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Gangster tears shit up

Already being hailed as the black Godfather and the Harlem Scarface, many critics have essentially taken for granted that American Gangster must be judged against the classics of its genre. I was less sure that it couldn’t be judged on its own merits, though, and I feared that stacking it up against The Godfather and other greats would inevitably make it seem disappointing in comparison. Surprisingly, despite its length and its failure to truly innovate, it holds its own among the heavyweights of the gangster film canon and is a contender for the best movie of 2007.

Leisure

Gone Baby Gone finds success

I went into Ben Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone hoping that it wouldn’t be too terrible. I left the theater doubting everything I knew about the man.

Leisure

Fabulation nothing short of fabulous

For about an hour after “Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine” (it makes sense in the context of one of the play’s best moments, but damned if I’m actually going to write it out each time), I walked around in a kind of shocked appreciation, the stupor of being in the presence of something fleetingly, unevenly true. The production, under Isiah Wooden’s direction, has some problems, but the moments that work do so beautifully.

Sports

XC makes waves in KY

A few days of rain left the ground at the E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, KY, a bit wet Saturday, but the flat course at the Big East Cross Country Championships provided few challenges for Georgetown’s runners, with senior Melissa Grelli’s first place finish providing the highlight of the weekend.

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Rather than accept the mounting specter of a multi-sport New England dynasty, sanity requires that I retreat to the comfort of my own imaginary sports Valhalla.

Sports

Road work

Marathoners are a different type of athlete, driven to take on a 26.2 mile run just for that inexplicable runner’s high.

Sports

What Rocks

Senior Melissa Grelli had an historic performance this past Saturday at the Big East Championship in Louisville, Ky.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

We all know that U.S.-China relations are a tricky aspect of our nation’s foreign policy, which is why the Bush administration is rolling out the big guns for its latest efforts at diplomacy: Cal Ripken is taking a swing at things in Beijing (pun intended).

Sports

Sweet November for GU soccer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team is back in the playoffs after winning two matches in a row and four of five.

Editorials

Doing our part for Iraqi refugees

While the government and all educational institutions must do their part, Georgetown—where Iraq war planners like former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and former CIA director George Tenet, have come to roost—owes a larger debt than most.

Editorials

$10 million well spent on D.C. students

President John DeGioia should be commended for his recent success in landing the Institute for College Preparation (ICP) a cool $10 million grant from the Meyers Foundation.

Editorials

A B- in sustainability doesn’t cut it

Georgetown has reason be proud, but for a school marked by overachievers, there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Voices

Carrying On

Spaniards have a phrase for people who don’t know how to cook: Ni puede freír un huevo. (he can’t even fry an egg). This is what my host mom, Concha, told me about my lack of skill in the culinary arts. Yet only a few weeks later, she wanted me to cook a family delicacy.

Voices

Ever try to write 50,000 words in 30 days?

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. During NaNo, as insiders call it, participants challenge themselves to pen a 50,000 word novel in the thirty days of November. Winners are novelists. Losers, well—nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Voices

Learning how to run like a queen

Thousands lined 17th street waiting for the race to start. Maybe it was the dazzling amount of glitter, sequins and rhinestones in one place, or maybe it was a mixture of our amazement and envy, but the drag queens were statuesque and awe inspiring.

Voices

No refuge for former child soldiers

Walking to the market, an eleven-year-old boy is arrested by the National Patriotic Front of Liberia. They ask him to join their army and to kill a captured Armed Forces of Liberia. When he refuses, they threaten his life, forcing him to comply. The boy spends the next few years on the front lines, being threatened at knifepoint to kill other men and children. Such was the norm in Liberia during the late eighties and early nineties.

Leisure

Vox on the Blocks

What do you call a cross between a human and a chimpanzee? A humanzee. A cross between a human and a 1983 Casio keyboard? Dan Deacon. Party with the man-machine himself in Hoya Court while chomping on subs.

News

Saxa Politica: GPB not ready for the big time

Georgetown finally did the impossible: bring a performer on campus that students recognize, if not exactly respect. A dismal production, though, frustrated students who were not expecting the utter chaos that they found.

News

CMEA’s boon

A Georgetown program that provides college preparatory services to low-income middle and high school students in the District will get a large boost due to a recent gift. The Meyers Institute for College Preparation, a program of the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, will use the additional funds to expand their program by 500 students over the next ten years.

News

GUSA, Corp take (Eco) Action

The Student Association, the Corp and EcoAction are launching new initiatives aimed at improving environmental responsibility on campus.

News

Protesters hit G’town

Restaurant-goers pressed their faces to the windows and civilians lined the streets in a deluge of rain to observe several hundred protestors turning onto Wisconsin Avenue last Friday night.

News

Flags raise abortion awareness during Life Week

3,534 pink and blue flags, representing the number of fetuses aborted every day, dotted Copley Lawn on Wednesday. The flag display was the most visible of a series of education, advocacy and service events organized by GU Right to Life for their annual Life Week.

News

DeGioia agrees to Pride demands

Georgetown University President John DeGioia committed last night to a fully-funded and fully-staffed resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students by fall of next year.

Features

The Thin Blue Line

“I don’t like school papers,” Officer Malcolm Rhinehart told me, minutes after I sat down in his patrol car. Apparently, a past interview had gone awry.

Rhinehart, an unassuming black man with thin frame glasses, a graying buzz cut and short mustache, would spend the next four hours on his evening patrol shift as I rode shotgun, trying to learn something—anything—about what it is to be a police officer in our neighborhood.

As Rhinehart set about police work, from ticketing errant taxi drivers to lecturing a pervert, I wouldn’t find out much about him. But watching him work through situations bizarre and depressing, filing pages of paperwork as he went, it was possible to get the sense that D.C.’s police aren’t just those who arrest Georgetown students for being drunk and disorderly; they’re the people who take care of the District when it sleeps.