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January 2004

Leisure

Visions screens political film

Over the summer, my hometown newspaper ran an article about the lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report that Bush’s constant message of Saddam Hussein’s threat to the U.S. and the world was essentially fabricated outraged me, but I was more upset by the story’s placement.

By the January 15, 2004

Editorials

Ditching the District

This Tuesday, D.C. voters had the chance to participate in the District’s inaugural “Presidential Preference Primary.” By placing the District’s primary before the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, District officials hoped to attract national attention to its lack of congressional voting rights.

By the January 15, 2004

Leisure

We do like them apples

LEISURE BY PRIYA BAPAT Mask and Bauble’s third production of the season, The Apple Cart, is an updated take on playwright George Bernard Shaw’s vision of the future.

By the January 15, 2004

News

Twin triumphs for GU expansion plans

NEWS BY MIKE DEBONIS AND SHANTHI MANIAN Last month authorities handed Georgetown two significant victories in its continuing battle for expansion.

By the January 15, 2004

Features

The Kennedys’ Jesuit

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Journalist Thomas Maier’s The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, which chronicles the Kennedys through the lens of their Irish-Catholic roots, received significant press when it was released late last year because of its revealing portrait of Jackie Kennedy’s deteriorating mental health in the spring of 1964, after her husband’s assassination.

By the January 15, 2004

Voices

The real state of the union

VOICES BY BILL CLEVELAND Tuesday night Georgetown students gathered for “The Real State of the Union,” a panel discussion with several writers for the Atlantic Monthly.

By the January 15, 2004

Voices

Two questions for conservatives

Can you close your eyes and picture a scarier, more dangerous America? An America in which the ideas of The Nation or Marx’s Kapital had won the day, a world in which leftism had gone so far, become so extreme, that electing even a moderate conservative to national office proved impossible?

By the January 15, 2004

Leisure

Eleven reasons to remember ’03

1. The Meadowlands, The Wrens, Absolutely Kosher New Jersey based indie rockers return from seven years of silence with a masterpiece proving that the guitar is alive and kicking. Complex melodies ranging from quiet, intricate beauty to sublime hurricanes of overdriven six-string glory flow together into a single, cohesive opus of the slow decay of suburban nine to five life.

By the January 15, 2004

Voices

Housing development’s leftovers

Ever since I can remember, I’ve gone to my grandmother’s house in Rhode Island for Thanksgiving. Family and friends come together for a celebration and non-stop eating with leftovers for three days. As kids, my brother, sisters, and I always escaped the hedonistic feeding frenzy to go out and explore the woods behind Grandma’s house.

By the January 15, 2004

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