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Monday, September 24th, 2007Today was an inauspicious day for two reasons and an auspicious one for two other reasons. First, the bad news.
Bad News #1: The Bears lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 34-10. I was watching this game with various loved ones, and I hate to admit that I said the “F” word in front […]
Iran-Contraceptive scandal grips Georgetown Law
Sunday, April 1st, 2007In what will surely go down as the most controversial decision at the Law Center since President Patrick Healy ordered the replacement of the Draconian Method with the Socratic Method in 1876, the Student Bar Association approved funding for an event featuring Iranian ambassador Zarif and voted down a measure that would allow members of […]
Georgetown advances to the Final Four. Elsewhere in the same country, the UChicago basketball team goes 20-6 and makes it to the Div III tournament
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007This past Sunday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 1985. The game was downright amazing, as anyone who watched will attest. The Hoyas were down by TEN points with seven minutes to go, and still came back to tie in regulation and, ultimately, win […]
Chicago and the 2016 Olympics
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Chicago just approved a $500 million backstop to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. That is not an automatic $500 million outlay; it is more like half a billion dollars of collateral in case the private development funding comes up short. That’s still a lot of money, but the City Council […]
Georgetown wins Big East title
Sunday, March 11th, 2007(Photo by Suzy Allman for the New York Times)
The Hoyas beat Pittsburgh last night 65-42, and it was every bit the beat-down it seems. Here is the CNN/SI article about it.
I, for one, am really excited about the conference championship. I’ve read and heard sports journalists say that the conference is less […]