Articles tagged: city on a hill

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City on a Hill: Snow More Parking Tickets

Winter Storm Jonas left more than just two feet of snow on the ground. In the days following the blizzard, a massive city-wide clean up effort was underway in order... Read more

By February 8, 2016

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City on a Hill: House of Jokers

Georgetown might have flamed out of the 2015 NCAA tournament last weekend, but for the rest of Washington, D.C. the madness of March drags on. Only the players in this... Read more

By March 26, 2015

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City on a Hill: Hoya See, Hoya Do

According to the website of the International Society on Infant Studies (whose unfortunate acronym is ISIS), babies as young as four months exhibit a behavior called mirroring, by which they mimic... Read more

By February 18, 2015

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City on a Hill: Obama’s Odd Duck Politics

With the twilight two years of the Obama administration well under way and the president’s sixth State of the Union address now under his belt, it’s worth remembering that, of... Read more

By January 29, 2015

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City on a Hill: Marion in Ferguson

If death marks the beginning of legacy, Washington, D.C.’s so-called “Mayor for Life,” Marion Barry Jr., started strong. Despite a controversial career marred by crack-smoking and womanizing, the four-term mayor... Read more

By December 4, 2014

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City on a Hill: Election 2014, Social issues lose

The result of Tuesday’s mayoral election, with Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) emerging victorious against David Catania (I-At Large) with 53.9 percent of the votes, were predictable. After the release of a... Read more

By November 6, 2014

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City on a Hill: D.C. taxis fare poorly against Uber

Most Georgetown students, especially when they have to be somewhere in a pinch, have experienced the satisfaction that comes with the ease of calling an Uber taxi and being dropped... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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City on a Hill: The brutal truth about D.C.’s finest

Watching the riots unfold in Ferguson while sitting on my couch back home in Jackson, Miss., during the 50th anniversary of the South’s Freedom Summer movement for racial equality no... Read more

By September 25, 2014

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City on a Hill: The Geography of Hunger

From the convenience of high quality, organic produce at Safeway to fresh sushi plates at Dean & Deluca, Georgetown students are surrounded by a cornucopia of food choices. What many... Read more

By September 4, 2014