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On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

By the March 17, 2005

Editorials

A higher standard

The days of the stereotypically stupid student athlete may be drawing to an end.

By the March 3, 2005

Editorials

The University sells out

Choosing to sell the Wormley school shows that this administration still hasn’t learned the lessons of Georgetown history.

By the March 3, 2005

Editorials

The Middle East: A hotbed of … democracy?

Could it be that democracy has finally arrived in Lebanon?

By the March 3, 2005

Voices

The “nonsense” of gay marriage

“In the beginning, God created them male and female, male and female he created them” speaks the book of Genesis, the oldest book of the Bible.

By the March 3, 2005

Voices

Doin’ it for your country

This piece’s original intention was to valiantly defend gay marriage. Then I realized that’s what its opponents are expecting.

By the March 3, 2005

Voices

What would you do if you were Pope?

“What would I do if I were pope?” It’s a question we’ve all wrestled with at one point or another.

By the March 3, 2005

Voices

How I told my parents I got married

My parents’ visit to meet my wife’s parents should have been simple enough. It might have been, too, except for one small fact: They didn’t know that she is my wife.

By the March 3, 2005

Leisure

Les Choristes: the Dead Poet’s Boys Choir

Writing a review of the new French film Les Choristes is a difficult task; not only can I not pronounce a single name, the movie also seems to have borrowed every character and plot twist from at least five previous, probably better films.

By the March 3, 2005

Leisure

Epileptic a shaky, uncontrollable read

For a respite from reality, few things beat a good comic book.

By the March 3, 2005

Leisure

Nobody Knows why this movie was made

As far as movie premises go, it’s hard to beat the ingenuity of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows.

By the March 3, 2005

Leisure

Bloc Party, Silent Alarm, Vice

Hipsters everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. Just as they’re getting bored with the dance-rock of Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party is ready to take its place.

By the March 3, 2005

Leisure

The Evens, The Evens, Dischord

I met rock star, record producer, label head and certifiable legend Ian MacKaye at a show once in an abandoned school in Northeast D.C. during the wee hours of the morning.

By the March 3, 2005

Leisure

Chevre et al

You Taste Like a Burger – rotating column about eating leisurely

By the March 3, 2005

Editorials

By the Numbers

76 percent Percentage of Americans who support the public display of the Ten Commandments. 35 percent Percentage of non-Christian Americans who believe Jesus was the son of God 4 percent... Read more

By the March 3, 2005

Editorials

Direct Quote

“Wisdom and Guidance Edition”

By the March 3, 2005

Sports

Hoyas continue late-season slide at UConn, 83-64

The men’s basketball team continued their late-season slide Wednesday night, losing their fourth consecutive game to No.16 Connecticut .

By the March 3, 2005

Sports

Viewpoint: Rice still hot, not fried

What is next for Jerry Rice? After being released from the Seattle Seahawks earlier this week, that has become a question to which no one, Rice included, knows the answer.

By the March 3, 2005

Sports

Zip it, or I’ll break your hip

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

By the March 3, 2005

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Temple Head Coach John Chaney proved why he is still and always will be a hall of fame coach.

By March 3, 2005

Sports

Tourney Update

The four-game losing streak has been nothing short of a death sentence for the Hoyas.

By the March 3, 2005

Features

A Message from the Workers

Four Georgetown employees share their individual need for a living wage and charge the university with irresponsibility.

By the March 3, 2005

News

GU to sell ramshackle Wormley School

Rotting wooden floors, their centers collapsed straight through to the basement below, echo with the trickle of dripping water. Streetlights shine faintly through the cracks between the boards that cover the windows, bathing the chalkboards in an orange glow.

By the March 3, 2005

News

Laura Bush Headlines UNESCO Conference

“Leaders of higher education are uniquely positioned to offer insight and expertise on the challenges facing universal education,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introduction to the Conference on the Role of Higher Education in Achieving Education for All last Monday.

By the March 3, 2005

News

Contracted workers speak at Living Wage rally

The Living Wage Coalition united 24 student organizations in a rally in Red Square yesterday to express support for the effort to raise the “poverty-level” wages of subcontracted workers.

By the March 3, 2005