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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

Free Unclassifieds

Shazam! Alrightalrightalrightalrightalright! Ted Koppel is one of the beautiful people. Bailey-Wear shorts. Do it, do it. Bonus suggests culottes. Kak-Adopt a pigeon. Everyone here’s doing it. Laura your hair looks beautiful. What’s cooler than bein’ cool? Liquid nitrogen! Submit your unclassifieds to 413 Leavey or Uncommon Grounds or e-mail them to thevoice@georgetown.

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

Sore Turkeys

When did it happen? When did we get so old? Waking up the day after Thanksgiving, I felt like an 85-year old man coming off hip surgery. After one pick-up football game!

Every year my buddies and I come home for Thanksgiving break looking forward to free food, lots of sleep and our yearly football game.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Former basketball star shot in Southeast D.C.

NEWS BY ROB ANDERSON Victor Page, a former Georgetown University men’s basketball star, widely regarded to be one of the most talented players from Washington DC, remains in critical condition after being shot three times last Tuesday afternoon.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Jesuit apologizes to Camelot

Reacting to criticism from the Kennedy family, the head of Georgetown’s Jesuit community announced last Wednesday that the University library had publicly exhibited the correspondence between a Georgetown priest and Jacqueline Kennedy “by mistake” and said that he had apologized to the family on behalf of the University.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Canal Rd. improvements begin

Entering the Georgetown campus from Canal Road is about to become safer and more convenient, University officials say, thanks to a construction project set to begin after more than two decades of planning. The Federal Highway Administration, which is managing the project, plans to begin construction on a new intersection and access road by early spring.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

‘Camelot’: King Arthur, again

LEISURE BY KATHYRN BRAND When one thinks of King Arthur, dueling and damsels, rather than singing and dancing, are among the first things that come to mind. Immortalized as old texts, a bedtime story and even a Disney animated cartoon, the Knights of the Round Table meet the stage in the musical Camelot.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Free speech but not hate speech

The Supreme Court’s recent decision on sodomy is a “Moral 9/11,” according to flyers distributed by students not affiliated with Georgetown in Red Square on Nov. 20. The student was removed from campus by the Department of Public Safety.

After the incident, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson reaffirmed the University’s commitment to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community in a broadcast e-mail.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Successful designer calls for social responsibility

“You can’t drive a car while looking in the rearview mirror and that goes for the fashion business, too. It’s moving so fast you always have to be looking forward,” said fashion tycoon Kenneth Cole when he visited Georgetown University late last month.

Nevertheless, Cole spent plenty of time looking back while writing his recent book, published on the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Cole Productions Inc.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Dulles woes

To me, Dulles International Airport seems almost mythical. I have never been on a flight to or from it, and I don’t even really know where it’s located. In fact, I gained most of my knowledge about it in the movie Die Hard 2: Die Harder.

I’ve never been to Dulles Airport because there’s no way to get there.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

The Atmosphere encounter

Picture this: you suddenly find yourself sitting on a couch next to your all-time favorite musician, whom you never imagined you would get to meet. You’ve been listening to his albums for years, and suddenly you’re having a conversation with him. He’s calling you by your name: “Hey Abby, pass me another Corona?” I am hanging out with Slug, also known as Sean Daley, before his Atmosphere show at the Black Cat.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003