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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Leisure

Solaris remade into a bad film

In a film where a brief shot of George Clooney’s ass is the warmest thing going, something must be awry. After doing a drug movie, a sex movie, a caper flick, even one with J. Lo, Steven Soderbergh has ventured into the realm of oblique Russian cinema with a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris.

By the December 5, 2002

Editorials

3,000 sheets to the wind

A war is being waged on the Georgetown campus, a war for the hearts and minds of students, a war over, well, war. In the weeks before a Thanksgiving cease-fire the action intensified with new rounds of flyers fired off daily by Georgetown Peace Action and the College Republicans.

By the December 5, 2002

News

GIA, JSA organize Jewish solidarity rally

Students gathered in Red Square on Monday, Nov. 25 in response to the recent remarks of Norman Finkelstein, a Holocaust historian who spoke on campus Nov. 18, and Professor Hisam Sharabi, a Professor Emeritus who made controversial remarks in a speech in Lebanon.

By the December 5, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

OK, ladies and gentlemen, let’s play Six Degrees of Sports Separation, Thanksgiving Edition. We’re taking suggestions from the audience. Anyone? Where should we start?

Yes, you there. The man with no penis. Yes, you in the Kansas sweatshirt.

“Can you talk about Kirk Hinrich?”

Ah, the elfish one himself.

By the December 5, 2002

News

More students choosing two majors

The number of Georgetown students with double majors has increased by over 150 percent since 1997. A recent article in The New York Times cited Georgetown as one of a number of schools that represent a growing but not necessarily desirable trend in double majoring.

By the December 5, 2002

Leisure

Strokes finish too quickly, fail to satisfy

The Strokes’ concert last Tuesday was a safe bet for D.C. kids with a curfew: By 11:30 p.m. ushers were already yelling for the hangers-on to clear the building. After playing a 50-minute set with no encore, the Strokes had cleared D.A.R. Constitution Hall in record time.

By the December 5, 2002

News

Money woes for Metro

There’s good news and bad news about the future of transportation in the District. The good news is that the Washington Metro Area Transit Association plans to spent $12.2 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand Metro services in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

By the November 21, 2002

Leisure

Holy musical, Bat Boy!

You walk in to a large warehouse-ish room. It’s all splintery wooden beams and black paint, huge red-and-black bat faces and unfinished walls. Smoke floats overhead. The slight beat of a drum echoes in the background, and bare risers surround a small stage.

By the November 21, 2002

Sports

Curtin wins Big East Rookie of the Year

First-year back Jeff Curtin was named Big East Rookie of the Year last Thursday, the first Hoya to win the award since 1988. Curtin has been the quiet defensive workhorse of the team amassing player of the week awards and helping the Hoyas turn around their season, which culminated in a trip to the Big East Tournament semifinals for the third time in five years.

By the November 21, 2002

Leisure

Northerners deliver two snoozers

The dashing hero of a Russian romantic novel poses a question to his traveling companion: “It was the French, I suppose, who made boredom fashionable?” “No, the English,” the companion replies. Surprisingly, both were wrong. Neither the Francos or the Anglos live in a locale quite northerly enough to facilitate truly mind-numbing boredom.

By the November 21, 2002