Volume 94, Issue 1
Stories from the October 23, 1997 issue of the GW Hatchet.
GW officials are crossing their fingers that efforts during this week’s conference on the future of presidential debates will pay off in a few years with the chance to host a debate on campus during the 2000 campaign. Members of the political and journalism communities joined GW students in the Marvin Center Theater Monday and […]
Boogie Nights (New Line Cinema) wants to be something bigger, and could have been. But writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson too-narrowly focuses the subject of the film. Chronicling the change in the porn industry during the 1970s and 1980s as it devolved from film to videotape, Boogie Nights is authentic. Everything from the clothes and dialogue, […]
A proposal by GW Hospital and its for-profit partner to purchase Columbia Hospital for Women was rejected by Columbia’s board of directors last month, quashing hopes for an expanded women’s health facility at GW for now. District Hospital Partners Inc., the partnership formed between Universal Health Services Inc. and GW Hospital this summer, proposed the […]
A Life Less Ordinary (Twentieth Century Fox) is an improbable, often confusing, but very funny love story. Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting) stars as Robert, a janitor at a large corporation. He is, to put it bluntly, a loser. Cameron Diaz (My Best Friend’s Wedding) stars as Celine, the daughter of Robert’s boss. She is a bitchy-but-beautiful […]
The podiums and backdrop that millions of Americans first saw during the Clinton-Dole debates last year were back on C-SPAN Monday when GW seniors Garrett Peel and Doug Miner took the stage to open a two-day conference at the Marvin Center. The Commission on Presidential Debates Symposium, co-sponsored by GW, recapped and dissected the 1996 […]
The quintet Madredeus has evolved from a little-known, Lisbon-based group to Portugal’s most famous group of magicians – and one of Europe’s most acclaimed bands. With the album O Esp?rito da Paz (Capitol Records), which means the spirit of peace, the group attempts to gain a foothold on the opposite shore of the Atlantic. The […]
The GW Hatchet expanded from newsprint to cyberspace Wednesday, as The Hatchet launched its own site on the World Wide Web. The site (http://www.gwhatchet.com) features all of the stories that run in The Hatchet, as well as listings for local cultural events and movies. A search engine will allow readers to browse The Hatchet’s morgue, […]
Greed and jealousy snakethrough Devil’s Advocate Andrea PhilpotWeekend Writer Greed, hubris, jealousy, competition, lust and dishonesty run rampant in Devil’s Advocate (Warner Brothers) to create a unique film. The movie springs from the coming of the new millennium – and with it, the Apocalypse. With scenes in which people turn into monsters, walls come to […]
Eight hundred GW students have not yet received their promised Student Advantage membership cards, slated as part of the GWorld card program initiated in August, Student Advantage Marketing Manager Erik Geisler said this week. Geisler said he learned of the problem last week when the number of calls from GW students increased to a level […]
Playing God (Touchstone Pictures) is one of the year’s best movies, except for a gaping hole in the plot. The film, which “X-Files” fans have awaited for almost a year, is marred by a large flaw that could ruin the movie for some. But most audiences will let it slide due to the sincerity of […]