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Everything you need to know to get your DC sports fix

By Ian Quillen | September 23

Washington, D.C., can be a disconcerting place for a sports fan. Here, NHL playoff games fail to sell out. Here, it's impossible to watch the professional version of the national pastime in the national capital. Here, many residents root for every team but the home team because their family and cultural roots are embedded somewhere far from the Potomac's banks.

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Sports

Kerry is a sports schlub

By Phil Turner | September 23

Sports columnist Phil Turner gives some sports pointers to Senator John Kerry, who has made some fandom missteps lately.

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News

Kucinich visits AU

September 23

Former Democratic presidential candidate Congressman Dennis Kucinich stopped by last night for an SPA dinner and discussion series.

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News

Pakistani President Musharraf speaks to expats

By Zehra Rizavi | September 23

If Pakistan intends to become a credible and respected player in the international arena, it must correct its false image of an intolerant, belligerent Muslim state, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, said Wednesday to a gathering of nearly 1,800 Pakistani-Americans in D.C.'s Mayflower hotel.

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Opinion

College Republicans dropped ball with Malkin

By Brad Vasoli | September 23

Guest columnist Brad Vasoli argues that the AU College Republicans were mistaken in their cancellation of speaker Michelle Malkin's visit.

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News

American Indian museum opens

By Emily Carone and Chris Nye | September 23

More than 60,000 people pulsed to the beat of native drums Tuesday as American Indians from around the hemisphere gathered for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. It was the largest gathering of American Indians in history. After a conch shell sounded at 9:30 a.m., tribes in full native dress paraded in alphabetical order from the Smithsonian castle to the new museum.

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News

Campus Briefs

September 23

Eagle staff members present news from the upcoming week on and around campus.

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News

Out of Context

September 23

IN AN EXTRAORDINARY DISPLAY OF BAD TIMING, Tuesday's NBC4 local news at 6 p.m. managed to juxtapose triumph and travesty. The broadcast featured a report from the National Mall that went something like this:

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News

'A Lo Latino' spices up Quad

By Dyane Jean-Francois | September 23

Salsa dancing, chicken fajitas and "Chicano" are all things that Americans recognize as "Hispanic." Wednesday on the quad there was an opportunity to learn more. AU kicked off the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month with "A Lo Latino," a celebration on the Quad.

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Opinion

Gay mentor program

September 23

The Eagle editorial staff comments on a new mentoring program in which gay mentors would spend 10 hours per week with foster children who consider themselves sexually confused or gay. The program will be run by the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs.

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News

Gay adults mentor foster teens

September 23

D.C. officials recently announced that they would create a program in which gay adults would mentor 15- to 18-year-olds in foster care who say they are gay or are questioning their sexuality. Wanda Alston, director of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Affairs, which was created Sept. 8, is facilitating the new program.

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News

Bush, Kerry differ on how to provide college cash

By Kelly Monihan | September 23

Along with national security and gay marriage, money for college students is an important issue in this year's election, with both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) proposing to provide more of it.

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News

Police Blotter

By Caroline Solomon | September 23

A listing of notable events reported by Public Safety for the week of September 17.

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News

Crossfire

By Danny Lieberman | September 23

Danny Lieberman's Crossfire comic for September 24, 2004.

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Opinion

Editorial Cartoon: Rejected pandas

By Ann Detwiler | September 23

Ann Detwiler's editorial cartoon for Sept. 23, 2004.

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Opinion

The Eagle's response on Muslim chaplain articles

September 23

The Eagle deeply regrets the recent act of vandalism that took place in the Muslim prayer room and condemned it in an editorial. The idea that something The Eagle fairly and accurately reported and extensively documented could be tied to what has been called a crime of bias by University Chaplain Joe Eldridge is utterly wrong and untrue.

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News

'September Tapes' goes guerilla

By Megan Slack | September 23

Six months after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government was still scrambling to find Osama bin Laden, hidden somewhere in the bowels of Afghanistan. Convinced there was something more behind the deadlocked dilemma, five American filmmakers bribed their way into the war-torn country in search of answers.

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