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Carrying On: Life and death in the fast lane

If you’ve ever fallen asleep at the wheel, you know what a bewildering experience it is to wake up. And if you survive, and bring your car to a safe stop, those moments of terror recede into something between a dream and a memory.

By Austin Richardson January 25, 2007

Hillary and Bill, sitting in a tree

After 227 years of white men in the nation’s highest office, this election has experienced a “surge” in diversity. Among the announced Democratic candidates are half Mexican-American Gov. Bill Richardson, half African-American Sen. Barack Obama, and full Woman-American Sen. Hillary Clinton. Yet while Clinton has the novel opportunity to potentially be the first female politician nominated for the presidency by a major party, her surname will constantly remind us that she is not just any lady.

By Kent Elliott January 25, 2007

The first snow of the rest of my life

When it is going to snow, you can smell it in the air. There is a cool bite, but not so cold that a deep breath stings going down. Just before the snow is the best time to walk outdoors, look up into an overcast sky and wait with anticipation.

By Lauren Gaskill January 25, 2007

Student Association kicks off presidential election

With web sites, Facebook.com groups, a spattering of fliers, and a YouTube video, the Student Association election season is officially underway

By Kate Mays January 25, 2007

Features

The Science of Research

In a third-floor conference room in Building D on the campus of the Georgetown University Medical Center, Dr. Pedro Jose’s award-winning—and argumentative—research team is gathered around a long table for their weekly lab meeting.

“This is tough,” Jose, a diminutive Filipino-American, explains as I enter the room. “We look at raw data.”

By Anna Bank January 25, 2007

Nuclear weapons (debate) in ICC

School of Foreign Service Dean Robert Gallucci and Center for Peace and Security Studies Director Daniel Byman went head to head on the danger of nuclear terrorism in a debate last night.

By John Lawless January 25, 2007

Pop! goes the femur

I knew that the head of this patient’s femur was going to need to go back into his pelvis. They would drill a hole through the bone and fix it in place to the bed frame until surgery could be performed. I had learned to steel myself for the brutal procedure, picturing it in my head before it actually happened in front of me, like I’d done countless times over the previous six months of my internship in Indianapolis’ public hospital. I remember idly wondering if they would need a spade bit.

By Ryan Callahan January 25, 2007

Library lowdown

Character and Personality is a 13-volume book set, 3 volumes of which presumably contain lithographs of correct postures. Visible from the entrance of Riggs library, it looks like the sort of classy antiquarian series that replaces s’s with italic f’s.

By Will Sommer January 25, 2007

NHL Recount

Rory Fitzpatrick is the kind of hard-working journeyman that is becoming harder and harder to find in the National Hockey League today. He doesn’t have the stats of your typical all-star player. In fact, he isn’t on the official all-star ballot at all. Fitzpatrick has exactly one assist this season and only nine goals after a decade in the league. But that didn’t stop Steve Schmid of New York from starting what has now become a national movement: the Vote for Rory campaign.

By Dante Randazzo January 25, 2007

HarassEdu

For the first time, the Georgetown University Board of Directors will require all faculty and staff to participate in an online harassment education program, titled “Promoting a Respectful Campus Community.”

By Isabella Bennett January 25, 2007

Shooting woes extend Hoyas’ losing streak

The Hoyas came out strong at home against the Cincinnati Bearcats last Tuesday, but despite their efforts the ladies fell into a shooting drought in the first half and never recovered. The Bearcats (12-7, 3-4 BE) defeated Georgetown (11-9, 1-6 BE) by a score of 80-62, bringing the Lady Hoyas’ losing streak to three.

By Liz Kuebler January 25, 2007

Green leads Hoyas past DePaul

The Hoyas recorded an important conference win against DePaul last night at the Verizon Center, a place where they have been less than dominant this year.

By David Dietz January 25, 2007

The Sports Sermon

This past Sunday, students anxiously awaiting the first snowfall of the year were finally granted a taste of white weather. From my warm vantage point in a Harbin common room, commanding a view of the entire football field, I was treated with a scene that delighted the sports fan within me.

By Anthony Francavilla January 25, 2007

Controversial sign leads to apology

Most of the record number of students who lined up at McDonough Gymnasium earlier this year to collect their men’s basketball season ticket packages hardly noticed the cover. Recent complaints, however, have revealed a sign in the background of the cover that some have construed as homophobic.

By Kathryn Brand January 25, 2007

Safeway sells

Students will soon be able to throw a 12-pack into their carts at the Safeway on Wisconsin Ave. This month, the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board granted the store a Class B liquor license, which allows the sale of beer and wine, but not hard alcohol.

By Michael Bruns January 25, 2007

Pro-life activists descend on the District

As Roe v. Wade turned 34 last weekend, pro-life activists flocked to the District of Columbia and to Georgetown to protest the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in... Read more

By John Lawless January 25, 2007

A new home for D.C. United

Development in the District is looking like all fun and games since last Saturday, when city officials unveiled a new set of plans to build a D.C. United soccer stadium directly across the Anacostia River from the new Nationals stadium. Washington now has three stadiums in the works.

By Mike Stewart January 25, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

poetry: watching an in-flight movie

By Chris Norton January 18, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

The Future Journaling of Gordon Gladberry

I had to get away, to go somewhere where no one had heard of Gordon Gladberry, and start a life based on me, not my name.

By Bradley Gorski January 18, 2007

You Taste Like a Burger: The Food Olympics

a bi-weekly column on food

By Kathryn Brand January 18, 2007

Critical Voices: Clap Your Hands, Menomena

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder, Wichita Cease the clapping, cross the arms and brace yourself for the slump. Abandoning the upbeat, dancey formula of the band’s 2005... Read more

By Daniel Cook January 18, 2007

The story behind Zoo Story

It is January 11th, roughly two weeks before opening night on Nomadic Theater’s production of Zoo Story. It’s down to the nitty-gritty now: the specifics of the noise a dog makes and how, exactly, the newspaper should be shoved under a bench.

By Shira Hecht January 18, 2007