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Dumb, mean GOP proving irrelevant

By Jacob Shelly | March 2

Barack Obama's first month as president has provided fresh evidence that may help resolve one of the most vexing political questions of our day: do Republicans do what they do because they're not particularly good people or because they're not particularly smart people? The last eight years has seen a pitched battle between these two camps.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: "Privileged" Knepper is blissfully ignorant

By Matthew Bulger | March 2

It has been said that ignorance is bliss, and local neo-con Alex Knepper certainly may be a living example of such an idea. In his latest article, Liberals keep the victimized down, Mr. Knepper uses out of context remarks made by myself and the president of Queers and Allies, an organization we were not representing at the time when the statements were made on a previous article, in order to further his quest to belittle and demean any person or organization that does not equate itself with his very narrow-minded version of reality.

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News

Percussion, lyrics 'Subjects' of rock show

By Kristen Powell | March 2

It was so hot that everyone was sweating through their pants Friday night when The Subjects, Wild Light and Tapes 'n Tapes took to the stage at the Rock and Roll Hotel - or so Tapes 'n Tapes frontman Josh Grier kept insisting. "Sweat! Sweeeeaaaaat!" bassist Erik Appelwick backed him up.

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News

Prof questions U.S.-Israel bond

By Charlie Szold | March 2

A controversial Harvard professor called for a more open dialogue on the U.S. policies towards Israel, last Friday in the School of International Service Lounge. Stephen Walt, a professor at Harvard University and co-author of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," spoke to a mixed group of professors and students about the public reaction to his book.

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News

'Tale' brings Bronx to D.C.

By Hilary Leister | March 2

Chazz Palminteri proves a one-man show can still thrill an audience with his stirring performance in "A Bronx Tale," an entertaining "fictional memoir" about growing up in a gangster-ridden Italian section of New York City in the 1960s. "A Bronx Tale," directed by four-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Zaks, focuses on the relationship between an adolescent Palminteri and the infamous Sonny, a neighborhood gangster who takes the boy under his wing and teaches him about life, love and power.

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News

Former Miss America speaks on body image

By Travis Mitchell | March 2

It is important to maintain a positive and healthy body image, Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund said during a speech in the Ward Circle Building Thursday night. "Love your body, rock the world," she said. Now an aspiring Hollywood actress, 20-year-old Haglund is originally from Michigan and grew up studying ballet and dance.

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News

Kweller quells fans' appetites at 9:30

By Katrina Casino | March 2

"Best night of the tour," Ben Kweller announced to a packed house at the 9:30 club on Thursday night. "I'm calling it now." The crowd shouted in thunderous approval as Kweller broke into "Things I Like to Do," a simple and honest jam with the country twang of Kweller's new album "Changing Horses.

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News

AU Web site gets makeover

By Julia Ryan | March 2

AU's Web Steering Committee will debut an updated american.edu March 30 that will make it easier to find and share information about the university. School of Communication Dean Larry Kirkman convened the Web site redesign project a few years ago to make important and necessary updates to the site, according to Bernie Schulz, special assistant to the Vice President of Campus Life.

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News

Metro calendar

March 2

Monday, March 2 Discussion: Adam Gopnik on Darwin and Lincoln 7 p.m. WHERE: Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. N.W. METRO: Tenleytown-AU (red line) INFO: Adam Gopnik, a bestselling author and writer for the New York Times, will speak about Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who were both born on Feb.

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News

"Krapp" illuminates aging

February 26

On stage, a man sits behind a large desk in the glow of a single light, staring off into the distance with anguished nostalgia. In the intimate audience sounds the cacophony of discomfort: manic program folding, accentuated by whispered conversations. Is something going to happen? "Krapp's Last Tape," the newest production at Keegan Theatre, embodies all that made its playwright Samuel Beckett famous.

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News

Tancredo urges assimilation

By Lindsey Anderson and Clint Rice | February 26

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said immigrants need to assimilate and discussed why he thinks multiculturalism is divisive during a speech to an audience comprised mostly of protesters in Ward 1 Tuesday night. The protesters wore black and displayed signs that read "America is Multicultural" in multiple languages.

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News

Board passes AU's FY 2010-2011 budget

By Jen Calantone | February 26

The Board of Trustees unanimously passed the budget for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 Friday, which included a tuition increase of 5 percent over each of the two years, according to Vice President of Finance and Treasurer Don Myers. AU is currently financially stable, despite the economic crisis, according to Myers.

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News

Market blooms at AU

By Anna Tuman | February 26

If TDR's Farm to Fork section is not enough to appease your farm-fresh appetite, Eco-Sense's farmer's market, which is scheduled to appear on campus March 30, might be able to help. "Currently, students and faculty do not really have on-campus access to locally grown produce and goods," said Laura Perkins, a sophomore in the School of International Service and Eco-Sense's farmer's market coordinator.

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News

National brief

February 26

A woman in Oregon last week received an invitation to her nephew's graduation in New Jersey 22 years after it was originally sent, the Associated Press reported. Theresa Schlossarek of La Grande, Ore., did not attend the ceremony, which occurred in 1987, because she had not received the invitation.

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News

Campus calendar

February 26

Thursday, Feb. 26 Miss America 2008: Kirsten Haglund 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Ward 1 INFO: Haglund will speak about dealing with an eating disorder and her advocacy for body image awareness, as the finale for AU's Body Image Awareness Week. Free with an AU ID, $5 for guests.

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News

Fallon falling into late show role

By Caitlin E Moore | February 26

Over Jimmy Fallon's six years on "Saturday Night Live," he played a stoner college kid; a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan; a snobby worker at Jeffrey's; Nick Burns, your company's computer guy and Barry Gibb. Now it's time for Jimmy Fallon to play a role he's not so used to - himself.

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News

Campus brief

February 26

The Kogod School of Business has been inducted into the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE), according to an AU press release. CUIBE is a group of 11 "nationally recognized international business programs" that strive to "promote, enhance, and innovate" the way business is taught to college students, according to the Center for International Business Education and Research Web site.

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