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New York City, my Jerusalem

I stepped out of the bus into cold rain in Chinatown, New York City at 11 p.m. Friday night. It had already been a long night—six hours on a bus that had more rows of seats crammed into it than it was supposed to. All I wanted to do was get on the Q train, sit down in a place where I could move my legs, walk the six blocks to my row house in Brooklyn and get some sleep.

By the March 6, 2003

Sports

Hoyas beat Mountaineers, clinch tournament berth

With 5:15 remaining at West Virginia (13-14 overall, 4-11 Big East) Tuesday night, the Georgetown men’s basketball team (14-12 overall, 6-9 Big East) held a comfortable 63-53 lead. But with this year’s Hoyas, no lead is ever comfortable.

While the Mountaineers battled back to tie the game at 63, the Hoyas were able to hold on for a 69-67 win, due to clutch foul shooting, fortunate non-foul calls and a heads-up move by Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the March 6, 2003

News

Rebels with a cause

The D.C. City Council launched the issue of D.C. home rule into the national debate this week. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to move the District’s presidential primary to Jan. 13, 2004, positioning it as the first primary of the election season.

By the March 6, 2003

Voices

Home for the holidays

I have always looked on a bit surprised as those around me triumphantly declare that they are going home over a given weekend. I have never really felt comfortable at home—odd, given that home is supposed to be subjectively defined as where one is most comfortable, safe, familiar.

By the March 6, 2003

Sports

No. 3 Women’s lacrosse beats William and Mary

Baseball (1-2, 0-0 Big East)—As if having their home field turned into a parking lot and finishing last year with a 9-47 record wasn’t enough, Georgetown baseball has started off this season playing only three of their scheduled 14 games to date due to inclement weather.

By the March 6, 2003

Voices

What would Jesus do?

Millions of dollars have been made from selling T-shirts, wristbands and bumper stickers inscribed with the letters “WWJD” short for “What Would Jesus Do?” A recent ad campaign aimed at curbing the use of gas-guzzling SUVs implied that Jesus would drive a more fuel-efficient vehicle out of his love for the environment and rhetorically asked, “What would Jesus drive?” Since the American public and marketing firms have poured millions of dollars into the idea of what Jesus would do, it is sensible to explore this question when we stand at the precipice of a major war led by a self-proclaimed Christian whose outbursts of evangelicalism are more frequent than Bob Dole’s erections.

By the March 6, 2003

Sports

Patrick Ewing for Head Coach

As a young sports fanatic growing up in Brooklyn, I had many New York sports heroes. Don Mattingly, Mark Messier, Lawrence Taylor … the list goes on. One man however, stood above them all, literally and figuratively. This man was a 7-foot-tall Jamaican basketball player out of Georgetown University.

By the March 6, 2003

Leisure

Ninjas! Ninjas! Ninjas!

The state of online, student-made ninja films is deplorable. There, someone needed to say it. Luckily, we have The Tenchu Reel Ninja Film Contest, found at www.ninjafilmcontest.com, a competition sponsored by Activision which features some of the best homemade ninja films by college-age directors around.

By the March 6, 2003

Sports

Name game

Yes, I know corporate stadium names are old news. Corporate America sucked the life and tradition out of America’s Pastime (among other less-official pastimes) long ago, and I frankly never really cared. The Enron Field fiasco was pretty funny, after all.

But that was before Jerry Reinsdorf got wise to all this.

By the March 6, 2003

Leisure

‘Hearts of Oak’ full of heart, good music, lacks oak

As unrelated as a British naval hymn and the Ghanaian national soccer team might sound, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists allude to both in the title of their latest release Hearts of Oak. The band appears clad in lime green soccer jerseys on the cover, paying an oblique tribute to the “Hearts of Oak,” a poor Ghanaian team that went on to win international soccer championships.

By the March 6, 2003