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Day: April 11, 2002

Leisure

Voices carry on 14th

This week, grab that $1.10 and take the G2 Metrobus down to 14th Street. Strong and exciting women’s performance nights are just springing up all over the place there, and I suggest you catch them while they last. The first of the two, Mothertongue, is a women’s spoken word night.

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Leisure

Goya’s still got it

The exhibition, Goya: Images of Women, is an outstanding show at once witty, sensual and highly thoughtful. Displayed first in Spain, the exhibition comes to the National Gallery from Madrid’s premier art museum, El Prado. You might only recall Goya (Francisco Goya y Lucientes) from his celebrated paintings, two of the most stunning in the exhibition?the Maja Desnuda (Naked Maja) and the Maja Vestida (Clothed Maja).

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Leisure

Gomez peppers new LP with sundry influences

It’s hard to tell whether Britain is a conqueror or the serially invaded, imperialist or napkin for every culture’s coffee spill. No wonder they really love Gomez over there. The third proper full-length album from these Manchester lads, In Our Gun, continually stalks the fine line between being influenced by other artists and blatantly ripping them off.

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Leisure

Osbournes bites head off clich?s

Eleven years after The Real World introduced the idea of reality TV, the form has come to dominate television. Most of these shows, The Real World included, consist of contrived scenarios that have become sordid at best. Fear Factor and Survivor, for example, are goal-oriented; the cast members are pitted against one another in sometimes nasty competitions for money.

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News

Forgotten

My guess is that in the four years I’ve been here, at least 900 people in the District have been murdered. In the first three months of this year, there have been over 50 homicides, up 13 percent from the same time last year. Among the recent victims:

Saturday, March 23: Corey Harvell, 24, died from a gunshot wound to the head in Southeast.

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News

University honors long-serving faculty

The Georgetown academic community gathered in Gaston Hall on Tuesday night to celebrate the contributions of long-time University faculty and staff in the Annual Faculty Convocation.

Provost Dorothy Brown opened the ceremony with introductions for the invocation by Imam Yahya Hendi and a benediction by Rev.

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News

YALA demonstrators show support for Palestine

Shouts of “Free, free Palestine!”, and waving red, white, green and black Palestinian flags filled Red Square yesterday at noon. Simultaneously, a group of approximately 40 black-clad Arab-American students and supporters joined hands, creating an outward facing circle to show their unity in ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

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News

Cloisters defer vote on occupancy policy

The Cloisters West Homeowners Association referred to committee an amendment which could eventually prevent students from living in the Cloisters, a private residential community on Reservoir Road.

According to the association’s president, Jim Kinsella, the association decided Wednesday to defer voting on the amendment, which would prevent more than three unrelated persons from living together in a Cloister townhouse.

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Editorials

The darker side

On March 28, D.C. Inspector General Charles Maddox released a 514-page report detailing a series of fundraising inproprieties in the office of Mayor Anthony Williams. According to the report, mayoral aides tapped the accounts of local nonprofits for events and programs that were often politically beneficial for Williams and vigorously solicited donations from organizations with a business interest in the District government.

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Editorials

Why can’t we stay?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Although the good doctor was most certainly not referring to Georgetown students right to live in high-priced community housing, the point still stands.

The West Cloisters Homeowner’s Association voted Wednesday on a measure to prohibit more than three unrelated individuals from living in a Cloisters residence.

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