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Sports

Hoyas skin Kiwis, 87-53

New Zealand select visited McDonough Arena last Thursday and performed the country’s traditional Haka dance of intimidation before tipoff. Forty minutes later, Georgetown had beaten the Kiwis, 87-53.

Apparently, it wasn’t that intimidating.

Junior forward Victor Samnick was the story for the Hoyas, finishing the game with 13 points and 15 rebounds for his second consecutive double-double.

By the November 15, 2001

Leisure

Jewel’s back. Why? O God, Why?

It’s been five years since Jewel foisted herself upon the cultural consciousness of this great nation with her breakout album, Pieces of You. The mega-success of “Who Will Save Your Soul? and “You Were Meant for Me” soon led to a spoken-word album, a plethora of softly-lit black-and-white photo shoots and a strange nationwide awareness of the fact she slept in her car while working her way to the top.

By the November 15, 2001

Voices

Can’t touch this

This past weekend, I had the great opportunity of attending the Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina. If the name of the event was not cause enough for chagrin, thanks to my right-wing neighbors, the troubles I met on my way down certainly added fuel to the fire.

By the November 15, 2001

Leisure

Paul McCartney drives home

Paul McCartney has one of the most easily-recognizable voices in rock ‘n’ roll. We’ve grown up hearing his voice crooning to us over the radio, and any new McCartney album’s vocals will have the familiarity of an old friend. In his new release, Driving Rain, McCarney’s natural compositions and his simple, beautiful lyrics feel like home.

By the November 15, 2001

Editorials

Dying with dignity

Last Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft authorized the Drug Enforcement Administration to take punitive action against physicians who prescribe lethal drugs for terminally ill patients?the doctors’ licenses would be suspended. This action, which is being challenged by the state of Oregon, represents a striking lack of compassion and understanding of how physicians help their patients to die and risks making the last days of the terminally ill a time of pain rather than comfort.

By the November 15, 2001

Leisure

Philosophers? Sorcerers? It’s all Harry Potter

While directed by an American and produced by a Hollywood studio, the new Harry Potter movie is unmistakably British. To be more precise, it is a British movie with lots and lots of money and special effects, which makes it some strange L.A.-London amalgam.

By the November 15, 2001

Sports

The true courtside seats

Everyone always thinks the best seats at a basketball game are those $1000 courtside seats where all the celebrities pay big bucks to sit. You know which ones I’m taking about.

Just think?Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle are shown every weekend on NBC sitting in those “prime” seats at the Lakers games, while Spike Lee sits courtside at all the Knicks games with that damn orange towel draped over his head which he insists on waving around like he’s the expert on all Knick matters.

By the November 15, 2001

Editorials

Bilingualism gets the boot

The Claremont Academy and Early Childhood Center in Arlington Country has recently instituted a new policy that prohibits its employees from speaking Spanish to parents without a supervisor or interpreter present.

“Everyone needs to be able to know what the employees are saying to the parents” according to the center’s director Patti Macie Monday in a Washington Post article.

By the November 15, 2001

News

GU receives federal request for student information

In response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Georgetown University has received at least one request for confidential student information from an agency of the U.S. government, said Assistant Vice President for Communications Julie Green Bataille.

By the November 15, 2001

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It was brought to our attention over the weekend, while spending late nights in the Voice office with noodles, fun baggy sweatpants and bearded fellows from the University of Georgia, that the editor of this section and the writer of this prosaic diatribe (ah, isn’t talking in unnamed third person so .

By the November 15, 2001