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A true patriot’s priorities

Five golden rings, four calling birds … three American fryers … two turtledoves and a partridge in a pair tree.

By January 18, 2007

Voices

Several films, zero fame, all love

The wind was heavy, it was too cold for a tee-shirt and I was scared my nipples were going to show up in the shot. It’s not a normal concern for me, but Ross has a damn nice camera, and he assured us this was being filmed in HD. Every detail, every blemish, would show up on the projection screen in his basement when we were finished, from the discontinuities in my hairstyle to my potentially cold nipples. Cinema!

By January 18, 2007

News

Protests disrupt MLK Jr. commemoration

Protests erupted during President John J. DeGioia’s speech at Georgetown’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration on Monday night.

By January 18, 2007

News

Employees pay up for Quad parking

Employees of Georgetown’s contracted companies, including Marriot and Follett, must pay daily fees to park in the under-utilized Southwest Quad Garage, which add up to considerably more per month than the monthly permits available for University faculty and staff

By January 18, 2007

News

Will D.C. be HPV free?

A vaccine that prevents human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer may join the ranks of tetanus and hepatitis as required vaccination for area middle-schoolers.

By January 18, 2007

News

Extra officers will patrol Georgetown

Although Georgetown residents have hired private security guards with cellphones and flashlights from Securitas Security Services for years, the neighborhood’s anti-crime presence is now stronger than ever before.

By January 18, 2007

News

Off-track train prompts Metro investigation

A federal investigation evaluating the Metro’s safety began after a Green Line train derailed near the Mount Vernon Square station on Jan. 7, injuring 20 people.

By January 18, 2007

News

Voice from Guantanamo

In a live telecast to a packed auditorium at the Georgetown Law Center, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee recalled the dehumanizing atmosphere of the military detention center there and criticized the U.S. government’s war on terror.

By January 18, 2007

News

Dangerous D.C.

From terrorist attacks to hurricanes, America has time and again witnessed devastation of horrifying proportion. Even after these disasters, we have chosen to ignore the obvious implications: we in D.C. are woefully underprepared to respond to the consequences of catastrophe.

By January 18, 2007

Sports

Georgetown swims hard but comes up short

Georgetown swimming and diving, to the average fan, might appear to be at a dismal nadir.

By January 18, 2007

Sports

January Madness

When a lower-ranked team wins, the media often calls it an upset. This has happened quite often eacrly in the Big East season, so much that the world “upset” has lost its meaning.

By January 18, 2007

Sports

Georgetown men bounce back

The Hoyas had only a few days to regroup from Saturday’s loss to Pittsburgh before heading back on the road to face Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey last night.

By January 18, 2007

Editorials

Resisting the urge to surge

To surge or not to surge, that is the question. Look at the facts: Iraq is a land area larger than California. Baghdad alone has a population of over six... Read more

By the January 18, 2007

Editorials

Unparallel parking system

Jobs work on the basic principle that you trade your time for monetary compensation. But if you happen to work at the Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall or the Campus... Read more

By the January 18, 2007

Editorials

Getting to girls early on

Eliminating poverty, ending cancer, brokering world peace—everyone’s had a daydream or two involving these noble goals, but let’s face it: they’re not too likely. Thanks to the development of the... Read more

By the January 18, 2007

Voices

Get bent, Beckham!

This past summer, a couple of friends and I got tickets to see FC Barcelona play the New York Red Bulls at Giant’s Stadium. It seemed that the entire tri-state area had tickets to the game. It was not an intense devotion to Red Bulls that attracted these fans. We all wanted to see Ronaldinho dance around challenges, Messi blast through defenders, and Deco score goals. Giants’ Stadium roared when Barcelona possessed the ball, and at one point erupted in chants of Messi’s name. We were there for Barcelona, and quite frankly we could not care less how the Red Bulls faired.

By January 18, 2007

Voices

Carrying on: Is Somalia Iraq 2.0?

“Islamist attacks destablize southern region.” “Road-side bomb leaves 20 dead.” “U.S. strike kills multiple civilians.”

By January 18, 2007

Features

Mapping the Atlas District

A three-block stretch of H Street in Northeast might be D.C.’s new haven for nightlife refugees from Adams Morgan seeking lower rents and less vomit on the sidewalk. But you’d never know it peering through the blinds of a shuttered bar on a Tuesday night, while your cabbie yells to get back in the car before you get shot. The so-called Atlas District, located about a mile northeast of Union Station, has been in total disarray since the riots after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, but the area is now being claimed and renamed by a few forward-thinking scene-builders who know how to squint with the right kind of eyes down the wide, empty H Street Corridor and see a renaissance in utero.

By January 18, 2007

Leisure

God gets bored with the Lost Boys

Either too much time has elapsed in the film industry since the last political rallying cry (An Inconvenient Truth) or Hollywood has more time on its hands than we thought.

By January 18, 2007

Leisure

Cross-dressing witch adds charm to Macbeth

Synetic Theater, a group participating in Washington’s six monthlong Shakespeare festival, has accomplished what Cliff’s Notes and Hollywood have been trying to do for decades: it has given aggravated students Shakespeare without its most troubling component: Shakespeare.

By January 18, 2007

Leisure

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 January 18, 2007

Leisure

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 January 18, 2007

Leisure

You Taste Like a Burger: The Food Olympics

a bi-weekly column on food

By 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 January 18, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

poetry: watching an in-flight movie

By January 18, 2007