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A new veneration of leadership

“It’s usually not this cold here,” Alice said as she ushered me into her apartment. She said it as if it would warm me up, as if I should have been happy to know that my toes usually wouldn’t be frostbitten after waiting 30 minutes outside in the middle of a New Hampshire winter for an old lady who said she’d be home at 10:30 A.

By the Voice Staff January 29, 2004

Editorials

A tale of two buses

While the frigid D.C. winter makes a trip to Dupont less than appealing, getting off campus just became a little easier. Earlier this week, Georgetown University and Georgetown University Hospital, owned by Medstar, struck a deal which allows University students, faculty and staff to use the hospital-run shuttle buses, in addition to those provided through GUTS, to travel to Dupont Circle or Rosslyn.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

Editorials

Opportunity lost in Alanya

Last November, the State Department issued a travel warning for Istanbul due to increased terrorist attacks in the region. As a result of the warning, the Emergency Support Team for International Affairs cancelled Georgetown’s study abroad trip to the McGhee center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya, Turkey.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

Editorials

A new type of cure

As theories about treatment for the mentally ill have evolved, the need for St. Elizabeths mental hospital’s expansive campus in Southeast D.C. has declined. What remains of the 149-year-old institution is mostly a collection of aging and abandoned buildings.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

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Are you there, God? It’s me, Nathaniel

VOICES BY SCOTT MATTHEWS Boy, there sure are a lot of Starbucks around! It seems like everywhere you go there’s another Starbucks! I mean, how many Starbuc … “Damn it!” I yell as I slam my fist down in anger and frustration, accidentally hitting a cactus that just happened to be there.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

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Rage against the machine

Teaching little kids English at a French school requires one thing: lots of photocopies. Recent favorites include color-it-yourself numbers, “Dick and Jane” and a scary page from a 1990 yearbook. With the right amount of energy and a not-so-sincere smile, these pages are portals into the magical world of the English language.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

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Left brain/left hand coordination

Walking into any given Barnes and Noble, the average pleasure reader is faced with stacks of titles like American Dynasty and Bushwacked, all railing against the actions, policies and general state of being of the Bush administration. While their conservative counterparts like Ann Coulter’s Treason are nearly as prevalent, the sheer quantity of inked vitriol directed towards the president is striking.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

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Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes mistakes seriously. We correct all errors of substance in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible.

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

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Letter to the Editor

Corruption and inefficiency plague public schools

By the Voice Staff January 22, 2004

Editorials

Two up on the town

In the continuing battle between Hoya and Townie, the University has recently pulled ahead with several victories. On Dec. 4, the D.C. Court of Appeals struck down several D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment provisions instituted against the University’s most recent 10-year plan.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Editorials

Don’t vouch for this

On Jan. 9, President Bush urged the Senate to pass a bill allotting 14 million tax dollars a year to low-income D.C. parents who want to send their children to private schools. This school voucher bill, which was approved by the House of Representatives on Dec.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Editorials

Ditching the District

This Tuesday, D.C. voters had the chance to participate in the District’s inaugural “Presidential Preference Primary.” By placing the District’s primary before the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, District officials hoped to attract national attention to its lack of congressional voting rights.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

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The real state of the union

VOICES BY BILL CLEVELAND Tuesday night Georgetown students gathered for “The Real State of the Union,” a panel discussion with several writers for the Atlantic Monthly.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

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Two questions for conservatives

Can you close your eyes and picture a scarier, more dangerous America? An America in which the ideas of The Nation or Marx’s Kapital had won the day, a world in which leftism had gone so far, become so extreme, that electing even a moderate conservative to national office proved impossible?

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

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Housing development’s leftovers

Ever since I can remember, I’ve gone to my grandmother’s house in Rhode Island for Thanksgiving. Family and friends come together for a celebration and non-stop eating with leftovers for three days. As kids, my brother, sisters, and I always escaped the hedonistic feeding frenzy to go out and explore the woods behind Grandma’s house.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Editorials

Censorship in Red Square?

Students passing through Red Square on Thursday, Nov. 21 undoubtedly noticed representatives from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property waving a large red flag and handing out pamphlets. The following Tuesday, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson addressed the situation in a campus-wide e-mail, denouncing the outside organization’s distribution of “offensive and hateful material that attacked gays and lesbians.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Editorials

Accidental press conference

The rector of Georgetown’s Jesuit community, Rev. Brian McDermott, S.J., apologized to the Kennedy family last week for the University’s release of Jackie Kennedy’s personal correspondences with the late Rev. Richard McSorley, S.J. The damage had already been done, but McDermott tried to rectify the situation as much as possible.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Editorials

Bushgiving in Baghdad

On Thanksgiving, President George W. Bush took a trip to Iraq. Arriving at the former Saddam

International Airport under cover of darkness, he spent a few top-secret hours with American troops stationed in Baghdad. He posed with the troops, and with a turkey, and then headed back to the United States.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

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Brief encounters with luminary pundits

The other night I went to hear Martin Amis, one of my favorite authors, read at a Washington bookstore. hoping I would be able to suppress my inner stalker. I admire his novels, his cultural and literary criticisms, his examinations of history, and of course his contribution to Mars Attacks!, one of the most brilliant movies of the ‘90s not disgraced by the later atrocities of O.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003