Volume 97, Issue 40
Stories from the February 1, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Boy meets girl. Boy falls madly in love with girl. Following the path of its love-at-first sight predecessors, Head Over Heels (Universal Pictures) is not what one would call an original. The movie opens as Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter, Patch Adams) discovers her boyfriend sleeping with a lingerie model. Heartbroken and homeless, Amanda is wondering […]
A delegation of students from GW’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are among students from 15 schools chosen from across the United States and Canada to compete in the FutureTruck competition, sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and the Department of Energy. The sponsors chose the competitors from 99 proposals. The competition challenges teams […]
Images of misshapen and contorted humans, along with subhuman witches, monks and nobility, play out disturbing and complicated themes in the Dimock Gallery’s latest exhibit “Goya: Los Caprichos.” The exhibit, which runs until Feb. 28, gives visitors a rare chance to view all 80 prints of Francisco Goya’s controversial “Los Caprichos,” while providing a greater […]
Based on advertisements for the movie Left Behind (Cloud Ten), the plot promised to be an intriguing apocalyptic thriller following a journalist in search of the truth. But advertisements do not always tell the whole story, as the movie based on a New York Times Bestseller became more of a forum for religious ideology than […]
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Where: 1831 M St. NW Crowd: Laid-back college students Getting In: I.D. at door Price: No cover, $3.25 drafts Dancing: ’80s and ’90s pop music It might be “end of days” for the traditional Tuesday nights at Mister Days, but Madhatter has become the new home to GW students every Tuesday night. Located on M […]
The idea of fusion food, which is made by combining two different cuisines, seems to be in decline these days. This is probably not a bad thing, as the new rise of home-style cooking tends to lead to cheaper meals and better food. But every once in a while a restaurant challenges my thinking on […]
The time has come. For years parents, teachers, aunts and neighbors have posed the same question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” This May, GW’s “grown-up” seniors are finally going to have to answer them. The days of responses like firefighter, football player and ballerina have passed, but hardly any childhood […]
Presence (n): The bearing, carriage, or air of a person. 2: A quality of pose and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience. 3: Something felt or believed to be present. 4: Ugo Oha. Freshman center Ugo Oha is a presence for the GW women’s basketball team in every […]