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Voices

Carrying On: Pondering mortality over sweet potatoes

The food grew cold as my family stared quietly at one another around the dinner table.

Voices

A traditional Swedish-Japanese Thanksgiving

Being a Japanese-Swedish combo family means American traditions such as Thanksgiving should be meaningless.

Voices

Everything’s better in Japanese

I can’t read that sentence because I do not read, speak or understand Japanese.

News

Georgetown Ukrainians contemplate election

Over 4,800 miles away from a homeland mired in political crisis, Ukrainian students at Georgetown are awaiting the outcome of a struggle over their country’s leadership that may leave them without a unified nation to go home to.

News

Georgetown AIDS Coalition commemorates World AIDS Day

There are 40 million people worldwide who suffer from HIV/AIDS, and the numbers are on the rise, with five million new infections each year.

News

Angel Tree project promotes local literacy

This year the Christmases of children living in low income areas of D.C. might be a little brighter thanks to Georgetown’s Angel Tree book drive.

Sports

One more and that’s a streak, Hoyas win two straight

After losing the season opener to Temple at the MCI Center last Monday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team rebounded to win its last two games.

News

Living culturally

The American Culture and Politics Living and Learning Community that will debut in fall 2005 bears the mark of Stanford University’s integration of student and faculty life.

News

GUSA bylaws approved

The Georgetown University Student Assembly passed a series of much-anticipated changes to campaign bylaws Tuesday night, bringing to a close a process that has lasted three Assembly meetings.

Sports

Women’s hoops has mixed results to open season

The Georgetown women’s basketball team yielded mixed results in their last three outings.

Sports

The ballots are counted, and the winners are . . .

Cross-Country All-Americans Rod Koborsi, ‘05 – Koborsi’s tenth place finish at the NCAA Championships earned him All-American honors. Nicole Lee, ‘05 – Lee’s 19th place finish at the NCAA Championships... Read more

News

On the Record with George Packer

Two months after President Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq, New Yorker staff writer George Packer walked the dusty streets of Baghdad. Two trips and three articles later, Packer has witnessed the evolution of the postwar climate.

Sports

Just hit mute

It has become a sad, yet common occurrence for the NFL that players’ shenanigans between games dominate the news more than their play on the field.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Welcome to a special Bowl Championship Series edition of Blind Date.

News

Sacrifice fly

Baseball’s imminent arrival in D.C. is practically preordained-the mayor and majority of the D.C. Council support it.

Editorials

Home improvement

For sophomores and juniors who plan to live on-campus next year, the wait to choose their housing is over.

Editorials

Red light special

A bill to extend the expiration date of cameras on red lights in several Northern Virginia communities was rejected on Monday by the Virginia House of Delegates.

Editorials

The Funny Third – You’ve got the fever, we’ve got the cure

This week a star-studded coalition of health-related campus organizations surprised the University by coming out with a strong anti-Influenza policy.

Editorials

By the numbers and Direct quote

90 Number of American casualties in Iraq in the first 17 days of November. 5.53 Average number of soldiers killed per day in November. 1211 Number of American soldiers killed... Read more

Sports

Will there be a second Thompson dynasty?

Upon his arrival Thompson immediately sought to create an environment that would signal how different 2004 would be.

Sports

Behind the scenes with Bill Shapland

In 1973, Georgetown looked nothing like it does today.

Leisure

What in Tarnation could be more depressing?

Jonathan Caouette’s debut film Tarnation, acclaimed for being the first film made entirely with Apple computer program iMovie, details Caouette’s troubling upbringing and the continuous decline of his small-town Texas family.

Leisure

Sideways: divorce, depression and pinot noir

What do I have in common with a middle-aged balding man from California?

Leisure

There’s more shakin’ with the South Asians

Every year since its inception nine years ago, Rangila has sold out Gaston Hall. Is the show worth the hype?

Leisure

Early Christmas

Walking down M Street with a friend on Sunday afternoon on my way to Barnes & Noble, I found myself with an extra spring in my step, a nicer demeanor towards strangers and a particular attention to small children and dogs of all shapes and sizes.