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Behind the Wheel

Well informed and politically charged, D.C. cabbies are more than a face behind the wheel.

By the September 15, 2005

Voices

Bagel Watch

Voice Fiction

By the September 15, 2005

Voices

Letters to the Editor

Pravin Rajan (SFS ‘07); Jay LaMonica (SFS ‘76)

By the September 15, 2005

Voices

Go away, I’m only sleeping

Carrying on – a rotating coluumn by voice senior staffers

By the September 15, 2005

Voices

I am so out of tune with you

Past and present music help a relationship grow

By the September 15, 2005

Editorials

Sweeping the Constituiton under the rug

The continuing detention of Jose Padilla without criminal charges is an indefensible affront to civil liberties and an unreasonable bow to the pressures of terror.

By the September 15, 2005

Editorials

Fencing in freedom

On Sunday’s anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the Pentagon sponsored the “America Supports You Freedom Walk.” Superficially a stirring patriotic display, the event became a crass attempt at memorializing that fateful day.

By the September 15, 2005

Editorials

Blocking up the driveway

More parking could become available in the Georgetown neighborhood. First, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission must make the right decision.

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Concert Calendar

Sunday, 9/18 – Wednesday, 9/28

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Longing for Schnitzel

You Taste Like A Burger – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Reykjav?k comes to Bethesda

Reykjav?k came to D.C. last Sunday, and they brought their muumuus.

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Future imperfect

The moment the end credits roll in a Wong Kar Wai film, audience members are momentarily silent. But at the end of 2046, one is left with a sense of aesthetically inspired awe and a consciousness of loss.

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Maher rules you out

When I bought my copy of Bill Maher’s New Rules, the clerk who rang me up assured me that the subject matter was “hysterical, yet poignant.”

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Getting Close-r to the gallery scene

As a person who is fairly ignorant of the D.C. art scene, the Chuck Close exhibit opening at the Adamson Gallery left me much more enlightened than one would expect.

By the September 15, 2005

Features

News from home

When Molly Jaye Moses finally heard from her family in Biloxi, Miss., her mother said they had found her car on Highway 90, just where they had left it.

By the September 8, 2005

News

Professor joins U.N.

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan nominated Georgetown professor John L. Esposito to the U.N. Alliance for Civilization High-Level Group last Friday.

By the September 8, 2005

News

The house that alumni built

For those wondering when the construction will finally end, the Alumni House on 36th and O streets will not officially open until Homecoming Weekend on Oct. 23.

By the September 8, 2005

News

Hurricane Georgetown

Saxa Politica – bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news

By the September 8, 2005

News

Ailing parents go national

Ailing Mothers and Fathers began as a support network for about twenty Georgetown students with sick or deceased parents.

By the September 8, 2005

News

The monk on Prospect St.

Overworked students find solace in meditation

By the September 8, 2005

News

Ride safe on the Metro this month

Metro riders will soon be ready for anything.

By the September 8, 2005

News

Ministry partners with nat’l org.

An Israeli band and platters of pastrami sandwiches celebrated the merger of Georgetown University’s Campus Ministry with the Jewish students’ foundation Hillel at a picnic Wednesday evening.

By the September 8, 2005

Features

D.C. Responds

A city known for its extensive emergency preparations, the District is no stranger to disaster-and no slouch about responding to it.

By the September 8, 2005

Features

Hilltop beckons displaced students

Not more than three days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, students from New Orleans, other parts of Louisiana and Mississippi had set up a table in Red Square to raise money for hurricane victims.

By the September 8, 2005

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s a shame when someone who is 42 years old is told that they are washed up, that they can’t hack it anymore and that they must give up all that they know to young men who were waddling around in diapers when they dominated the field.

By September 8, 2005