<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/sunday/outlook?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</link><description>Sunday Outlook</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 Forces That Set the Agenda]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11129-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11129-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In the grand scheme of things, Social Security isn't the nation's biggest fiscal problem. That's not my view. That's the assessment of Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Bush political appointee before he became head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, who says that looming financial calamities in Medicare and Medicaid are larger and more immediate worries in a strictly budgetary sense.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Nats Brought Me Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11130-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11130-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The oddest thing happened to me on Metro a few weeks ago. I had a conversation with a complete stranger.]]></description><author> Steve Hendrix</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Gallery of Might-Have-Beens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11131-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11131-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Pity John Bolton. As a rule of thumb, senators give the president the benefit of the doubt when he chooses people for the executive branch or his diplomatic team. Although the Constitution gives the Senate responsibility for reviewing and confirming presidential appointments (the famous "advise and consent" provision), nominees for executive branch jobs are rarely subjected to the sort of intense scrutiny Bolton has endured.]]></description><author> Sarah A. Binder</author></item></channel></rss>
