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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: Jonathan Yardley on Margaret MacMillan's "Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History"]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Exiles in the Garden' by Ward Just]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading: H.L. Mencken's 'Newspaper Days']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113437613" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113437613" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Dillinger's Wild Ride' by Elliott J. Gorn]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow' by Donald McRae]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE LAST TRIALS OF CLARENCE DARROW <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Driving Like Crazy' by P.J. O'Rourke]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'American Passage' by Vincent J. Cannato]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'American Heroes' by Edmund S. Morgan]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ AMERICAN HEROES <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Brooklyn' by Colm Toibin]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BROOKLYN ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez' by Gerald Martin]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'The Walking People' by Mary Beth Keane]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE WALKING PEOPLE<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113439160" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113439160" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Cleopatra and Antony' by Diana Preston]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'The World in Half,' by Cristina Henriquez]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading: A Look at Unheralded Author William Humphrey]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Closing Time' by Joe Queenan]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CLOSING TIME<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113439836" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113439836" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Review by Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'One Nation Under Dog' by Michael Schaffer]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ONE NATION UNDER DOG ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'The Fifth Season: Tales of My LIfe in Baseball' by Donald Honig]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE FIFTH SEASON ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Natural Elements' by Richard Mason]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NATURAL ELEMENTS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading: "Never Love a Stranger" by Harold Robbins]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113440246" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113440246" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us' by Emily Yellin]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ YOUR CALL IS (NOT THAT) IMPORTANT TO US ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley Reviews 'The Proud Tower,' by Barbara Tuchman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review: 'Wedlock' by Wendy Moore]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WEDLOCK ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading: 'The Young Lions' by Irwin Shaw]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113440709" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113440709" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Flannery' by Brad Gooch]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FLANNERY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Levittown' by David Kushner]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LEVITTOWN ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Try to Tell the Story']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TRY TO TELL THE STORY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Richard Wright's Autobiographical 'Black Boy' Still Holds Its Power]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Big Rich' by Bryan Burrough]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE BIG RICH ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on "Up From History"]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ UP FROM HISTORY ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Land of Marvels']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LAND OF MARVELS ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Second Reading of "About Three Bricks Shy of a Load" by Roy Blount Jr.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113442593" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113442593" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley Picks the Best Books of 2008]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In this tiny corner of the journalistic universe, the year now drawing to a close was quiet but, in hindsight, unusually satisfying. With the exception of Scott McClellan's What Happened, no huge bestsellers crossed my desk, and that book, while it served a useful purpose in giving the public an inside look at the machinations and pervasive cynicism of the Bush White House, is scarcely one for the ages. Nor, for that matter, are more than two or three of those to be mentioned herein, but each is worthy in its own way. Of the 49 books reviewed in this space during 2008, I commend 15 to you for enlightenment, entertainment and other pleasures. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Man Who Invented Christmas']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Sinatra in Hollywood']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SINATRA IN HOLLYWOOD ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rule, Britannia!]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE ANGLO FILES<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113443995" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113443995" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Rule,]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Sweet Land of Liberty']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Lost Art of Walking']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110602564.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE LOST ART OF WALKING ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Lincoln']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103003538.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LINCOLN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'In Search of Bill Clinton']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302735.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ IN SEARCH OF BILL CLINTON<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113444492" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113444492" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Clinton']]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Time's A Charmer: Dew's 'Dale']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102403480.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Time's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA['Dale']]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Some of It Was Fun']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603405.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SOME OF IT WAS FUN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Brass Verdict']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902498.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE BRASS VERDICT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Verdict']]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'A Most Wanted Man']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100202774.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A MOST WANTED MAN<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113445798" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113445798" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'American Lightning']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503693.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ AMERICAN LIGHTNING ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA['American]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lightning']]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Given Day']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE GIVEN DAY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thompson's Gonzo Trip Is Still Worth Taking]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903451.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Thompson's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Gonzo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Trip]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Is]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Still]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Worth]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Taking]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Obscene in the Extreme']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102265.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ OBSCENE IN THE EXTREME<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113446620" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113446620" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Polanski']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ POLANSKI ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[A 'Little Book' Bursting With The Write Ideas]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503728.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA['Little]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Book']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bursting]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[With]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Write]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Irregulars']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE IRREGULARS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082102393.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FOR THE THRILL OF IT<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113447259" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113447259" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Outlaw Journalist']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081402576.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ OUTLAW JOURNALIST ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Traffic']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TRAFFIC ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA['The Shooting Party': Isabel Colegate's Literary Mark]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603763.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['The]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Washington doyenne's son discovers he is illegitimate.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073102719.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MY THREE FATHERS<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113447779" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113447779" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Drink']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ DRINK ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'For the Love of Animals']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Now the Hell Will Start']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NOW THE HELL WILL START ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Valuable Lessons From 'The Rector of Justin']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802729.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113448145" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113448145" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Shining City']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SHINING CITY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel']]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062701752.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MR. GATLING'S TERRIBLE MARVEL ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'The Spies of Warsaw']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE SPIES OF WARSAW ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley on 'Sing Me Home']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SING ME BACK HOME<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113448457" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113448457" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE BEST GAME EVER ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Andrew Turnbull's Great Fitzgerald]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Andrew]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Culture of Deception]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:44:09 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WHAT HAPPENED ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Deception]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scott McClellan looks back on one of the most painful experiences of his life.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WHAT HAPPENED<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113448810" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113448810" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[looks]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203550.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LEISUREVILLE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Capital Stories]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ REFLECTIONS OF A WINE MERCHANT<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113449142" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113449142" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[In 'Cannery Row,' a Preserved Simplicity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703994.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA['Cannery]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Row,']]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WILLIE NELSON ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402749.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FRANKLIN & LUCY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703497.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113450204" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113450204" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA['My Young Years': Rubinstein's Enchanting Prelude]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003282.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ McMAFIA ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032702697.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE THIEF AT THE END OF THE WORLD<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113450734" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113450734" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003031.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE OUTCAST ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[William Styron's 'Darkness,' Dimmed by Age]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[William]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE PURPOSE OF THE PAST ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602877.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE MAN WHO MADE LISTS<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113451080" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113451080" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803430.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ AMALIA'S TALE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE DANCER AND THE THIEF ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BANANAS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ GUMBO TALES<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113451384" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113451384" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[It Was Time for Goodbye. Wasn't It?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Reggie, an 8-year-old dog whom I loved without reservation, went to his reward three weeks ago on our veterinarian's examining table. Reggie had been diagnosed in early November with congestive heart failure and had not responded to the various medications prescribed for him. His stomach had swollen to the size of a soccer ball; he was hemorrhaging internally and sooner or later would bleed to death. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CHARLATAN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE BLOODY SHIRT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113451747" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113451747" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOLDIERS GONE? ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PEOPLE OF THE BOOK ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[In a Time of Posturing, Didion Dared 'Slouching']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Ten books on my list this year, four fiction and six nonfiction. It's not surprising that all but one of the nonfiction selections have to do with American history, as my interest in the subject grows ever greater as I, well, grow ever older. It's probably a bit more surprising that three of the four novels are set in the Spanish-speaking world and that two of these are translated from the Spanish, but though these novels have made my list strictly on merit, I'll admit to having been drawn to them in the first place for personal as well as literary reasons: I now live part of the year in Peru and am trying (at my age, it's a battle) to learn Spanish.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113452117" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113452117" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A History That Stands The Test of Time]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Stands]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A SLAVE NO MORE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[JONATHAN]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The loudest, toughest, biggest star on Broadway.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ETHEL MERMAN<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113452479" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113452479" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[loudest,]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Laura Ingalls Wilder's Well-Insulated 'Little House']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Laura]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ AMERICAN CREATION ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[JONATHAN]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[YARDLEY]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE SECOND CIVIL WAR ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Roosevelt who married one politician and bore another's child.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ALICE<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113453007" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113453007" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOONE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA['I Was Dancing': A Novel That's Still Light on Its Feet]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is it a foolish infatuation or a great love story?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE BAD GIRL ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ONE DROP<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113453384" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113453384" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RUN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ DIARIES 1969-1979 ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BRAND NFL ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hoagy Carmichael's Memories, Straight From the Heartland]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201337.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113453696" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113453696" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Hoagy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carmichael's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Memories,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Straight]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[From]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Heartland]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[A novelist tells how she fared as a "premature anti-fascist" during World War II.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083001719.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LEARNING TO FLY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[novelist]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[tells]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[fared]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[as]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA["premature]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[anti-fascist"]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[during]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[II.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[A bad dream made real: nighttime in the city of New Orleans.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082301787.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[bad]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[dream]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[made]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[real:]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[nighttime]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[city]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Orleans.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602701.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SACCO & VANZETTI ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA['Morte d'Urban': Our Great Workplace Saga]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401706.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113454012" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113454012" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['Morte]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[d'Urban':]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Our]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Great]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Workplace]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Saga]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/09/AR2007080901726.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE HOUSE THE ROCKEFELLERS BUILT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080201474.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FEMME FATALE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The End of Bounty]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702380.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reviewd Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[End]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bounty]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072602026.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113455365" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113455365" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[When Chicago was a good town for men of bad character.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SIN IN THE SECOND CITY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[When]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[was]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[good]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[town]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[for]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[men]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[bad]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[character.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Extravagant Tale of Mr. Blandings' Dream House]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071702156.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Extravagant]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tale]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mr.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Blandings']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Dream]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Washington, D.C. almost fell to the Confederacy.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/12/AR2007071201918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ DESPERATE ENGAGEMENT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[How]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[almost]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[fell]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Confederacy.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070502150.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113455915" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113455915" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[JONATHAN]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[YARDLEY]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/28/AR2007062802133.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE HOUSE THAT GEORGE BUILT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062101978.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE LAST DAYS OF THE INCAS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA['Woman Warrior,'  A Memoir That  Shook the Genre]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['Woman]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Warrior,']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Shook]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061401750.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BAY OF SPIRITS<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113456189" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113456189" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/07/AR2007060701898.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ONE PERFECT DAY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lima Cuisine: You Don't Know What You're Missing]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060801119.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In recent years, Jorge Chavez International Airporthas been so spectacularly rejuvenated that it inadvertently reinforces an old cliche about the city it serves: Lima -- the City of Kings, the capital of Peru, home to 9 million people -- is merely a way station for travelers en route to Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Iquitos, Lake Titicaca and Peru's other celebrated attractions. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Lima]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cuisine:]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[You]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Don't]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Know]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[What]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[You're]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Missing]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053102540.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ON CHESIL BEACH ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[FDR]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052501894.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FDR<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113456669" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113456669" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FDR ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701932.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Survivors of 9/11 struggle to live in a changed world.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051100018.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FALLING MAN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Survivors]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[struggle]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[live]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[changed]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[world.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[James Thurber's Humorous Heart]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102377.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113457569" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113457569" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[James]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Thurber's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Humorous]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[An account of the time before there were world wars.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050301811.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE PERFECT SUMMER ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[An]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[account]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[world]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[wars.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700080.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAVAGE PEACE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902088.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE LOST WORLD OF JAMES SMITHSON ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Everything you wanted to know about Kingsley Amis, and more.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201968.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE LIFE OF KINGSLEY AMIS<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113458060" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113458060" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Everything]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[you]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[wanted]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[know]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[about]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kingsley]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Amis,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[and]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[more.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040502512.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ DRY MANHATTAN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Broadening The Western's Horizons]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040602223.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Broadening]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Western's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Horizons]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Following the national pastime in an era when every player had a nickname.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032902610.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE GASHOUSE GANG ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Following]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[national]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[pastime]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[an]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[era]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[had]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[nickname.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why are we so fascinated by the lives of others?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201670.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BIOGRAPHY<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113458370" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113458370" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Why]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[are]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[we]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[so]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[fascinated]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[by]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[lives]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[others?]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Growing up gay in the South in the 1960s.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031502580.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MISSISSIPPI SISSY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Growing]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[up]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[gay]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[South]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[1960s.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Howard Griffin Took Race All the Way to the Finish]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602173.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[John]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Howard]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Griffin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Took]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[All]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Way]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Finish]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030900078.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE ROYAL NONESUCH ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Exploring the roots of anti-Americanism among European elites.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030102148.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ UNCOUTH NATION<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113458748" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113458748" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Exploring]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[roots]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[anti-Americanism]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[among]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[European]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[elites.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[How the Irish claimed their place in the New World.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201545.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LOOKING FOR JIMMY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[How]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[claimed]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[their]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[place]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[World.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501564.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NADA ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jean Stafford,  Diamond in A Rough Life]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jean]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Stafford,]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Diamond]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802563.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113459473" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113459473" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020102409.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PISTOL ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502294.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LOST CITY RADIO ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011802082.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THOMAS HARDY ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011200168.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FAME JUNKIES<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113500049" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113500049" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010500087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SACRED GAMES ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA['Gatsby': The Greatest Of Them All]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100958.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['Gatsby':]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' Still Satisfies]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201712.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Ernest]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hemingway's]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113001805.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Three of the works of nonfiction that make my personal list of the year's best books, and one of the works of fiction, initially came to my attention because of a lifelong interest in race relations in the United States generally and in Southern history more specifically. These are matters about which I make no claims to virtue or moral purity, but they have been foremost in my mind ever since, as a boy of 9, I moved with my family from the Northeast to Southside Virginia. The sight of black convicts working in chain gangs by the roadside unnerved me, and so did the experience of being waited upon by black women who were older than my mother.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113502171" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113502171" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[In 'Theron Ware,' Realism Wears Well]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112601050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA['Theron]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ware,']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Realism]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE RACE BEAT ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601249.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BEYOND THE EPIC ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ INÉS OF MY SOUL<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113503993" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113503993" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A founding father insisted that the Constitution wasn't worth ratifying without a bill of rights.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ GEORGE MASON ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[rights.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CHARLES ADDAMS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ JOHNNY U ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[In the Beginning, Such a Happy Couplet]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113505216" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113505216" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Beginning,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Such]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Happy]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ANDREW CARNEGIE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501281.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE INNOCENT MAN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801404.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THIRTEEN MOONS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Man Who Brought Joy to Mudville]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092401124.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113505608" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113505608" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Man]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Who]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brought]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Joy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mudville]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Standard Bearer]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Standard]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bearer]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401226.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ I SHOULDN'T EVEN BE DOING THIS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701152.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ REDEMPTION ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101151.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FIRST LADY OF THE CONFEDERACY<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113508243" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113508243" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shining City, Tarnished Dreams]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ALL AUNT HAGAR'S CHILDREN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Shining]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[City,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tarnished]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shining City, Tarnished Dreams]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ALL AUNT HAGAR'S CHILDREN  ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Shining]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[City,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tarnished]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700962.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ I FEEL EARTHQUAKES MORE OFTEN THAN THEY HAPPEN<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113508845" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113508845" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Panting Prose]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ JEANS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Panting]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080300939.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ George Appo was a strange yet far from unappealing man. The son of a Chinese father and an Irish mother, he was "diminutive" and "slight." He had no education and was utterly out of place in polite society, yet in his way he was a success: "A pickpocket, confidence man, and opium addict, he lived off his criminal activities during his teenage years and much of his adult life. On successful nights during the 1870s and 1880s, he earned in excess of six hundred dollars pilfering the pockets of those around him, equivalent to the annual salary of a skilled manual laborer." Before finally going straight, he also made a bundle off a scam known as the "green goods game," which lured unsuspecting provincial rubes to New York, where they were swiftly and efficiently taken to the cleaners. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA['Fanny Hill' Still Giving Pleasure]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201950.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['Fanny]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hill']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Still]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The War at Home]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A DISORDER PECULIAR TO THE COUNTRY<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113509674" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113509674" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072700937.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Late in the evening of July 7, 1957, Count Basie and his orchestra took the stage to wrap up that year's Newport Jazz Festival. The all-black band was introduced by a tall, skinny, crew-cut white guy with a voice so plummy as to border on unintentional self-parody. I was there and remember it vividly, but anybody can hear it on the album "Basie at Newport," and to this day almost everybody is likely to agree that the contrast between the Manhattanite voice and the down-home Kansas City band is just about too exquisitely hilarious to be true. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[If I Had a Hammer]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072401084.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SHEETROCK &amp; SHELLAC ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[If]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[I]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Had]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hammer]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072000999.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ AND A BOTTLE OF RUM ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[Papuan Holiday]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071701300.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE NAKED TOURIST<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113511184" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113511184" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Papuan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071301020.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WHAT IT USED TO BE LIKE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chew on This]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001112.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ REAL FOOD ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Chew]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[on]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[This]]></category>
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		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070600957.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FEEDING THE MONSTER ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[Eudora Welty's Sylvan Spell]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070501758.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113511893" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113511893" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Eudora]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Welty's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sylvan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Spell]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Empire and the Son]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ OLD FILTH ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[and]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Son]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062901346.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE BYSTANDER ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Real Scoop]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR2006062601139.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ICE CREAM ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Real]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Scoop]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201096.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SEX COLLECTORS<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113512230" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113512230" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Suite Success]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001208.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WHEN THE ASTORS OWNED NEW YORK ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Suite]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061501427.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SEVEN FIRES ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Upper Classes]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ACADEMY X ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Upper]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Classes]]></category>
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		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801350.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SONS OF PROVIDENCE<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113512520" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113512520" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA['Mamie Stover': Blond Ambition]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001478.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['Mamie]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Stover':]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Blond]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ambition]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fighting Words]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201526.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ UNSPEAK ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Fighting]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Words]]></category>
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		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051801079.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LET ME FINISH ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cooke's Tour: Notes From WWII America]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051501784.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113512936" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113512936" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Cooke's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tour:]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[From]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101299.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BLUE STATE BLUES ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Young Lady Vanishes]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR2006050801612.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ DEPARTURE LOUNGE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Young]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lady]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vanishes]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ferber's 'Giant,' Cut Down to Size]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050701112.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Ferber's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA['Giant,']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cut]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Down]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Size]]></category>
		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050401617.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MAYFLOWER<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113513448" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113513448" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Man's Passion, Seen in the Cards]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/01/AR2006050101369.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ VULNERABLE IN HEARTS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Man's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Passion,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Seen]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cards]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042701958.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 1973 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[They'll Always Have Paris]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401532.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEWS OF PARIS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[They'll]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Always]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Have]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042001609.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113514106" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113514106" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yardley]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Chinese Culture Club]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701620.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF DESIRE ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Club]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stevenson's 'Treasure Island': Still Avast Delight]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/16/AR2006041601023.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Stevenson's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA['Treasure]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LITTLE MONEY STREET ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Home Team]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WEDDED TO THE GAME<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113515371" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113515371" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601658.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ AMONG THE DEAD CITIES ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Puff Piece]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/03/AR2006040301879.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE EASY WAY TO START SMOKING ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Puff]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001525.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Just about any adjective will do for William Weaks Morris, as a man and as a writer: bold, maddening, influential, self-destructive, charming, slippery, original, paradoxical, brilliant, childish, witty, accomplished and, of course, mercurial. That is the word Larry L. King uses in the subtitle of this portrait of his "old friend and mentor," and it is exactly the right one, for Morris was as mercurial as the most spectacular supernova. He soared into the heavens in 1967 as editor of Harper's magazine and author of a superb memoir, North Toward Home , then fell spectacularly to Earth in 1971 when he resigned from the position he loved so passionately. The remaining three decades of his life were mostly a struggle to regain what he had lost; he got only part of the way there. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[American Literature, Writ Large]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/29/AR2006032902528.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113517112" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113517112" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Heroines of the Jazz Age]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032701507.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ FLAPPER ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Heroines]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301420.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In certain precincts occupied by certain members of the American intelligentsia, it has for some time been quite the fashion to ferret out racists in one's familial woodpile and then to write books about them. The ostensible purpose of these books is to provide intimate, confessional evidence of the degree to which racial prejudice has infiltrated every conceivable corner of American life. Their obvious if unstated purpose is to show how the (white) author has triumphed over his or her sordid ancestral inheritance to become a person of impeccable credentials on matters racial. Though all due modesty and claims of imperfection are expressed, the reader is expected to stand and cheer as, at book's end, the author's heroic achievement is revealed in full. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sorted And Sort of . . .]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200537.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ We are two book people -- she, the editor of Book World; he, The Post's book critic -- who agree on many marital matters but almost totally disagree on the most important thing of all: how to arrange our books. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie Arana and Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Sorted]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Off the Market]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NOT BUYING IT<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113518081" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113518081" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Off]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Market]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031601646.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished and appealing American novelists of the postwar years. From The Natural (1952) to The Assistant (1957) to The Magic Barrel (1958) to A New Life (1961) to Dubin's Lives (1979) -- to mention only five of the more than a dozen books he published -- he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. Along with his contemporary Saul Bellow and the younger (by two decades) Philip Roth, he portrayed and interpreted the Jewish experience in America as something unique and discrete while at the same time he helped establish that experience as, ultimately, more American than Jewish. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Tar Heel Gives the Devils His Boo]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031301825.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TO HATE LIKE THIS IS TO BE HAPPY FOREVER ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Now in his early seventies, John McGahern was born and reared in rural Ireland. His family's circumstances were modest but not impoverished. His father, Frank, was a sergeant in the police, known as the Garda Force, and his mother, Sue, was a schoolteacher. The place in which their large family lived was primitive: "There was no running water then, other than in streams or rivers, no electricity, no TV, very few radios, and when newspapers were bought they were shared between houses. Each locality lived within its own small world." Escape was difficult, yet McGahern made it in the larger world. He became a teacher himself, then a writer of novels and stories to whom recognition came early. He lived in many places, but three decades ago, he returned with his new wife to settle down in a house surrounded by fields that "have hardly changed at all since I ran and played and worked in them as a boy." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Hornet's Nest]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SECOND HONEYMOON<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113519334" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113519334" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Toni Morrison: An Introduction]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030501186.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Toni]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Morrison:]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201486.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The golden city of Timbuktu, like the lost city of Atlantis, occupies a large place in the world's mythology, but resemblances pretty much end there. Atlantis was Plato's metaphor for the ideal society that began to deteriorate as idealism was corrupted by greed, and its disappearance into the sea was punishment for its sins; but even though people have sought for centuries to recover it (and some have claimed to have done so), Atlantis was almost certainly a figment of Plato's imagination -- a glorious myth and a powerful symbol, but nothing more. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Little People, Writ Large]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Big Boomer Theory]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE GREATER GENERATION<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113520578" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113520578" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Boomer]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902698.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ When John Gregory Dunne was in his early thirties, he had great sport at the expense of friends who were a bit older. As one by one they turned 35, he "found it amusing to send a two-word birthday telegram. The wire simply read, 'Halfway home.' " Then Dunne himself turned 35, and "the joke suddenly seemed pallid." He "became quite simply, for no real reason, terrified of dying." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two-Fisted Hero]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601153.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BARNEY ROSS ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Two-Fisted]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011201694.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ During the Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- the age of rapacious corporate bullies characterized by Theodore Roosevelt as "malefactors of great wealth" -- Milton S. Hershey was a man apart. The candy that he manufactured in idyllic, small-town Pennsylvania made him a millionaire many times over, he could be exceedingly tough in his dealings with competitors and employees, and he liked to live the high life during his frequent overseas jaunts. Yet he was a member of the "progressive crusade" that formed in reaction against the robber barons, and, as Michael D'Antonio puts it, he "had a strong sense of morality and responsibility" as well as firm convictions "about the purpose of wealth and the promise of American life." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[True South: Allen Tate's 'The Fathers']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113521139" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113521139" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Wacky Oregon Trail Mix]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A FOOL'S GOLD ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Divided Loyalties]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Divided Loyalties]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Footprint in Florida's Sand]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAVING SOUTH BEACH<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113522528" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113522528" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hornblower, Still Under Full Sail]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Getting Their Donder Up]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE WORST NOEL ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ On May 2, 1952, 7-year-old Martin Booth set sail from England with his mother and father on the month-long voyage to Hong Kong aboard a ship called the Corfu. His father, Ken, a civil servant in the Admiralty, was to assume a post there as "Deputy Naval Stores Officer," serving "upon a Royal Fleet Auxiliary naval supply ship plying between the British crown colony and the Japanese military dockyard of Sasebo." His mother, Joyce, who had worked as a telephone operator in Britain, was along for the ride, which turned out to be at once uncomfortably bumpy and unexpectedly exhilarating. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Son and the Fury]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ THE AMERICAN<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113523089" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113523089" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Readers of Book World who browse elsewhere in this massive newspaper are perhaps aware that I write an irregular column for the Style section called Second Reading, in which I reconsider "notable and/or neglected books from the past." To date, something on the order of 90 percent of the books discussed there have been works of fiction, and almost all of those are books that I admire or even love. By contrast, the "literary" fiction being written in this country nowadays strikes me as so jejune, self-absorbed and lifeless that I am just about unable to read it, much less pass fair judgment on it. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA['Look at Me': Words Torn From the Heart]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[JONATHAN YARDLEY]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Southern Exposures With Little Light]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WRITERS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley,]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ One of the oddities of conventional biography is that when the subject is a person of great influence and renown, his or her private life is scanted at best, ignored at worst. We know, for example, that Franklin D. Roosevelt's mother was overbearing and dominating and that he was unhappy in prep school and college, but these crucial aspects of youth usually are noted by his biographers and then passed over, so that the march of great events -- the Depression, the 1932 election, the New Deal, court-packing, World War II -- can be given full-dress treatment. Even the polio that Roosevelt suffered in 1921, when he was 39, goes little mentioned once its onset and treatment have been discussed and analyzed.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113523578" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2810113523578" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Yardley]]></dc:creator>
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