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Love, war and that hot miserable son

It used to be that when they got back to the barracks, he would sit and watch the sun rise. The hot, miserable sun that turned everything evil. That sun would come up and bring with it all that they were against, or at least were supposed to be against.

By the February 10, 2005

Leisure

M.I.A., Arular

Critical Voices: Dance Edition

By the February 10, 2005

Leisure

LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem

Critical Voices: Dance Edition Part II

By the February 10, 2005

Leisure

Sex and Candy

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

By the February 10, 2005

Leisure

Lezhur Ledger: Movie Spoilers

Movies are a great way to forget about how miserable your own life is, but who really has time to get away for two hours?

By the February 10, 2005

Editorials

By the numbers

$8.8 Billion Amount of money still unaccounted for by the American-controlled Coalition Provisional Government in Iraq since its termination last June. $3 Billion Amount of money cut from non-military programs,... Read more

By the February 10, 2005

Editorials

Direct Quotes – The Homosexual Agenda Edition

Reactions to a gay-themed play performed in a Virginia public school:

By the February 10, 2005

Sports

Hoyas win third in a row over WVU, 71-67

The Georgetown women’s basketball team extended their winning streak to three games with a win over West Virginia Saturday at McDonough Gymnasium.

By the February 10, 2005

Sports

No-Fun-League

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

By the February 10, 2005

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Mid-Season Swan Song (To the tune of The Game’s ‘Hate it or Love it’)

By February 10, 2005

News

Prospect Street fire caused by candle, cigarettes

New information has surfaced on the basement fire that destroyed 3318 Prospect St. last October and resulted in the death of Daniel Rigby (MSB ‘05).

By the February 10, 2005

News

Sigma Phi Epsilon to reach Georgetown

On a campus where social fraternities are prohibited and banned from receiving University funding, the impending formation of a Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter is momentous.

By the February 10, 2005

News

Students, staff differ on dining hall quality

A year and a half after Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall replaced New South Cafeteria as Georgetown’s main food venue, a striking difference of opinion remains between the administrators who manage the facility and the students who use it.

By the February 10, 2005

News

GU student to be MTV-U Darfur correspondent

Nate Wright (CAS ‘06) will be one of three student correspondents for an MTV-U documentary on the Darfur region of Sudan, which has been ravished by genocide and internal ethnic divisions.

By the February 10, 2005

News

Institutionalized Valentines?

Saxa Politica – Bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news and politics

By the February 10, 2005

News

News Hits

Tsunami relief gala and Tajik Dips at Georgetown

By the February 10, 2005

News

Students Protest for Living Wage in Red Square

By the February 10, 2005

Editorials

The last Iraq ed we’ll write (’til next week)

It’s taken almost two years. It’s cost the lives of 1,436 Americans and wounded thousands. Finally, though, Iraqis voted and the world celebrated. Unfortunately, this euphoria is not yet warranted.

By the February 3, 2005

Editorials

What’s a soldier worth?

The Bush administration has begun to see how much it has shortchanged those who serve, but they have not yet done enough for our servicemen.

By the February 3, 2005

Voices

When wanting to be right is very wrong

Because being against the war doesn’t mean being against the peace

By the February 3, 2005

Editorials

Forgetting Freedoms

Have you ever caught yourself thinking that the First Amendment goes too far?

By the February 3, 2005

Voices

Making better writers, one paper at a time

I remember hyperventilating. I know my heart stopped at least once or twice.

By the February 3, 2005

Voices

How I learned how much I love my sister

And nearly killed all her pets along the way

By the February 3, 2005

Voices

Did Georgetown turn me into a snob?

“I’m glad you’re back,” my then 16-year-old sister sighed as she threw her leg over the arm of our old green couch and settled down to watch a movie.

By the February 3, 2005

Editorials

By the numbers

2042 Year President Bush predicted that Social Security funding will be exhausted in his 2005 State of the Union address. 1988 Year then-Congressional Candidate Bush predicted that Social Security would... Read more

By the February 3, 2005