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Team America is no A-Team

OK, we get it: America is bad. We don’t care about the rest of the world. Bush is evil. Enough already.

By the October 21, 2004

Leisure

Mission of Burma escapes its certain fate

For a rock band to still be alive, let alone functional, 25 years after beginning is astounding.

By the October 21, 2004

Leisure

Ana Mendieta smears Hirshhorn with inspiration, blood

A film projects the image of a woman standing still with her arms spread against a wall, slowly sliding her body down and leaving red paint smears of what appears to be a birth canal.

By the October 21, 2004

Leisure

Pygmalion brings a girl up from the gutter

Theater patrons rush into the rain, frantically trying to find cabs and stay dry, while a modest flower girl attempts to earn enough change to see herself through the night.

By the October 21, 2004

Voices

“i am”

Who am I? We’ve all heard the question. But is it something we are all constantly questioning and redefining? For me, proclaiming who I am became a process of understanding my space and place in a social context, and finally giving myself the agency to choose how I identify as a white, lesbian woman.

By the October 14, 2004

Voices

A prince finds some answers

I finally made rice and beans.

By the October 14, 2004

Voices

How to save lives while lying down

Despite the curious spectacle of bulky men in spandex lifting heavy barbells while yelling in Greek or Chinese, I remained fixated on the steady stream of thick, red-black liquid oozing out of my right arm.

By the October 14, 2004

Features

The Medical Center is still struggling. Why should you care?

Due to Georgetown University medical center’s continuing losses, $28 million will go down the drain this fiscal year.

By the October 14, 2004

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Steroids have become somewhat of a comedic subject in our society today.

By October 14, 2004

Sports

Run ’til You’re Pretty

Just as the season has changed from summer to autum, and by D.C. standards, almost winter, the seasons of sports have changed as well.

By the October 14, 2004

Sports

Men’s soccer downs Rutgers, continues win streak

The Georgetown men’s soccer team extended its season-high winning streak to five games with a 3-2 win at Rutgers Wednesday.

By the October 14, 2004

Sports

Georgetown football wins; Homecoming weekend a success

No matter how many points the Georgetown football team put on the scoreboard Saturday, they couldn’t break the spirit of the Virginia Military Institute’s … band.

By the October 14, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

6 Number of people beatified by Pope John Paul II last week.

By the October 14, 2004

News

Automatic failure

Semiautomatic weapons may become legal for the first time in nearly 30 years in the District of Columbia.

By the October 14, 2004

News

Affirmative Reaction

Conservative author and speaker David Horowitz will discuss academic freedom on college campuses at 7 p.m. tonight in St. Mary’s hall.

By the October 14, 2004

Editorials

Lights, camera, inaction

Although most recent robberies in Georgetown have had students as victims, crime is a community problem.

By the October 14, 2004

News

Fresh Reps

Four first-year representatives were officially sworn into the Georgetown University Student Association Tuesday.

By the October 14, 2004

Editorials

Medical Center mishaps

The Georgetown University Medical Center lost $20 million in the last fiscal year.

By the October 14, 2004

News

Robbery on dark street, ANC decides to put out the lights

Two female students were assaulted Monday on local streets, marking the sixth violent crime reported to the Department of Public Safety this month and raising concerns about dim lighting in the area.

By the October 14, 2004

News

Roommate matching works like a charm

First-year Amanda Tomney’s (SFS ‘08) e-mail box was inundated with messages from anonymous admirers and potential roommates all summer long.

By the October 14, 2004

News

GU junior drowns in boating accident

Junior Robert Tremain (MSB ‘06) drowned early Friday morning after falling from a boat near the James Creek Marina in Southwest, D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

By the October 14, 2004

Leisure

Better than marriage: Chinese buses

Any Georgetown student who doesn’t live in some corner of the Northeast Corridor most likely has, at some point, gone to visit one who does.

By the October 14, 2004

Leisure

Critical Voices: Q And Not U, Power, Dischord

Since the release of its first album, No Kill No Beep Beep, in 2000, Q And Not U has steadily made a name for itself as one of D.C.’s best punk bands.

By the October 14, 2004

Leisure

Critical Voices: Frank Black, Frank Black Francis, 4AD

Charles Thompson devised the stage name of Black Francis from a combination of a few family names.

By the October 14, 2004

Leisure

Drag nuns in D.C.

Leather-clad dominatrixes, ultra-conservative Republicans and cross-dressing nuns come together this week for the 14th annual Reel Affirmations Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

By the October 14, 2004