistan  --  Among the old leather volumes in the library of Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is a black plastic binder full of rumpled  letters he wrote, sent from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenmann</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights Groups Reject Prison Abuse Findings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12400-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12400-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Human rights groups  expressed dismay yesterday over the Army's findings exonerating U.S. generals of prisoner abuse in Iraq, and renewed requests for an independent probe to examine the culpability of senior military and civilian defense officials.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi Tips Lead to Arrest of 6 in Helicopter Downing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12401-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12401-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/asection</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:00:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, April 23  --  Assisted by tips from Iraqi civilians, U.S. soldiers on Saturday arrested six men suspected of shooting down a civilian helicopter carrying 11 people, including six American security contractors, U.S. military officials said.]]></description><author> Caryle Murphy</author></item></channel></rss>