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Vernon Macklin punches ticket

Heading into the off-season, Georgetown basketball looked stronger than it had been in some time.

Sports

Disney on ice

Hittin’ the back nine – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

What are the differences between Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong?

News

GERMS’ ailing ambulances

Medical services in talks with University for new unit

News

The ballpark gets a builder

Clark Construction contracted to build Nationals’ home

News

Meal plans made mandatory for sophomores

Sophomores, if you thought your days at Leo’s were over, think again.

News

The Tombs gets a facelift

After 20 years of fending off the Washington humidity, the Tombs needed a new air conditioner.

News

Henle floods

Several Henle residents were forced to leave their apartments for several nights after a broken sprinkler flooded their apartments Monday.

News

Welcome to Qatar

President John DeGioia gave a long-distance welcome to the newest class in the School of Foreign Service on Saturday. The 26 students of the Qatar campus’ first incoming class hail from Bangladesh to the Philippines, as well as parts of the Middle East.

News

Season opener

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

Editorials

MPD putters along

Instead of preventing car theft, the Metropolitan Police Department has allowed a potentially successful program to stall because of technical problems and a fear of lawsuits.

Editorials

An effective form of protest

Cindy Sheehan has been working to bring the troops back from Iraq since her son was killed in April 2004. But nearly 20 days ago, she took a stand that attracted the attention of the world.

Editorials

A new look for the Corp in ’05

Vital Vittles, Movie Mayhem and Uncommon Grounds have made major changes over the summer, both in their facilities and their practices.

Sports

Back to work: Hoyas prepare for Bucknell

Like an eager first-year, this year’s football team is looking forward to the season that lies ahead, excited about the great things to come.

Sports

Georgetown ranked 4th in expanded Big East

The Hoyas men’s soccer team is looking to improve on last season’s 11-8-2 record, which ended with a heartbreaking 1-0 overtime loss to Seton Hall in the Big East semifinals.

Sports

Hoya wins gold

Andrew Campbell, the senior captain of the men’s sailing team, spent a good part of his summer overseas contending in the Laser European Championships and most recently, the Summer World University Games.

Sports

All quiet on the Western Front

Hittin’ the back nine – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

When it comes to predictions, I usually just like shaking the 8-ball and leaving it at that.

Leisure

War journalism in black and white

War correspondent Joe Sacco uses a very unconventional medium to examine how the effects of war linger after the fighting ends: graphic nonfiction.

Leisure

Lezhur Ledger: Getting Beat with the Fugly Stick

The definition provided for “fugly” reads: “frightfully ugly; of or pertaining to something beyond the boundaries of normal unattractiveness. Example: “That ‘Kabbalists Do It Better’ trucker hat is fugly.”

Leisure

Cardiff hijacks your senses on the Mall

Combine that disconnection from reality with the quiet peace of a guided meditation, and you get a rough idea of the sensations delivered by Words drawn in water, a new audio tour of select sites on the National Mall available at the Hirshhorn Museum through Oct. 30.

Leisure

The other Chi-Town

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

Leisure

Kanye West, Late Registration

Critical Voices

Leisure

New Pornographers, Twin Cinema

Critical Voices

Voices

Dance in decline

Younger generation misses out on a treasured pasttime