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Are you there, God? It’s me, Nathaniel

VOICES BY SCOTT MATTHEWS Boy, there sure are a lot of Starbucks around! It seems like everywhere you go there’s another Starbucks! I mean, how many Starbuc … “Damn it!” I yell as I slam my fist down in anger and frustration, accidentally hitting a cactus that just happened to be there.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

Mary Kate, Ashley

Attention all males! Only 150 days, 3 hours, and 29 seconds ‘til the Olsen twins are legal! Since this changes very little for the majority of your sex lives, I’d like to make a proposition: stop coveting the bodies of small children and look at yourselves! Fantasizing about legally unattainable girls is preventing you from any hope you ever had for a real relationship.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Eleven reasons to remember ’03

1. The Meadowlands, The Wrens, Absolutely Kosher New Jersey based indie rockers return from seven years of silence with a masterpiece proving that the guitar is alive and kicking. Complex melodies ranging from quiet, intricate beauty to sublime hurricanes of overdriven six-string glory flow together into a single, cohesive opus of the slow decay of suburban nine to five life.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Visions screens political film

Over the summer, my hometown newspaper ran an article about the lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report that Bush’s constant message of Saddam Hussein’s threat to the U.S. and the world was essentially fabricated outraged me, but I was more upset by the story’s placement.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

We do like them apples

LEISURE BY PRIYA BAPAT Mask and Bauble’s third production of the season, The Apple Cart, is an updated take on playwright George Bernard Shaw’s vision of the future.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Think Money

The family holiday gathering is the perfect setting for all Hoyas preparing for a life in politics and diplomacy. Along with dry small talk with distant relatives and the forced laughs masking “that thing we don’t mention in front of uncle Jim,” there is the inevitable period of questoning.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Women’s Center director to begin

The Georgetown University Women’s Center will welcome Dr. Jill Holmes Robinson as its new Director on Feb. 1. Robinson, who holds a doctorate from the University of Virginia, specializes in university counseling and student affairs administration, and has experience in counseling issues pertaining specifically to women.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Welfare research brings professor acclaim

Research is hardly a glamorous field, but Assistant Professor Carolyn J. Hill has made it a little more interesting. The professor at Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute was recognized recently by a committee of peers for her research on welfare-to-work programs in the United States.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Dean captures symbolic D.C. primary

Presidential candidate Howard Dean claimed victory in Washington’s non-binding Democratic primary on Tuesday, in an event attended only by the most diehard of Georgetown Democrats. The organizers of the presidential primary, the first in the 2004 election, described it as a partial success in drawing national attention to D.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Spanish President draws a crowd

NEWS BY DAN JOYCE Spanish President Jos? Mar?a Aznar proposed a bold new economic alliance between the European Union and the United States in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Twin triumphs for GU expansion plans

NEWS BY MIKE DEBONIS AND SHANTHI MANIAN Last month authorities handed Georgetown two significant victories in its continuing battle for expansion.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

The Back Page

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By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Housing development’s leftovers

Ever since I can remember, I’ve gone to my grandmother’s house in Rhode Island for Thanksgiving. Family and friends come together for a celebration and non-stop eating with leftovers for three days. As kids, my brother, sisters, and I always escaped the hedonistic feeding frenzy to go out and explore the woods behind Grandma’s house.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Two questions for conservatives

Can you close your eyes and picture a scarier, more dangerous America? An America in which the ideas of The Nation or Marx’s Kapital had won the day, a world in which leftism had gone so far, become so extreme, that electing even a moderate conservative to national office proved impossible?

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

The real state of the union

VOICES BY BILL CLEVELAND Tuesday night Georgetown students gathered for “The Real State of the Union,” a panel discussion with several writers for the Atlantic Monthly.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Sports Sermon: UCONN

OK, everyone call off the rest of the season. It’s time to name a champ. UCONN is better than anyone else in the country is. Far better. In fact they may be the best college hoops team to come along in a decade. Now, the serm doesn’t want to curse them into losses, (remember that Fear Da’ Frogs article?), but we don’t think that’s possible.

By Cameron Smith January 15, 2004

Brunson, Hoyas Hopeful

Led by the outstanding play of senior forward Rebekkah Brunson, over the winter recess Georgetown’s women’s basketball team emerged as a legitimate contender for the NCAA tournament while the rest of the student body vacillated between listlessly watching television and attempting to “make out” with high school crushes.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Features

The Kennedys’ Jesuit

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Journalist Thomas Maier’s The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, which chronicles the Kennedys through the lens of their Irish-Catholic roots, received significant press when it was released late last year because of its revealing portrait of Jackie Kennedy’s deteriorating mental health in the spring of 1964, after her husband’s assassination.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Curling For Columbine: Rocket Home

Retirement can be a funny thing. When a plastic surgeon retires, for example, that’s it. No more boob jobs, facelifts, or tummy tucks. They sit home, collect some money and dedicate hours to become crossword puzzle aficionados.

Yet when many star athletes announce their retirement, it’s like a Georgetown student saying they aren’t going to drink for a while after spring break because they need to recover … right.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Potential Unmet with Current Hoyas

Just by listening to the Georgetown match up against the top ranked University of Connecticut, one could feel the stark contrast between programs. The Huskies continued their run of blowing out opponents after defeating a quality Oklahoma squad, while the Hoyas lost their third straight conference game.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004