Students were forced to evacuate Bender Library for half an hour on Tuesday morning after a gas odor was detected throughout the building.
Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, confirmed Israel’s commitment to peace talks and a two-state solution with Palestine when he spoke at Katzen Arts Center Thursday. Protesters both supporting and opposing Oren attended the presentation, and Public Safety Officers stood by.
A weekend loss in Worcester ended the Eagles’ lacrosse season. Holy Cross Crusaders beat the Eagles 16-11.
This weekend the Student Government put on a Spring Fling using funds which would have been spent on the Founders’ Day Ball.
I joined the Undergraduate Senate, at the behest of outgoing Secretary Colin Meiselman, when I transferred to American University. I joined the body out of anger. I was incensed that the Senate was voting on what I deemed to be a pointless issue: criticizing Columbus Day and calling for an alleged "Indigenous People's Day," and I was determined to get the Senate to start focusing on issues that mattered to the students.
The Washington Capitals shouldn’t get comfortable with their 3-2 series lead. Last year the Caps came from behind to make it out of the first round, so they should know more than anyone that anything can happen.
The Denver Broncos went into Thursday’s NFL Draft with many needs after going 8-8 last season.
In recently released rankings, the Washington College of Law tied with the University of Maryland for 48th best law school, and two of Kogod School of Business’ graduate programs made the list of the 15 best graduate programs as ranked by business students.
A Q&A with former SG President Andy MacCracken.
AU raised $7.6 million above its AnewAU campaign goal for endowments, allowing the university to increase the number of scholarship awards for the incoming freshmen class.
If you haven’t seen Jennifer Coolidge in a film or television show, you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade or so. As Coolidge gleefully gushes about climbing the ladder to a B-list movie career during her stand-up comedy show at the Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, you realize that she’s been responsible for sending you into fits of uncontrollable laughter since you snuck a peek at “American Pie” in elementary school.
This will most likely be my last column for The Eagle. I’ve given you all plenty of recipes over the past few months — everything from pasta to stir fry — and a few tips on how to mix it up and create your own dishes. But I wanted to use this last bit of column space to review some the techniques I’ve covered and compile some of my most important tips.
Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron are too often cited as the only female directors making films about contemporary women’s issues. Both directors are consistently successful at the box office, yet their films celebrate wildly varying degrees of success. Although her films typically fly under the Meyers-Ephron radar, it is director Nicole Holofcener who is authoring better movies about women and tackling more sophisticated themes.
Whoever gave news reporter-turned-director Bob Bowdon a camera and a tutorial in iMovie should be punished. His patronizing, ethically bankrupt documentary “The Cartel” serves as a train wreck of an example for aspiring documentarians to use as a complete antithesis for the type of work they should be making.
It was not too long ago that Adam Young, better known as Owl City, was just a guy making music in his parents’ basement late at night. His performance at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall last Thursday did nothing but exemplify this fact and proved that his past is all too recent.
Mary Gaitskill’s new short story collection, “Don’t Cry,” is an eccentric novel that covers many things, among them Ethiopian babies, one-night stands, widows, soldiers and 43-year-old red-headed virgins. With little prologue, she is able to plumb the emotional depths of these and other idiosyncratically imagined characters, microscopically examining the bloody pulp of their thoughts and feelings — horrors, indignities, uncomfortable wants and all. Though these are certainly raw and bruise-inducing stories, at their core they are about our persistent drive as people to connect, love and know others and ourselves.
The television sensation “Glee” premiered its five-months-in-the-making Madonna-centric episode last Tuesday to high expectations, and didn’t fail to deliver. Gleeks were treated to some of the best “Glee” performances all season, including a female-empowered rendition of “Express Yourself” (during which Quinn’s baby bump mysteriously disappeared), and the convergence of Kurt (Chris Colfer), Mercedes (Amber Riley) and the Cheerios singing “4 Minutes.” Sue Sylvester’s (Jane Lynch) nearly shot-for-shot remake of the “Vogue” music video was perhaps the most brilliant and hilarious three-and-a-half minutes of the entire episode.
Food critic and traveler Moira Hodgson’s memoir, “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,” reads like one of her food critiques. Simple, crisp descriptions of food frame the experience of a particular restaurant. Hodgson writes like she is whispering a secret in your ear about the flavors and flaws of a restaurant experience. Unlike her critiques, however, Hodgson’s novel does not have a gripping plot. The simplicity of her descriptions allows the reader to experience her life quite vividly, and like her critiques, these experiences are enhanced by mouth-watering descriptions of food.
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