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September 2007

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Darfur survivors speak out

Daoud Hari spent most of his life working on a family farm in Musbat, a village in Darfur, until his village was bombed by his own government. He escaped to join an estimated 2.5 million other Darfurian refugees.

By September 6, 2007

Voices

Still frustrated in New Orleans

Children are taught to take pride in our country and to have faith in what our government can and will do for us, due to the simple fact that we are all American. However, the wide-eyed and innocent faith that I once held in my democratic government was shattered in one day.

By September 6, 2007

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The Italian Job

It was Kamilla’s idea to get on the bus. We couldn’t read Italian; there was no schedule. “We’ll just see where it goes,” she said. “We don’t even have to buy a ticket. We’ll sit in the back and if they start checking we’ll be like, ‘oh, in Italy you have to buy a ticket for the bus?’”

By September 6, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Part 2

Continued from our August 30 Issue

By September 6, 2007

News

On the Record: Jack DeGioia

Georgetown University President Jack DeGioia recently sat down with representatives of several campus newspapers to discuss issues important to students.

By September 6, 2007

News

City on a Hill: Metro keeps it real (estate)

A train killed two Metro employees last November and fires crippled the subway system last month. A new report from a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority task force suggests the agency’s dangerous incompetence extends above ground as well.

By September 6, 2007

Voices

Georgetown, it’s not you, it’s me

My thoughts as I gazed out the airplane window were those of hopelessness, nervousness and regret. I was convinced that my decision to withdraw for a semester was probably the worst mistake of my life.

By September 6, 2007

News

Building blues

Georgetown’s new science building will receive the lowest rating on an environmental rating scale, the University Architect said Tuesday in a presentation to the Advisory Neighborhood Committee.

By September 6, 2007

Voices

The workout literally from hell

Most people visit the famed Exorcist steps next to Car Barn for a photograph, or maybe a joke about how much it would suck to trip and fall. But scrawled writing on the lowest step reveals another reason for visiting these haunted stones: a fast-paced but vicious workout routine also titled “the Exorcist.” Not the most original name, but appropriate, because about halfway through the workout you feel like the life is being sucked out of you.

By September 6, 2007

News

Another brick in the Wal-Mart

A presentation of business ethics and international development became a confrontation over Wal-Mart’s business practices when students protested a lecture by a Wal-Mart executive on Wednesday.

By September 6, 2007