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		<title>Sufism: Killing the Ego to Experience Something Beyond Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 13:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shiva Sharif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike mass orthodox religions, disciples of this mystical spiritualism follow no guidebook with rigid definitions of what's good and bad. Instead, they follow a spiritual path that requires letting go of the ego and appreciating being outside of one’s self.  

<b>By Shiva Sharif</b>
<em>Social Media Manager</em>]]></description>
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		<title>In a slow recovery, making a living in the arts takes creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 19:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idit Knaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the performing arts are seeing a slow post-recession recovery, performers find creative ways of making a living.
<b>By Idit Knaan</b>
<em>Visual Editor</em>]]></description>
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		<title>The Adoption Paradox: No Easy Answer On What’s Best for Orphans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 19:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Young</dc:creator>
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		<title>Mixed up: Interracial Couples Rise Across the Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 18:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnette Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Interracial Marriages Continue to Rise in the Country, Have Americans Really Gone Colorblind?
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<b>By Johnette Reed</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Saving McClatchy in the time of vanishing newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 18:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nima Tamaddon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a decade working at the Poynter Institute, Julie Moos joined the McClatchy Company as the Senior Digital Editor to oversee the online transition of a publishing company that operates 30 daily newspapers nationwide. 

<strong>By Nima Tamaddon</strong>
<em>Photo Editor</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Storytellers&#8217; &#8216;Road To The Altar&#8217; is Better Said Than Done</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelly Wolfe, 39, is a nervous wreck. She is performing for the fourth time — last time she had a total meltdown. &#8220;Dorothy Parker has said something like, ‘I hate to write but I love to have written.’ That is the way I feel about storytelling,” she says, With 30 minutes to go before the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food writing endures digital evolution through need, indulgence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essential nature of food has lent itself to the endurance of food writing through the media industry’s slump.
<br />
<b>By Laura D'Alessandro</b>
<em>Managing Editor</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Newsroom Diversity : Black Reporters Preparing for Newsroom Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lauren M. Williams

Sondai Costley, a sophomore at Howard University majoring in print journalism, bubbles with enthusiasm when she talks about the future.

Costley, originally from Arlington, Va., wants to write for a magazine when she graduates in 2015. She speaks with a certainty in her voice about becoming the kind of black journalist who has the skills and fortitude to write not only about issues affecting the black community but also global issues, politics, entertainment and any news story that might come her way.]]></description>
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		<title>Latino Political Influence Grows in Tandem with Population</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Penserga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A close analysis of America’s growing Latino population – and its increase influence in shaping the country’s future – could be evidence of an important national change looming across the political and civic landscape. As the Latino population across the United States has grown over the last 10 years, so has interest in politics and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaming in DC: The Rules and the Reason</title>
		<link>http://wp11.americanobserver.net/2013/05/gaming-in-dc-the-rules-and-the-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJ Gioconda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a hard and long 16 years.With all the immigrant populations counted all that was left was deciding who had won the ward's popular vote. Ward 13 was hardest fought, but after three political chips, and a prior power move to redistribute the immigrant cubes, he did it. "I win," said Michael Holzer, D.C. Game Night's weekly game organizer.

<b>By TJ Gioconda</b>
<em>Executive Producer</em>]]></description>
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		<title>A Lifetime in Radio News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Anastasi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>A Lifetime in Radio</i> Despite audiences rapidly abandoning broadcast for digital news and entertainment media, those who “pilot the airwaves” continue to plug away, offering listeners the traditional formula of “news, traffic and weather.” <br /><b>By Pat Anastasi</b><br /><i>Producer</i>]]></description>
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		<title>Alone but not lonely: the introverted traveler</title>
		<link>http://wp11.americanobserver.net/2013/05/alone-but-not-lonely-the-introverted-traveler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 14:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Holt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[introversion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Mellnick likes to get away. The Washington, D.C. freelance photographer spent the past two-and-half years traveling the world, taking pictures and blogging about far away places.]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Cultures</title>
		<link>http://wp11.americanobserver.net/2013/04/a-tale-of-two-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rolando Sevina-Bustamante, 33, was born in Washington, D.C., the first native-born American in an immigrant family. He watched his Martiniquian father and Nicaraguan mother uproot themselves and start a new life in a new land. The success of his parents, despite many obstacles, motivates Sevina-Bustamante to win!

<b>Lauren M. Williams</b> 
<em>Assistant Producer</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia&#8217;s expatriates find a home in D.C. metro area</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnette Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brutal civil war that left many Liberians scattered across the globe has brought together pockets of Liberians communities in major cities, including Washington,D.C.]]></description>
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		<title>The American Dream Emigrates to Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shiva Sharif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many countries lose their population to the American dream. Brazil is now offering the same and becoming a rising immigrant magnet.<br />

<b>By Shiva Sharif</b>
<em>Social Media Manager</em>]]></description>
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