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'Moderate' explores rock styles

By Ali Goldstein | February 2

With generous guitar riffs, twangy vocals and fun hooks, local indie rock band The Moderate create the type of heartfelt show you want to drink a beer and dance with your friends to. Their Friday night performance at the Rock and Roll Hotel opening for The Milkstains and The Breakups was no exception, with an audience full of dancing, enthusiastic fans.

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Middle Earth adventure 'rings' hollow, falls flat

By Michael Conte | February 2

Lord of the Rings: Conquest: B- "Lord of the Rings" video games hold the distinct honor of being the only movie-based franchise that includes a roster of consistently good games. From hack 'n' slashers and RPG's to strategy games, the LOTR games have been generally well-executed, faithful recreations of Tolkien's universe.

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Campus brief

February 2

AU President Neil Kerwin's office published its affirmative action statement on Friday as part of an annual requirement, according to David Taylor, Kerwin's chief of staff. AU is "committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities," according to the policy's text.

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Sports

Best division in MLB?

By Sam Lindauer | February 2

Pitchers and catchers report in less than two weeks, so it's time to start looking towards the 2009 season. This week's division preview: AL East. The AL East will be the division to watch in baseball this upcoming season because it has arguably the best three teams in the American League (and maybe all of baseball).

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Metro brief

February 2

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that D.C. could take a lesson from Chicago in its handling winter weather, The Washington Post reported. Obama's daughters' school, the Sidwell Friends School, was closed because of winter weather Wednesday, something he said would never happen in Chicago, which has not closed its public schools for weather-related reasons since 1999.

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'Lungs' debuts lack fresh air

February 2

Benjamin Bear "Lungs" (Self-Released) Sounds like: That weepy kid who sat next to you in geometry glass, given his first piano Grade: B Benjamin Bear describes their music as "stargazer," but they don't shoot nearly that high. On "Lungs," their debut album, the team of Mychal Cohen on piano and David Stern on drums creates a layered sound while working within the limited confines of their instruments, but clearly seem to hold back in their effort to create the feeling of looking up at stars.

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Opinion

Correction for Jan. 28

February 2

In "AU discusses Gaza conflict," The Eagle incorrectly reported that Emily Siegel and Irene Nasser were graduate students in SIS. In fact both have already graduated from the university. The Eagle regrets the error.

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NGA scenic art exhibit evokes golden history

By Ali Goldstein | February 2

The National Gallery of Art is going Dutch. Pedestrians ambling along Amsterdam canals; boats filling the harbor; vintage maps with smoothed-out folds: the newly-opened exhibit at the NGA offers sweeping Dutch cityscapes with dazzling attention to light and detail.

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Sports

AU wins 78-65

By Justin Hall | February 2

Faced with a 62-all tie with nine minutes remaining in yesterday's Phil Bender game against Lafayette College, seniors forward Brian Gilmore and Garrison Carr combined to score 10 of the team's final 16 points as the Eagles pulled away for a 78-65 victory.

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Sports

Ryan, Eagles win 72-61

By Justin Hall | February 2

Senior guard Nicole Ryan scored a game-high 17 points, including 11 in the second half alone, to help the Eagles capture a road victory over the Lafayette College Leopards Saturday afternoon. The win improved AU's league record to 5-2 and overall mark to 15-7 on the season.

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Opinion

U.S. war criminals are still criminals

By Jacob Shelly | February 2

For eight years George Bush's lackeys took America's moral compass and discombobulated it with the magnets of torture, extraordinary rendition and so many other excesses that were seemingly justified just because they appeared alongside the words "War on Terror.

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Sports

D.C. hoops struggle

By Shaun Flynn | February 2

When are D.C.'s winning woes going to end? In the fall, the Nationals finished in last place in Major League Baseball with a record of 59-102. Even with a new, state-of-the-art stadium, the Nationals could not muster enough fan support or talent to put up a fight against the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Florida Marlins and Atlanta Braves of the NL East.

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Opinion

AU's construction secrets

February 2

In recent years, the university has embarked on a construction binge as it expanded the Kogod School of Business, renovated the bridge and front steps of Mary Graydon Center and began construction on a new School of International Service building. It is not these projects that are troublesome; in fact, many students will agree that the renovations have added a nice new aesthetic to campus.

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Metro calendar

February 2

Monday, Feb. 2 "Tim and Eric Awesome Show" 8 p.m. WHERE: Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. N.W. METRO: Gallery Place/Chinatown (red, yellow and green lines) INFO: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim from "Tim and Eric Awesome Show" take their comedic act on the road for its second tour.

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Metro gets "On Track" with customers

By Graham Vyse | February 2

Since March of 2007, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has offered a weekly podcast on their Web site and through iTunes music store, but the podcast has gone unnoticed by some of the AU community. The podcast, called "On Track," runs 10 to 20 minutes depending on the week.

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Office chooses scholars

By Ryan Carroll | February 2

Months of hard work and nail biting are finally coming to an end for 16 AU students this week as the Office of Merit Awards begins to notify students who got accepted to the Fulbright Program. According to the Office of Merit Awards, nine AU students have made it through the first round and will be informed of this in the next few days.

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Douglass animates Black History Month

By Jeremy Pollock | February 2

As the cliché goes, "legends never die - or are at least resurrected as robots." An exhibition featuring a robotic life-sized Frederick Douglass will take place in Southeast D.C. during the first week of February for Black History Month. This exhibition, however, promises to be more than a simple gimmick.

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