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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

Voices

The young man and the sea

“So, how exactly do we get back?” I stared at the slowly diminishing strip of beach trees where our friends had shrunk to sand-grain size and tried not to think about Sarah’s question.

Voices

The lonesome crowded west

Chama, N.M. and Silverton, Colo. are train towns. Their entire economies depend on attracting riders to their historic narrow gauge railroads, which climb high through the San Juan Mountains.

Voices

NSO: Non-Sequitur Orientation

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

News

The new face of the MSB

As the new dean of the McDonough School of Business, George Daly hopes to construct a compelling and distinctive identity for the school in coming years.

News

Obituaries

Georgetown mourns the loss of three students who passed away this summer.

News

New year brings campus changes

Students ready for a break from the dust, noise, and detours created by the construction on the Harbin Field multi-sport facility and the Davis Performing Arts Center will have to keep waiting.

News

Eat faster & finer at GU

New dining options for the Georgetown campus are on the way, offering students greater variety and a taste of fast food.

News

Panda born in National Zoo

On July 9, 2005, a baby panda cub took Washington’s National Zoo by storm.

Although zookeepers chose not to approach the male cub for weighing or measurement for several weeks, press outlets estimated the white, hairless cub at about the size of a stick of butter.

News

Abnormal psych

Anybody who teaches Abnormal Psychology will tell you that students taking the course often suspect they suffer from the disorders they study.

Features

Art In Motion

Those passing by don’t give it a second look. It is unmarked but for four thin, silver numbers next to its light green door: 1515.