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Grieco?I love you; why do you hate me?Janet Reno

Jennifer Ernst?You are my hero! You are the wind beneath my wings.?The Brown Committee Admissions Dept.

If Uncommon Grounds opens a stand in Lauinger, they had better offer 40-cent coffee, 24 hours a day, because otherwise I’ll just stick to the vending machine coffee.

Sports

Sexiest, shmexiest

And the show has reached a new low. Just when you thought that sports couldn’t get any more about media hype and less about actual ability, it did, and it has been helped along by none other then the world’s most famous sports network, ESPN. This month, US magazine along with ESPN announced the World’s Sexiest Athletes Contest, which will culminate in a two-hour awards special on Jan.

News

Governor supports profiling

U.S. airport security should abandon random checks in favor of stricter searches of people who fit the description of terrorists, said Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating (CAS ‘66). On Wednesday, Keating shared his experience with terrorism in Oklahoma as well as his views on U.

Sports

Get Carter

I write about baseball. I live in America. So why can’t I be one of the Baseball Writers of America? It strikes me as hard to believe that there are only 472 people in all of America who are “Baseball Writers.” After spending long hours working in a deli this summer and taking every free minute I had to read the baseball columns in all four of the New York papers, it seemed like there must have been hundreds of baseball writers in the Big Apple alone.

Leisure

Local theater celebrates German cinema

The casual American moviegoer’s knowledge of German cinema most often begins and ends with films such as Das Boot (1981) and Run Lola Run (Lola rennt, 1998). While both films merit viewing, a thriving German film industry exists beyond Franka Potente’s shock of flame-red hair in Lola and Das Boot’s boatload of doomed submariners.

News

Turkey program suspended

Due to parental safety concerns after Sept. 11, nearly all participants withdrew from this spring semester’s Alanya study abroad program in Turkey, causing the Office of International Programs to temporarily cancel the program for the year.

According to Debbie Brown, associate director of Overseas Studies, the University did not suspend the program on its own accord, but was forced to when the number of students enrolled fell to two or three.

Voices

The smallpox threat

For centuries, the smallpox virus remained one of the most dreaded and deadly diseases to plague mankind. It is a virus that infected and killed the most privileged in society, such as King Louis XV of France, as well as the poorest populations around the globe.

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DeGioia promotes unpopular administrator

A petition signed by 45 faculty members of the Georgetown University Medical Center was sent to University President John J. DeGioia’s office in December. The petition was signed in protest of DeGioia’s recent decision to appoint current Executive Vice President for Health Studies Sam Wiesel to the newly-created position of Senior Vice President and Dean of Clinical Affairs.

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Announcements

Dr. Richard P. Keeling, executive editor of the “American Journal of College Health,” will deliver the keynote address during Georgetown University’s “Health, Safety and Justice Week,” on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Copley Formal Lounge. Keeling will discuss what it means to be safe in a college environment and the health choices students make surrounding major issues, specifically alcohol.

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Violent crime in Georgetown down

The number of violent crimes in the Georgetown area has dropped by 12 percent in the past year, according to Metropolitan Police Department Commander Peter Newsham of the 2nd district. His comments came at a meeting with the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, the Citizens Association of Georgetown and area residents, who met on Tuesday to discuss area safety concerns.