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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Brief encounters with luminary pundits

The other night I went to hear Martin Amis, one of my favorite authors, read at a Washington bookstore. hoping I would be able to suppress my inner stalker. I admire his novels, his cultural and literary criticisms, his examinations of history, and of course his contribution to Mars Attacks!, one of the most brilliant movies of the ‘90s not disgraced by the later atrocities of O.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

The FTAA and state repression in Miami

Last week in Miami, tens of thousands protested the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement. Trade ministers from 34 countries in the Western hemisphere assembled to discuss the proposed extension of NAFTA into the Caribbean and Central and Southern America.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Letters to the Editor

“Distorted depiction of Japanese TV programming” I was disappointed that the Voice printed such a poorly written article with no apparent point besides insulting Japanese people and all with an interest in Japanese society (Nov. 20, Japanese basic cable round-up).

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes mistakes seriously. We correct all errors of substance in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible. In”Finding the Perfect Sound” (Cover, Nov. 20), we printed that Professor Robert Fair received a PhD from NYU.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Detroit to D.C. and back

VOICES BY ROB ANDERSON Over the course of five days, 43 men and women had been killed, 7,231 people had been arrested, 2,509 buildings had been destroyed, $36 million in insured property had been lost—and Detroit had changed forever.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Turnovers end disappointing season

SPORTS BY CAMERON SMITH The Georgetown football team completed a disappointing season in a game that was emblematic of the troubles they encountered throughout their games: a 45-16 conference loss at Bucknell.

By halftime, the Hoyas had fallen behind 24-3, and could not recover enough momentum or points to salvage much from the game.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Women hoops keep buzzer beaters going

Not to be outdone by the men’s one point road win against Penn State, the Georgetown Women’s basketball squad won a scrappy road game in similar style on Saturday in Durham NH. The Hoyas defeated the University of New Hampshire Wildcats 61-60 thanks to a basket by Rebekkah Brunson with only three seconds remaining in the game.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Lions, Tigers, Hornets, oh my!

SPORTS BY CAMERON SMITH The heart-attack Hoyas are at it again. In only the season’s second game, Georgetown waited until the last second, literally, to take a lead, and eventually prevailed 79-78 over the Penn State Nittany Lions at State College, Pa. The early season match up against the perennial Big Ten cellar dwellers highlighted the early season schedule, in which the team has clawed its way to a 5-0 record.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Sports Sermon

Soviet era nuclear war has finally met its match. Move over communist Russia and god-fearing U.S., here come the Red Sox and Yankees. That’s right folks, while teams like the Arizona Diamondbacks and Milwaukee Brewers, and even the playoff perennial Oakland A’s are cutting payroll like lumber, the Sox and the Boss are opening their wallets and bringing in the biggest guns available.

By Cameron Smith December 4, 2003