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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 Editorial Board January 18, 2007

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 Editorial Board January 18, 2007

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 Editorial Board 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 Andrew Viteritti 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 Michael Bruns 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 Chris Norton January 18, 2007

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 Traviss Cassidy January 18, 2007

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 Ryan Maye Handy 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

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

You Taste Like a Burger: The Food Olympics

a bi-weekly column on food

By Kathryn Brand 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

Page 13 Cartoons

poetry: watching an in-flight movie

By Chris Norton January 18, 2007

Kegs will stay on campus

After a semester’s worth of deliberation, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson decided not to ban kegs, although he will limit events to one keg each starting next fall.

By Michael Bruns January 11, 2007

DeGioia stands up for Early Action

President John J. DeGioia defended Georgetown’s decision to continue its non-binding Early Action policy in an interview yesterday, saying that only applicants who would be admitted during the regular decision process are admitted early.

By Ryan Maye Handy January 11, 2007

Metro fare may rise

Trips off campus could become more expensive next year under a proposal by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

By Mike Stewart January 11, 2007

Corp coffee shops clean up

The Corp coffee shops that Georgetown students know well are making numerous, large-scale changes to their service and products throughout the month of January to become better, more efficient Corp coffee shops.

By Kate Mays January 11, 2007

Wormley for sale

Encore Development will offer buyers the opportunity to purchase condominums in the historic Wormley School on Prospect St. at the end of this month.

By Michael Bruns January 11, 2007

Tix in Gaston

For the majority of last semester, the Lecture Fund’s list of speakers included big names like former President Bill Clinton, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, and Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan. Students could brag to their friends at other schools that a president or NGO leader spoke at Georgetown every week.

By Will Sommer January 11, 2007

Fenty’s school takeover

Mayor Adrian Fenty advanced a proposal last Wednesday to reorganize the District’s public school system and to place authority for all school decisions in the mayor’s office, according to his web site.

By John Lawless January 11, 2007