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January 29

Thumbs Up To... AU's snow removal - Thanks to the diligent and hardworking staff who helped dramatically reduce the number of us who fell unceremoniously on our butts. Eagle staff experience with busting up ice proves that it is no cakewalk. It takes hard work, time and effort.

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Campus calendar

January 29

Thursday, Jan. 29 Lecture: "Views from Behind the Podium" 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Bender Arena INFO: Former White House Press Secretaries Ari Fleischer and Dee Dee Myers will talk about a press secretary's impact during the presidential administration's first days and will answer questions at this Kennedy Political Union-sponsored event.

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News

Iraqi program seeks to send students to foreign colleges

By Marisa Kendall | January 29

A new Iraqi government initiative may soon bring more of the country's students to U.S. universities, but the AU department of International Student and Scholar Services does not anticipate that the initiative will noticeably increase the number of international students on campus.

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Metro brief

January 29

The number of infants and toddlers with dangerously high levels of lead in their blood more than doubled after harmful amounts of lead entered the D.C. water supply between 2001 and 2004, according to a study cited in The Washington Post. The study was based on blood tests from thousands of children before and during the time when the lead was in the water supply.

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Students head to LGBT conference

By Anna Tuman | January 29

While attending the Creating Change Conference in Denver this week, members of the AU Queers and Allies group are looking forward to picking up new insights and ideas about how to advocate for change on AU's campus. "I hope to build new connections with political and movement leaders, strengthen existing connections, make new friends who are doing activism around the country and learn new ideas for my future advocacy here at AU, on Capitol Hill and back home in Anchorage," said Tonei Glavinic, coordinator of the AU Transgender Advocacy Project, an AU Queers and Allies program.

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Sports

Kirk scores 25 in defeat

By Justin Hall | January 29

New career highs in points for sophomore forwards Michelle Kirk and Liz Leer were not enough for the AU women's basketball team to overcome the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen last night at Bender Arena, losing by a final score of 68-61. The loss drops the Eagles' record to 14-7 overall and 4-2 in the Patriot League.

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Campus brief

January 29

Six Kogod School of Business students placed third in a Divine Chocolate marketing competition sponsored by Divine Chocolate. The participants teamed up to create a marketing campaign to introduce Divine Chocolate to college students. Parts of the competition included creating an executive summary, doing research on their market and compiling a budget plan, according to a Kogod press release.

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The best of the worst: closet favorites

By Caitlin E Moore | January 29

The room is dark. The lights of the television screen flicker. The flashes illuminate the ear-to-ear smile that occupies your face. However, you're nervous. Your finger is hovering above the pause button on the remote, should someone walk in and interrupt your private happiness.

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Sports

Manny being Manny still best in MLB

By Josh Levitt | January 29

Over the final two months of the 2008 season, Manny Ramirez put up historic numbers with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ramirez, 36, hit an astounding .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBIs over the final two months of the regular season as the Dodgers surged to win the NL West.

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Sports

Big East, ACC Dominate AP Men's College Basketball Polls

By Tim Lynch | January 29

Dominance was the only word that can be used to describe this week's Associated Press top 25 teams. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big East Conference represented 11 teams in the top 25. Not to mention seven of the top 10. To put this in perspective, eight conferences represented the remaining 14 schools.

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AU discusses Gaza conflict

By Meg Fowler | January 29

AU's Dialogue Development Group assembled members of the AU community Monday evening for what was for some their first experience conversing with each other on issues regarding the violence in the Middle East. DDG, a student group created as a forum for using dialogue skills learned in the classroom, hosted a group of about 25 students and faculty for the dialogue.

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'Cherry Orchard' branches off into active comedy

By Ty Budde | January 29

Somewhere in a maze of highway out by the Pentagon there is a side-road, and down that side-road - through the overgrowth and past an abandoned car and a moldy couch - is a crumbling brick building with the word "PLAYHOUSE" in giant letters painted across it.

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Committee offers inauguration memorabilia

By Clint Rice | January 29

Some AU students who had tickets to President Barack Obama's inauguration last week but were unable to view it said they do not plan to claim the free commemorative items offered by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inauguration Ceremonies. Committee spokeswoman Carole Florman told The Washington Post that ticketholders in the event's purple section who were unable to see the Inauguration will be able to receive copies of the invitation and program, as well as a color print of the ceremony and photos of Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

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District duo turn Black Cat club golden

By Ali Goldstein | January 29

Jason Hutto, the keyboardist and vocalist for the D.C. duo The Aquarium, is a full-body performer. Coaxing the perfect sound out of the keyboard, he kicks his legs wildly behind him and shakes his shaggy hair. At the band's Sunday night show at the Black Cat backstage, Hutto and drummer Lauren Harris performed facing each other on stage, each one feeding off the other's sound skillfully, resulting in high-energy harmony.

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The Week in Fun Calendar

January 29

Thursday, Jan. 29 Dancing with the Stars 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Verizon Center, 601 F St. N.W. METRO: Gallery Place-Chinatown (red, green and yellow lines) INFO: Yes, the tickets are expensive, but just think to that day in the distant future when you'll brag to your grandkids about seeing that one girl from 90210 kind of dance.

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AU prepares for new budget

By Jen Calantone | January 29

AU is preparing for its next budget cycle in problematic economic times - students and parents are struggling to make ends meet, potential students are rethinking decisions to attend a private university and the stock market has dipped well below where it was a year ago.

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Sports

An alternative look at sports

By Andrew Tomlinson | January 29

On the first football-free Sunday of the year, alternative sports took center stage. With the Super Bowl less than a week away, the sports media is a buzz about the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. While Ben Roethlisberger and the Kurt Warner are the center of attention now, several different athletes grabbed the spotlight last weekend, including snowboarding's Shaun White and figure skating's Alissa Czisny.

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