By default Drupal will not rendor HTML tags in a node's title. While the "HTML Title" module works for rendoring the actual node correctly it does not work for printing the title correctly in a view. Here's a little work around I used.
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template.php
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<?php
/* template.php */
function MYTHEME_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
/*make sure to strip out the extra characters for the page title in the <head> tag */
$vars['head_title'] = MYTHEME_strip($vars['head_title']);
}