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Sports

Curling for Columbine: Panthers’ Pen

Ahhh, one of the greatest weeks of any sports fans’ year is upon us. Super Bowl week brings annual speculation, pompous declarations, and over-hype of a game that only occasionally (last in 2002) lives up to the hype.

But this year is different. Both the Patriots and Panthers are team-oriented and use consistently intricate but simple game plans to diffuse powerful opposing offenses.

By the January 29, 2004

Editorials

The new town-gown order

Earlier this month, a sign displaying “Read Orwell” adorned the Virginia approach to the Key Bridge. Clearly Georgetown University’s neighbors have taken the graffiti artist’s advice: They’ve been reading their Orwell, and they like what they read.

Recently, members of the Alliance for Local Living proposed that neighborhood residents take personal initiative and videotape what they deem to be inappropriate student behavior off campus.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

‘Beyond Therapy’ digs deeper

LEISURE BY JENNY MATTHEWS Beyond Therapy is a cynical comedy that tells the story of a man and a woman who meet through a personal ad. Playwright Christopher Durang uses the relationship between Bruce and Prudence and their respective therapists to offer a mean but comedic perspective on the limited usefulness of therapy.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

The Unicorns are people too

February and March are shaping up to be a couple of excellent months for concerts in D.C. The Shins are playing two shows at the Black Cat, Super Furry Animals have an evening at the 9:30 Club, Atmosphere is coming back and there are a few band-packed weekends in March that will make indie-rock fans go crazy.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

Daniel Wallace–catch of the day

Daniel Wallace, author of the New York Times best-seller Big Fish, the inspiration for the recent film starring Ewan McGregor, is neither a Southern writer nor a Playboy bunny: “the two titles are similar in that they are more limiting than anything-automatically as a Southern writer, and as a Playboy bunny, there are certain expectations of you,” said Wallace.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

Travel ‘Through the Lens’

It’s never easy to summarize one hundred years. For National Geographic, a magazine translated into 20 languages and read by over 40 million yearly, this task involved paring down the 10.5 million published and unpublished images in the society’s archive-a priceless record of world history-into 250 images.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

Get Lost

This past Saturday, three friends and I set out on a quest to find the District’s best record stores. By “quest” I mean we had a list of five shops located on various state, numbered and lettered streets. By “best” I mean establishments other than national chains such as FYE.

By the January 29, 2004

News

Georgetown avoids RIAA subpoena

NEWS BY LAUREN TANICK Georgetown University has escaped the latest round of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group for civil liberties on the Internet.

By the January 29, 2004

News

University drops apparel contract

NEWS BY VANESSA MACHIR The discovery of workers’ rights violations in a Lands’ End factory in El Salvador prompted Georgetown University not to renew its contract with the company this year. Lands’ End, whose contract with Georgetown expires this January, was responsible for manufacturing apparel bearing the Georgetown University logo.

By the January 29, 2004

News

New head honchos at the Corp

Students of Georgetown, Inc. is under new management. The Corp announced the appointment of three new chief executives for 2004 on Friday.

Christine Werner (MSB ‘05), Brian McGovern (CAS ‘05), and Keith McNamera (MSN ‘06) will assume the respective positions of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer.

By the January 29, 2004