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Lively life conference

This past Sunday, a speaker at the Georgetown University Right to Life seventh Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life caused an unexpected stir among attendees with controversial rhetoric.

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New chaplain joins Hilltop

Casimir Stroick joined the Georgetown community as Copley Hall’s new fourth-floor chaplain at the beginning of this semester.

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STAND lies down

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur will hold a “die-in” today at 12:40 to raise awareness about the Sudanese genocide.

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Falcon Virgo

U.S. air forces conducted a series of low-flying defense exercises over Washington airspace early Tuesday morning.

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Civil unions

City on a Hill – bi-weekly column on D.C news and politics

Voices

Learning the moral of Morales

Why you should care about the Bolivian election

Voices

I like my music a little on the trashy side

In defense of country music

Voices

A summer evening in Brooklyn Heights

It was one of the hottest days I had witnessed in New York since my arrival, during the summer of 2005.

Voices

Saudiana: _Syriana_ as non-fiction

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Features

The Best Movies & Music of 2005

2005 was a good year for music and movies, and we’ve put together a list of our favorites to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

Leisure

James Bond meets Bad Santa

“Two things that taste better in Mexico: margaritas and cock.” That is the kind of shocking but funny line that perfectly captures what Julian Nobel in The Matador is all about.

Leisure

Wallace’s _Lobster_ traps readers

It would not be an overstatement for me to say that David Foster Wallace is the most important, or at least smartest, writer working today.

Leisure

_The Trestle_ is all water under the bridge

After watching the play, the audience might be thankful that this is the first time the two groups have worked together.

Features

Cat Power, _The Greatest_

Critical Voices

Leisure

No dress is an island

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about dressing leisurely

Editorials

Davis Center fails to play to students

The Royden B. Davis Performing Arts Center opened to great fanfare last semester after $30 million and a delay of several months. Students hoping to finally see their favorite student productions on a larger stage, however, are set for a sore disappointment.

Editorials

Residents give red light to SafeRides

The Department of Public Safety took strong action last semester to improve the University’s SafeRides program—but local residents have sought to turn this into yet another needless conflict between the University and the neighborhood.

Editorials

Always low prices, never responsibility

Last Thursday, the Maryland legislature overrode Governor Robert Ehlrich’s veto and passed a bill requiring Wal-Mart stores to offer affordable insurance to its estimated 17,000 employees, setting a precedent for other states.

News

Burleith bristles at SafeRides

Local residents express concern over additional shuttles

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Student wins Dream scholarship

Georgetown student keeps Dr. King’s legacy alive

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Prison for student protestor

A Georgetown student faces up to six months in federal prison for trespassing on a military base during a November protest in Georgia.

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D.C. bans smoking

Georgetown restaurant managers remain unfazed after Mayor Anthony Williams signed the District of Columbia smoking ban earlier this month.

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Diplomacy for democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice discussed the Bush administration’s transformational diplomacy initiative, the U.S. effort to help countries govern themselves democratically, yesterday in Georgetown’s O’Donovan Hall.

Sports

Hoyas elude Bulls’ angry charge

In the midst of the toughest part of their schedule, the Georgetown men’s basketball team eked out their third conference win against Big East newcomer South Florida in front of 5,071 fans at the MCI Center Tuesday night.