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         <title><![CDATA[Former Maryland Sen. Brewster Dies]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Daniel Baugh Brewster, a former Representative and Senator from Maryland who was also a World War II veteran and co-sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, died of liver cancer on Aug. 19 at his home in Owings Mills. He was 83. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Project Brings Historical Photos to MPD Stations]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In an effort to promote its 146-year history and instill pride among officers, the Metropolitan Police Department will display old police photos at its stations across Washington, D.C. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Taxes Make Hill a Tough Sell for Stores]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Behind the counter at her Capitol Hill bookstore, Roberta Blanchard rules over a small collection of imagination. Tales of fairies, witches, heroes and magic fill several shelves, while even more burst out of boxes. Give Blanchard a child’s age, and she can pull out the perfect adventure from the pile.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Market Moves to New Home]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Eastern Market merchants restarted their businesses in a temporary building on Aug. 25, leaving behind four months of uncertainty after an April 30 fire gutted the market’s South Hall. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Beyond the Bill of Rights]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[When you hear the National Archives mentioned, original copies of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence probably come to mind. And the 2004 film “National Treasure,” in which Nicolas Cage’s character tries to steal that copy of the Declaration, only feeds into the association.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Speight Goes to Washington]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[During 1990s, the city of Henderson, Nev., was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation. Its population burgeoned by more than 225 percent, to about 265,000, due to the influx of people wanting to move to the Southwest and the expansion of the gaming industry in Las Vegas. During it all, Phil Speight was Henderson’s city manager. And then Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.) called and asked Speight to become his chief of staff.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Long Goodbye]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner walks to shake hands with supporters last week at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville after announcing that he will not seek re-election in 2008.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Having a Ball on the Field]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Herman “Germany” Schaefer sees what it’s like on the other side of the camera during a Washington Senators game against the New York Highlanders in April 1911. Schaefer, known for his on-field antics, played much of his career with the Senators. In 1917, following the U.S. declaration of war on Germany, he changed his nickname to “Liberty” Schaefer, according to baseball-reference.com.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matchbox Headed to the Hill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Looking to duplicate their wildly successful Chinatown pizza joint, the owners of Matchbox will open a second restaurant at 521 Eighth St. SE in a former vending warehouse. “We like to always be a neighborhood location,” said co-owner Drew Kim, who happens to live on Capitol Hill. “With the new baseball stadium coming, we knew we wanted to be over there,” he added.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[‘The Wiz’ Opens New Season at the Atlas]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Atlas Performing Arts Center’s second full season opens tonight at 8 p.m. with “The Wiz,” a rendition of the 1975 Broadway musical based on “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. The performance is presented by Expansion Dance Project.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[With New ‘Oz’ in Place, ‘Operation Spy’ Opens Today]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The slated June 1 opening for the International Spy Museum “Operation Spy” experience was pushed back to today — and Anna Slafer, director of exhibitions and programs at the museum, says Oz is to blame.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Raising the Happy Hour Bar]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The new Capitol Hill happy hour at which to be seen has finally arrived, and it’s in a space usually reserved for private parties of the large-dollar kind.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pounding the Pavement]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lost and Found may have taken a break in August, but the construction around Capitol Hill kept on going. Above, a construction worker uses a jackhammer to chip away concrete around bollards, a familiar feature for federal buildings (hint, hint). Can you identify where this construction is taking place? Check back next week for the answer.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[‘Almanac’ Compiles Memorable Scandals]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[You didn’t need to be passionate about Sen. Larry Craig’s work on public land issues to be captivated by the Idaho Republican’s sex sting arrest controversy over the past few weeks.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Inside al-Qaida]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A new book of never-before-translated documents and press statements by al-Qaida leaders offers new insight into the motives behind the group responsible for carrying out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Time to Cool Down]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A jogger takes a break from her run to let her dog play in the sprinklers in Upper Senate Park on Thursday, as warm weather and high humidity reminded Washingtonians that summer isn’t over just yet. Milder temperatures are in the forecast for the rest of this week.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Events Mark Congressional Cemetery’s 200th Anniversary]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[It was only a decade ago that Historic Congressional Cemetery was on a list of 11 endangered national historic sites, but this weekend the cemetery will show how far it has come as it marks its 200th anniversary on Sunday. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lawyers Take the Lead]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[On the Web site for the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, David Cavicke is characterized as “a balding former thirty-something with a good sense of humor.”]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Carriage House Plans Unclear]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After many meetings and lengthy debate, the Old Naval Hospital Foundation has been awarded the rights to develop the dilapidated hospital on Capitol Hill into a community center that will feature a cafe and conference center, though it has not yet been determined what will happen to the drug rehabilitation center currently leasing office space on the property.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library Receives Rare New Orleans Recordings]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[More than 7,000 hours of one-of-a-kind recordings derived from various music festivals, nightclubs and street events in New Orleans have been given to the Library of Congress.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Family-Friendly Arts on Foot Festival Is Saturday]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As the deciduous trees shed their leaves, the days begin to get shorter and cooler and the nights start to get longer, the feeling sets in that summer is now over and the fall season is ready to begin. To kickoff the start of the fall arts season, Arts on Foot, will take place Saturday. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Neighbors Decry Nats Parking Plan]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As they prepare for the relocation of the Washington Nationals to Southeast D.C. next season, Capitol Hill residents balked Tuesday night at a preliminary D.C. Department of Transportation plan that would ban everyone but Ward 6 residents from parking in the area just north of the Southeast freeway during baseball games.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shorts Get Their 15 Minutes]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[From gun control, immigration and political canvassing to the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the DC Shorts Film Festival will reel out an array of political and current-event-based short films starting today.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chamber’s First Physicist]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Michigan Rep. Vernon Ehlers was a physics professor in his life before Congress. In this 1960 photo, the future Congressman, at just 26 years old, stands in front of a blackboard at the University of California at Berkeley for his faculty photo. Ehlers earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Berkeley and taught there and later at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., which is now part of his 3rd Congressional district. According to Ehlers’ biography, the eight-term Republican was the first research physicist elected to Congress.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Capitol Tour Helps Mark Constitution Day]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In an effort to honor the oldest federal constitution in existence, Congress passed a bill in 2003 designating Sept. 17 as Constitution Day. In honor of the occasion, the Education and Scholarship Department of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society will hold a two-hour walking tour of the exterior of one of the world’s most recognizable buildings, the U.S. Capitol, on Monday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The People’s Constitution]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s 2:30 p.m. appointment didn’t garner much media attention on Sept. 10, a day when reporters and protesters alike swarmed to the House side of the Capitol for the testimony of U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. With a solemn portrait of George Washington behind him and 17 ninth-graders from Rockville, Md.’s Wootton High School in front of him, the Nevada Democrat held forth on the Great Compromise and the separation of powers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Trover Card Shop to Be Folded Into Bookstore]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Trover Card Shop on Capitol Hill will not reopen after sustaining damage from a fire that closed the store for several weeks; instead the card shop will be combined with the nearby Trover Store.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_27/hilltalk/19998-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Making Brown-Waite’s Office Better Than Ever]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The drawer wouldn’t budge. Justin Grabelle pulled and jiggled, but the sliding mechanism held fast, leaving the contents inside painfully inaccessible. He felt around the edges of the reception desk where the drawer was located. Lo! A button! Thinking it was the release mechanism for the drawer, Grabelle pushed hard.Nothing happened.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Saluting Employers Behind the Troops  ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Dan and Mike Augustine, owners of Augustine and Sons Inc., grow crops and raise cattle in the small town of Rose Hill, Iowa. They have only two employees.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Under the Trestle]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[You want crumbling infrastructure? Plenty of that on display in Washington, D.C. — and some of it just blocks away from the Capitol. See above for a prime example. Not exactly something for our nation’s — or our city’s — leaders to be proud of. Nevertheless, there it is. Where? That’s for you to figure out. Check back next week for the answer.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_27/lost/20002-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Getting to Know ‘Rodrigo’]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As federal prosecutor in Baltimore, Ron Liebman saw cases argued by “unpolished” lawyers for “low-level crooks” — a far cry from the cases he typically deals with now at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C. But one of the cases he took on while at Patton Boggs landed him in ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_28/hill_bookshelf/20020-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Author Refines, Revises ‘Republic.com’]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[“1984.” “Brave New World.” “Fahrenheit 451.”Cass Sunstein thinks the scenarios that these novels portray are going to be more of a reality if features such as the personalized shopping selections on Amazon.com, the movie suggestion feature on Netflix and personalized electronic editions of certain news sources become the way everyone buys products, chooses movies and reads news.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_28/hill_bookshelf/20022-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[What a Beautiful Morning]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Only a few birds were around to enjoy a majestic sunrise on Capitol Hill on Monday. The feathered friends are shown taking a morning swim in the Reflecting Pool on the Capitol’s West Front.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_29/photo/20045-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[International Focus Continues]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) was a staffer with theInternational Relations Committee when he and his boss, then-Chairman Ben Gilman (R-N.Y.), were waiting one day to discuss Okinawa military base reauthorization with Japanese government officials. Gilman, a decorated military pilot during World War II, had flown 35 missions over Japan during the war.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_29/life/20046-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Building Broun’s Office]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), who won a tight election against former state Sen. Jim Whitehead (R) to fill the vacancy left by the death of Rep. Charlie Norwood (R) in February, has filled his office with eight new staffers.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_29/climbers/20047-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Market Lunch Resumes Business in East Hall]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Capitol Hill’s Eastern Market crossed another hurdle last week as Market Lunch re-opened, leaving only one business still closed after a fire struck the historic market in April.  ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_29/hilltalk/20048-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Party]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In 1994, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby changed his affiliation from Democrat to Republican. In this November 1994 photo, Shelby (center) celebrates his defection with then-Sens. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and Phil Gramm (R-Texas). Gramm switched to the Grand Old Party in 1983.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_30/attic/20070-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Exhibit Spotlights Award Winners]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[You might not expect to see a home office and a tropical house at a museum, but those are just a few of the things you’ll see at the Smithsonian American Art Museum this fall.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hill Boutique Blaze Likely Was Accidental]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Several D.C. fire trucks raced to Dottie’s Boutique, located near Eastern Market at 214 Seventh St. SE, to put out a blaze at approximately 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revealing The Source]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The opening of the Newseum has been pushed back to the first quarter of 2008, but the finishing touches are being put in place at its adjoining restaurant, The Source by Wolfgang Puck, which is scheduled to open Oct. 8. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_30/hotplate/20074-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Familiar Teams Take Titles]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The 2007 Congressional softball league seasons came to a close over the weekend, and the final playoff rounds of each league included some familiar names. The RBIs of Texas took home their second straight Senate crown, while Suspension of the Rules and the No Talent AZ Clowns won the House league titles.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Study in Contrast]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Last week, we asked you to identify the crumbling infrastructure below. This week, we bring you a gleaming building adjacent to the Capitol. Such are the contrasts found in the nation’s capital. Check back next week for the ID of the building above.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_31/lost/20104-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Museum Leads ‘Greener Good’ Discussion]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Near the end of the 19th century, the country’s largest cities were polluted, disease-ridden places that proved fatal to many of their residents. Suburbs developed as a greener, healthier alternative to living in dense inner cities.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tour Marks Progress on Anacostia Cleanup]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[To celebrate progress in cleaning up the Anacostia River and coordinate the continuation of those efforts, Members of Congress, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) and other officials took a boat tour of the notoriously polluted river on Friday morning.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_31/hilltalk/20110-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Native Coloradan Moves Up]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rick Palacio is a fifth-generation Coloradan on his mother’s side, and his father was born to Sicilian and Mexican immigrants. He is one of 57 grandchildren on his father’s side.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_31/climbers/20111-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Memorial Pushes Ahead]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Freshman Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.) was on the House floor when his colleague from the Illinois delegation, Rep. Mark Kirk (R), approached him with a chance to help an effort to erect a memorial for disabled veterans.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library Launches Ads to Promote Reading]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress has teamed up with the Ad Council to launch a series of public service announcements to inspire children in grades four through six to enjoy reading and promote lifelong literacy.  ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[For Book Lovers and More]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Not many events can bring together a pastry chef, a poet laureate and the current president’s sister, but this year’s National Book Festival is designed to do just that. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library Exhibit Commemorates ‘West Side Story’]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Celebrated with critical acclaim and beloved by theatergoers, the classic “West Side Story” will receive a little more recognition today, with the Library of Congress’ launch of “West Side Story: Birth of a Classic.”]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pitching In for Public Lands]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[For being such a concrete metropolis, Washington, D.C., is green.]]></description>
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