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Review: Women As Lovers; B

February 7

Xiu Xiu "Women As Lovers" Kill Rock Stars Sounds like: Pop songs with interesting noises and uncomfortable lyrics. Xiu Xiu's latest album is hardly an aberration from their previous five LPs of challenging, confrontational and surprisingly listenable tracks, although there are some subtle developments.

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Starbucks in Prague evokes mixed emotions

By Kendra Garstka | February 7

Two weeks ago, while receiving my first official tour of Prague, my group witnessed what some would call a momentous occasion - the opening of the first Starbucks in the city. Of course, members of my group insisted on visiting the coffeehouse, which opened Jan.

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Sports

Winter weather can't cool off AU athletics

By Anna Tuman and Justin Hall | February 7

Now that the snow is melting and the temperatures are starting to rise, thoughts across campus are already turning toward spring. However, as the calendar turns from January to February, let's not forget the men and women of AU athletics. It's time to do a quick recap on all the Eagles to see where they stand going into the Patriot League championship season.

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In search of booty: Getting off cums easy with intimacy

By JANE DE BELLEVILLE and JACK RACKAM AND GRACE O'MALLEY | February 7

According to popular logic, the point of having sex is to orgasm, to cum, to get off, show off your "O" face - you get the idea. But what if it isn't? And what happens when you don't? According to the 2000 Orgasm Survey, 72 percent of women have faked an orgasm at some point in their most recent or current relationship, while 24 percent of men admit to the same.

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Campus brief

February 7

Edgar Meza last week resigned as executive chair of the Graduate Leadership Council, according to Kimberly Herrera, Student Activities adviser for the council. Meza, a graduate student in the Kogod School of Business, became head of the GLC over the summer break and was one of the people who met with finalists for the university's presidential search.

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Sports

Spygate scandal: Don't we have better things to worry about?

By John Adams | February 7

Apparently, being dropped in the Super Bowl by the underdog Giants was not the worst news of the weekend for the New England Patriots organization. OK, maybe not. But with the never ending "Spygate" scandal going as strong as ever, the media focus will not be shifting from the franchise any time in the near future.

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Audience prompts hilarity at Precipice Improv Theater

By Tyler Budde | February 7

"Well-trained and brilliant? Or really, really foolish?" This statement from the program for Precipice Improv Theater's first performance of a nine-show run Saturday at The Writer's Center in Bethesda captures its essence. Precipice creates full-length, entirely improvised plays using two locations randomly decided by the audience.

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Sports

Team USA heads to Bender for wrestling meet

By Justin Hall | February 7

The red, white and blue of AU's student athletes will be replaced by the stars and stripes of Team USA wrestling when they takes on the Belarus national team Thursday inside Bender Arena. AU head coach Mark Cody, along with his AU assistants, were chosen as the coaches for Team USA, whose squad includes two nationally No.

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Artist branches out in Katzen exhibit

By Kristen Powell | February 7

Artist William Christenberry is no stranger to odd looks from store clerks. During a tour of his new exhibit "Site/Possession," which opened Tuesday at the AU Museum, the artist recounted one such instance. "'I have to ask, sir,'" Christenberry recalled the cashier saying, "'What are you going to do with 20 G.

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Crow spreads wings with political album

February 7

Sheryl Crow "Detours" A&M Sounds like: A date with mainstream pop that went awry and ended with Crow slapping it in the face. Sheryl Crow herself probably couldn't have predicted this album as the next step in her career - it is transparently a product of the twists and turns her life has taken in the past few years.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: A vote for cheaper textbooks

February 7

Not to reiterate a point we made in our Sunday staff editorial, but college costs are insurmountably high. Tuition costs are rising faster than inflation while loan companies are decreasing their private loan application acceptance rate, creating a financial catastrophe that no student should face.

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Some AU facilities unavailable during inauguration event

February 7

AU President Neil Kerwin's inauguration ceremony and a subsequent reception will affect the university's class schedule and the availability of certain venues on campus Feb. 8. The inauguration will begin 11 a.m. in Bender Arena, while the reception begins 2 p.

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Taxi drivers strike on rotating schedule to protest meter switch

By Maureen McCarty | February 7

Private car companies stepped in Monday to compensate for D.C. taxi drivers' absence during the 12-hour strike against a planned switch from a zone to meter system. Cab drivers are prepared to strike one day a week on a rotating schedule until April, when the switch is supposed to go into effect, Taxicab Industry Group President William Wright said in a press release.

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Metro brief

February 7

Presidential campaign finance reports filed last week revealed that D.C.-area donors contributed nearly three times as much to the Democratic presidential candidates as to their Republican counterparts, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Overall, the Democrats received $21.

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Review: 'In Bruges' restores faith in Farrell's acting abilities

By Vanessa C. Mueller | February 7

When last seen gracing the celluloid of a major motion picture, Colin Farrell's greasy mug was playing Sonny Crocket in the forgettable screen adaptation of "Miami Vice." Since then, the star has landed his body in rehab and appeared to push his career into a state of similar purgatory.

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Congress to review textbook legislation

By Christopher Cottrell | February 7

The House of Representatives will vote today on legislation that aims to curtail the rising costs of textbooks at colleges nationwide, according to Rachel Racusen, a spokeswoman for the House Education and Labor Committee. The legislation may have a positive impact on students and college bookstores, Cliff Ewert, vice president of media relations at Follett Corporation, the AU Campus Store's supplier, said in an e-mail.

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Opinion

In my humble opinion: Time to revise AU smoking policy

By Peter Brusoe | February 7

No issue divides the campus community as much as the issue of smoking. Student opinion breaks down into two camps. One side advocates for a total ban on smoking. The other side views any infringement upon smoking as a personal affront. While student leaders quibble back and forth, the rest of us are kept in perpetual limbo.

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