(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - U.S. military officials declared victory in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah Monday, but some resistance remains and violence has spilled to neighboring Sunni Triangle cities. U.S. military sources reported 38 U.S. casualties and estimates guerrilla deaths at over 1,000 since the offensive began early last week, according to Reuters.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - The Cleveland Clinic became the first institution to receive approval of human facial transplants last month, following intense debate on ethical issues and questions of medical and psychological safety. The practice of transplanting body parts other than critical organs is a relatively new medical practice.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - The number of women in both state and federal prisons is at an all time high and growing at a rate twice as fast as their male counterparts, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to the report, which surveyed prison population in 2003, the number of females in prisons around the country grew 3.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - As the calm of the post-election season settles in, candidates must decide what to do. Is there life after the election for the loser? That's just what John Kerry and camp are trying to figure out. Recently, presidential candidates who lost their bid fell into political oblivion.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Olympic gold medal swimming sensation, Michael Phelps, 19, was charged with drunken driving after disregarding a stop sign earlier this month. He has since publicly apologized for the erroneous behavior. "I want to say that last week I made a mistake.
Some Student Association members are accusing Sen. Ben Traverse (CCAS-U) of reversing his position after he refused to criticize the use of student funds to purchase food. Last month, Traverse sharply criticized SA President Omar Woodard's use of $414 in student funds to buy dinner this summer at an upscale Georgetown restaurant, but is being accused of not holding others to the same standards.
Destruction 11/14 - Schenley Hall - case closed Both exit signs on the building's third floor were ripped from the ceiling. Facilities management was notified. No suspects Disorderly Conduct 11/13 - Fulbright Hall - 4:34 a.m. - case closed An unknown individual discharged a fire extinguisher on the third, fourth and fifth floors.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg called for the improvement of the city's school system and decrease of its deficit in a speech Monday. Trachtenberg, who also serves as chairman of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, delivered the "State of D.C. Business" address at the first ever "State of Business Summit: Setting the Agenda for Economic Growth" at the Capital Hilton to hundreds of business community members.
Despite the longstanding disputes between GW and Foggy Bottom residents, University and community officials said the Mount Vernon Campus enjoys good relations with its neighbors. In Foggy Bottom, some residents have engaged in zoning battles and fought the University on almost all of its efforts to expand.
Program Board members are looking at their approach to promoting Sunday's Black Eyed Peas concert, which only sold about half of its tickets. "We always go through an extensive reflection process and do a lot of follow up," Program Board Executive Chair Eric Wiegand said.
Last Sunday night may have been the first time Black Eyed Peas recited an impromptu freestyle driven by shout-outs to "G-Dub." However, the estimated 2,500 people who attended the band's recent GW performance appeared as if they hoped it wasn't the last. "The show was amazing.
The GW Chamber Choir's Nov. 20 performance of "From the Outside Looking In" marks the first time a GW Music Department group will perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "This opportunity is amazing," senior GW Chamber Choir member Jeff Stern said.
Sake 2477 18th St. N.W. I didn't know whether to blame senioritis or my five consecutive classes, but I had definitely gotten into a Thursday night rut. Back in my days at Thurston, Thursday was the night to go out. I would spend hours deciding between Seven jeans or black pants, coordinate an equally expensive and generic bag, then covertly pregame taking multiple shots of raspberry Smirnoff.
Warning: Do not allow an excessively complicated story to scare you. Pericles, at the Shakespeare Theatre, is actually a silly, soap opera tale. The plot "summary" in the playbill covers several pages of miniscule print and fills the audience with trepidation for what lies in wait behind the billowy white curtain.
Watching "Kinsey" (Fox Searchlight) is like disappointing sex. It's intriguing at first, certainly has its moments early on, but by the end it's just awkward and painful. Afterwards, it's hard to know what went wrong - it seemed so promising approaching the halfway mark, but the lack of closure, the breakdown of communication, the lack of warmth make sure that you won't be in a hurry to see the good doctor again.
In his book "From Caligari to Hitler," film theorist Siegfried Kracauer argues that Hitler's rise to power in the crippled post-World War I Germany was aided by the cinematic movement German Expressionism, which focused entirely on creating alternate, almost dreamlike realities in the films under its stylistic umbrella.
Continuing their latest rush of mainstream popularity, The Shins released a new song titled "They'll Soon Discover" on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie Soundtrack earlier this month. Groups such as Wilco, The Flaming Lips and Motorhead also lent their talents to the album, creating a bubbly, aquatic pop effect that characterizes the movie.
THURSDAY Talib Kweli w/Saul Williams 9:30 Club $25 Talib Kweli, whose name means "student of truth," lives up to this title on his recent effort The Beautiful Struggle, an effortlessly smart and infectious album that sends one hand to the air and the other to the encyclopedia.
Yesterday, District cab drivers participated in a 12-hour work stoppage to protest D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams' proposed reorganization of the way taxicabs are regulated. Perhaps the plan's most controversial suggestion is the provision calling for cab companies to contribute toward raising $350,000 to equip a small number of cabs with fare meters as a means to base a future decision on transitioning away from the current zone-based system.
After passing through a committee, the D.C. City Council is set to consider a bill requiring all volunteers in the District's public schools to be fingerprinted and subjected to an FBI background check. The most egregious component to this piece of legislation is its stipulation requiring volunteers to foot the $40 bill for such services.
Joe Country lives in rural America, gets his news from Fox and commentary from Rush Limbaugh on the radio on his way to work. He attends church more than once a week and often discusses issues important to him with a group of church friends every Sunday after services.
In the spirit of the approaching holiday season, I thought I would take the time to be a little gracious in this week's column. Well, to start at least. I first wanted to apologize to the dozens of hostile OC fans offended by a gaffe I made in my last column.
When I heard the news, I went out to buy a bottle of champagne. I came back with a bottle of vodka instead, but regardless of the method, the idea was the same; I was going to get blasted celebrating the retirement of a man who, during his time, gave me more reason to question the first Bush administration than George Bush himself.
A good race I would like to publicly commend Kris Hart for his efforts in the race for election as the 2A-05 Commissioner of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission. Having known and worked with Kris on community projects, I was delighted to endorse him as a candidate and, in a way, to act as his campaign manager.
Thursday Vietnamese Thanksgiving Dinner 6 to 8 p.m. Multicultural Student Services Center Room 209 Sponsored by the Vietnamese Student Association Showing of "Dirty Secrets" Documentary about CIA-led detainment and torture in Latin America 7 to 9 p.m. Funger Hall Room 108 Sponsored by Amnesty International Free Pita Giveaway Pita giveaway and meet a legal drinking responsibilities awareness group 8 to 10 p.
Student Association President Omar Woodard is at odds with the Senate over the size of a suggested SA fee increase. Woodard said at Tuesday night's Senate meeting that he supported a measure that would allow students to vote in a spring referendum on whether to raise the student per-credit fee by 50 cents.
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and Sigma Kappa sorority won the annual Greek Week competition, which took place last week. Greek Week, which ended Nov. 11, featured a seven-day sequence of competitive events, including a date auction, skit night and Greek God and Goddess competition for fraternities and sororities.
The article "Living the GW dream" (Nov. 15, p. 1) mistakenly stated that there are 10 GW alumni serving in the House of Representatives. Eight alumni are House members. The Snapshot photo titled "Media Frenzy" (Nov. 15, p. 2) misspelled the name of People magazine correspondent Linda Kramer.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The GW men's basketball team swallowed a bitter reality pill Monday night. In the fourth season-opener of coach Karl Hobbs' tenure, No. 2 Wake Forest handed the Colonials a 97-76 loss in the first round of the preseason National Invitation Tournament.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - GW alumnus Alex Herrgott has been attending GW men's basketball games since the Shawnta Rogers era. He said he has not missed a home game in five years, so he was not going to pass up the chance to see the Colonials open the 2004-05 college basketball season at Wake Forest Monday night.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. If there is one thing that should be pretty clear after Monday night, it is that despite how far the GW men's basketball team has come, the program is still a long way away from the likes of Wake Forest. With their last two games, excluding the preseason, being losses here in Winston-Salem and at the University of Virginia in March, the Colonials obviously won't be invited to join the Almighty Coast Conference anytime soon.
The GW men's soccer team will challenge the University of North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday at 6 p.m. at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill, N.C. After shutting out Temple 2-0 last Sunday in the Atlantic 10 Tournament finale, the Colonials earned a spot in NCAA Tourney for the second time in three years.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will receive "harsh penalties" for allowing two unrecognized fraternities to participate in their kickball tournament, Panhellenic Association officials said earlier this week.
Roughly 2,500 GW students who volunteered at D.C. public schools last year could have to go through a background check before doing so again in the future. The D.C. City Council might consider a bill next month that would require all unsupervised volunteers to be fingerprinted at their own cost before working with children in local schools.
Students evicted from three apartments in an off-campus townhouse three weeks ago have not been allowed to move back in, and said city officials have offered no explanations.
A group of journalists at Monday night's Kalb Report at the National Press Club debated whether moral values were the deciding factor in the 2004 election. The discussion, hosted by moderator Marvin Kalb, featured CNN political analyst Jeff Greenfield, The New York Times' Adam Nagourney, U.
"Kinsey," Bill Condon's latest opus, deals with the impossibility of confining people to category - a lesson that Condon knows as well as anyone. An openly gay filmmaker who started out making low budget horror films ("Candyman 2") and then wound up winning an Oscar for his stunning "Gods and Monsters," a genre-bending biopic about "Frankenstein" director James Whale.
What do you have to die for? Not to live for, but to die for? What do you love so much you would stop breathing for it; what moves you so deeply you want to experience it to the ultimate degree? For Vincent van Gogh (Marc Kurdish), that would be painting.
"National Treasure" (Touchstone) tells the story of treasure hunter Benjamin Gates (Nicolas Cage). For generations, his family has searched for an elusive fortune, amassed over the course of centuries, last known to be in the hands of America's founding fathers.
Unlike the GW men's basketball team, the women's team will not open their season with a nationally televised game. However, coach Joe McKeown's team will begin with a big game of its own - against cross-town rival Georgetown. The Hoyas will look to defeat the Colonials for the fourth straight year.
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