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Top Ten Movies and Albums of 2007

TOP TEN MOVIES 10. American Gangster Based on the life of Manhattan drug lord Frank Lucas, American Gangster is a memorable entry into the gangster film canon. Starring Denzel Washington... Read more

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Editorials

It takes more than two to study

Pity the members of Professor Jennifer Swift’s organic chemistry class.

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Editorials

Student rights a primary issue

Home is where the vote is.

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Editorials

Scholarship deal fit for a prince

Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies recently signed an agreement with Prince George’s Community College which will allow qualified Prince George’s graduates to enroll in Georgetown’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Program.

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Voices

What we have here is a failure to communicate

“You just don’t have a soul.”

It hurt when she said it, but I understood why my best friend was so upset. Braving arctic January winds, we had hiked a mile from Chicago’s downtown Loop to the only theater in the entire metropolitan area that was still showing Pride & Prejudice. She had spent two months threatening, begging and bribing me to see it, and I had caved. Now we were about to board a Green Line train at 10:30 p.m.—essentially asking to be robbed—all because she had been sure that this movie would finally make me a chick-flick lover.

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Voices

This Georgetown Life: Happy Holidays from the Family

This Georgetown Life is a collection of stories written by Georgetown students all based on the same theme. [Cue trendy jazz music.]

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Leisure

Decaying Photos

Christopher Myers’ “Standing on Two Eyes” is a refreshing departure from the modern-day overkill of digital photography, confronting the unrest of urban gentrification with a collection of hauntingly beautiful and nostalgic black and white giclee (a type of fine-art ink-jet) prints.

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Leisure

WEB EXCLUSIVE ‘There Will Be Blood’: There Was Blood … And More

Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is a devilish movie that isn’t easily absorbed in its two-and-a-half-hour runtime. Although it offers hardly any satisfying moments, There Will Be Blood is challenging and engaging, polished filmmaking at its best that makes for a demanding, but extremely rewarding, experience.

By December 6, 2007