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January 2004

Leisure

Mary Kate, Ashley

Attention all males! Only 150 days, 3 hours, and 29 seconds ‘til the Olsen twins are legal! Since this changes very little for the majority of your sex lives, I’d like to make a proposition: stop coveting the bodies of small children and look at yourselves! Fantasizing about legally unattainable girls is preventing you from any hope you ever had for a real relationship.

By the January 15, 2004

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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

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

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

Think Money

The family holiday gathering is the perfect setting for all Hoyas preparing for a life in politics and diplomacy. Along with dry small talk with distant relatives and the forced laughs masking “that thing we don’t mention in front of uncle Jim,” there is the inevitable period of questoning.

By the January 15, 2004

News

Women’s Center director to begin

The Georgetown University Women’s Center will welcome Dr. Jill Holmes Robinson as its new Director on Feb. 1. Robinson, who holds a doctorate from the University of Virginia, specializes in university counseling and student affairs administration, and has experience in counseling issues pertaining specifically to women.

By the January 15, 2004

News

Welfare research brings professor acclaim

Research is hardly a glamorous field, but Assistant Professor Carolyn J. Hill has made it a little more interesting. The professor at Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute was recognized recently by a committee of peers for her research on welfare-to-work programs in the United States.

By the January 15, 2004

News

Dean captures symbolic D.C. primary

Presidential candidate Howard Dean claimed victory in Washington’s non-binding Democratic primary on Tuesday, in an event attended only by the most diehard of Georgetown Democrats. The organizers of the presidential primary, the first in the 2004 election, described it as a partial success in drawing national attention to D.

By the January 15, 2004

News

Spanish President draws a crowd

NEWS BY DAN JOYCE Spanish President Jos? Mar?a Aznar proposed a bold new economic alliance between the European Union and the United States in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

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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