Cactus Patch: Local boys make good
D.C. represent! The D.C. scene has produced plenty of big names in the past but what has it done for us lately?
Thursday, September 20, 2001
Hardball touches audience in all the wrong places
Casting Keanu Reeves as the determined baseball coach of young boys from the projects may look like a box office homerun, but Hardball fails to hit anything out of the park.
Unfettered style fuels new fantasy
Terry Brooks returns to a world of airships and Druids in "The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara," the second installment of his fantasy book series.
The positive side of negative space
Breaking my normal Friday routine of waking up and heading straight to work, I instead took a trip to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the Mall.
Volleyball wins A-10 opener
The GW women's volleyball team was successful in its first attempt to defend last year's Atlantic 10 Conference title. The Colonials swept La Salle at the Smith Center Tuesday ending a six-game losing streak and starting off conference play with a win.
Sports: Working through the pain
Abby Ernst was once a promising middle hitter with a full scholarship on the GW volleyball team. A chronic back injury has sidelined Ernst this season and could possibly end her college career
Red Flash shuts out men’s soccer
Saint Francis College notched a pair of second half goals en route to a 2-0 shutout of the GW men's soccer team Monday afternoon in Loretto, Penn.
Navy shuts out women’s soccer
The United States Naval Academy handed the GW women’s soccer team its first shutout this season Monday night, a 2-0 loss at the Glenn Warner Soccer Facility in Annapolis, Md.
Cosby gets two years in jail
A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced former GW basketball player Attila Cosby to more than two years in jail Tuesday, saying the violent nature of his crime overshadows any testimony to Cosby's good character or potential.
GW opens rooms
GW announced Monday it will keep residence halls open Sept. 27-Oct. 2 after the International Monetary Fund and World Bank officially postponed their meetings and Metropolitan Police decreased their expectations for demonstrations that weekend.
Technology withstands student growth
Information System Services and Resnet officials say the addition of 450 more freshmen than last year has not overburdened technology services at GW so far.
U.S. deploys troops abroad
(UWIRE) WASHINGTON - The Pentagon secured plans Wednesday to shift an arsenal of combat and supply aircraft to the Persian Gulf, the first clear sign that an organized military response to last week's terrorist attacks could soon be underway.
Long-time GW neighbor dies at 78
Olga Corey never got to fulfill an invitation to students to stay at her place when GW closed residence halls for International Monetary Fund and World Bank protests. She also didn't live to see the University reverse its decision and the reason why
Crime log
Crime around campus Sept. 1-19
News Brief: Colleges organize to protest war
Students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut are organizing a nationwide effort to promote a peaceful response to last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Around Campus (news briefs)
Sigma Epsilon Alpha member faces possible expulsion; Worried parents clog lines; Wooden Teeth hosts coffee-house
Airport closing reduces options
Students flying out of the area for class cancellations later this month should be prepared to deal with changes resulting from the closure of Ronald Reagan National Airport and heightened security measures at airports nationwide.
Ruling stuns Cosby family, supporters
A middle-aged woman sits silently on a bench outside a courtroom eating sunflower seeds. It has been almost a year and four months since a night on a street corner pulling tricks for crack turned terribly wrong.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Local vendors battle for the right to sell pasta
Two vendors stationed outside the Marvin Center are locked in a dispute over the right to sell pasta, competing for the business of GW customers.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: SJT helps promote government jobs
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will serve as a link to students as part of a new organization called the Partnership for Public Service, which hopes to recruit college students for government jobs.
‘Crossfire’ offers in-depth look at terrorism
CNN’s "Crossfire" transformed the Media and Public Affairs auditorium into a fully functional television set this week, featuring well-known politicians and experts discussing the recent attacks on the United States.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: `Crossfire,’ GW host McCain
Posted 4 a.m. Sept. 20 Students grilled Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) with questions about terrorism and American military action in a live broadcast of CNN's "Crossfire" Wednesday night, hours after the Associated Press reported the president's decision to send U.S. military planes to the Middle East.
NEWS NOW: Presidential address calls for unity
Posted 9:55 p.m. Sept. 20 In a highly anticipated address to a joint session of Congress Thursday night, President Bush announced the creation of a Cabinet-level position to fight terrorism and pledged a vigorous military campaign against rogue nations. The President appointed Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to lead the newly-created Office of Homeland Security, aimed to develop a "comprehensive strategy against terrorism."
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Senators discuss military action at GW ‘Crossfire’
Posted 11:30 a.m. Sept. 21 In times of war, unusual things happen. CNN's "Crossfire," which is broadcasting live from GW all week, was not immune to that phenomenon Wednesday night as hosts from the right and left and two senior senators put aside their differences and discussed a pending war with students.
Netanyahu joins House committee to examine attacks
Posted 4:25 p.m. Sept. 21 State supported terrorism must be stripped of its resources if the United States hopes to mount a successful campaign against violence, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a House committee Thursday. Speaking from his experience as leader of a country long involved in a bloody religious and political struggle with its Palestinian neighbors, Netanyahu called last week's attacks on the United States a "wake-up call from hell."
Movie Listings Sept. 21st to 28th
listing is for movies playing between 9/21 - 9/28 as provided by theaters.
