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No frills, quick service highlights of Greek eatery

By Andrew Gardner | March 26

Zorba's Caf? 1612 20th Street N.W. (202) 387-8555 $7-12 for an entree Grade: B+ Sometimes there's a reason the classics are just that - the classics. Zorba's Caf? in Dupont has served D.C. since 1984 and has apparently figured out a winning formula.

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D.C. literacy below national average, study says

By Emily Blanck | March 26

Thirty-six percent of D.C. residents ages 16 and over are currently functioning at the lowest level of literacy, according to a report released last week by the State Education Agency. The lowest level of literacy is defined by the State Education Agency, as people who "can perform no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: 24-Hour Library Access: Music to Overworked Ears

March 26

Beginning this fall, the library will be open 24 hours a day from 9 a.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Friday. To compensate for the extended library hours, the Anderson Computing Complex will be closed at certain hours overnight that are yet to be determined. Student demand, as well as advocacy from SG President Ashley Mushnick, who campaigned on the issue last spring, helped bring about the change.

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Professor injects accessibility, feminism into Shakespeare

By Ali Goldstein | March 26

Department of Performing Arts professor Caleen Sinnette Jennings admitted that the first time she read "Hamlet," it turned her off. The phrase "to be or not to be" repelled her. Many years later, she developed an appreciation for the play's language when she began teaching it, but the characters remained inaccessible.

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EcoSense to participate in climate change rally

By Rebecca Kern | March 26

EcoSense, AU's student environmental group, is helping to plan and organize an April 14 rally on the National Mall called National Climate Action Day to urge Congress to address global warming issues. Claire Roby, EcoSense president and a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the rally is being planned by Step It Up, a campaign of more than 950 movements nationwide asking Congress to "step it up" by cutting carbon emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, according to its Web site.

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Firm contracted to redesign site

By Howard Perlman | March 26

Strategic design organization firm HUGE will help AU research and gather recommendations on how to revamp www.american.edu, a process some students favor. HUGE is currently assisting AU in the first phase of the Web appearance revamp process, the "discovery, research, and analysis phase.

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Opinion

GOP Meets Reality's Revenge

By Jacob Shelly | March 26

Those of us enchanted by politics are largely dreamers. Like Robert F. Kennedy, we dream of things that never were and ask why not. We ache for some magic wand to realize those dreams. In a society where it too often seems greed is glorified and corruption is congratulated, how dearly we imagine a utopia where the good prosper and the evil perish.

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Sports

March ignites a special sense of spirit

By Justin Hall | March 26

March Madness, the Big Dance, Tourney Time. Whatever term you want to use, it's that time of the year again. Where people across the country cheer for teams they have never cared about before and support players they have never heard of before. It's also a time of great school pride for millions of students across the country, wearing their school colors as their teams march towards a championship.

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Sandler gives emotional performance in 'Reign'

By Michael Carusi | March 26

The idea of two people rekindling a long-lost friendship is nothing new to Hollywood, but Mike Binder's latest film will resonate with audiences in a way that few films of such a story line could ever achieve. Binder brings together a stellar cast, realistic problems and current events to craft the superb "Reign Over Me.

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Metro brief: House vote on D.C. representative legislation postponed

By Jimm Phillips | March 26

Supporters of legislation that would give the District of Columbia a full seat in the House of Representatives temporarily postponed a vote on the measure Thursday after a Republican legislator attempted to use it as a way of weakening the District's gun restriction laws, according to The Washington Post.

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Metro calendar

By Rebecca Kern | March 26

Now through May 28 Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember - Photographs by Melody Golding Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays, noon-5 p.m. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. N.W. Metro: Metro Center (red, blue and orange lines) Fifty-three photographs by photographer Melody Golding document Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the determination of Gulf residents.

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Sports

Track teams break personal bests at Navy Invitational

By Justin Hall | March 26

This past weekend at the Navy Invitational, the AU men's and women's track teams set numerous personal best times, including three Eagles qualifying for the NCAA regional meet at the end of the season. The men's side was paced by seniors Dustin Emrani and Brendan Fennell, as well as sophomore Carlos Jamieson, who were able to run well enough to post an NCAA-qualifying time in their respective events.

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Opinion

Don't Mess with Texas (Hold 'Em)

By Caleb Enerson | March 26

With March Madness hysteria conducting its annual sweep throughout the United States, it seems a suitable time to discuss gambling. Americans love to gamble. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on gambling annually, from the lottery to horse racing to poker.

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Campus brief: Agriculture Exchange Returns to AU

By Kyra Smerkanich | March 26

A community-supported agriculture program that brings organic fruits and vegetables to campus from local farmers will begin its second year at AU, according to American Weekly. Students and faculty members can pay $485 to be shareholders, which will allow them to receive 20 weeks of fresh produce and herbs from a farm in West Virginia owned by Allan Balliett, American Weekly reported.

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'Elsinore' explores women's roles in 'Hamlet'

By Ali Goldstein | March 26

Ophelia's first appearance in "Elsewhere in Elsinore" immediately establishes just how different the play will be from "Hamlet," upon which it is based. Shoulders back and voice strong, the commanding Ophelia in "Elsinore" starkly contrasts with the desperate and enigmatic Ophelia who traipses, shadow-like, through "Hamlet.

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Senate certifies SG elections, approves first female chair

By Cassie Passinault | March 26

After a presentation by now-former Board of Elections chairman Joe Pavel, a sophomore in the School of Public Affairs, the Undergraduate Senate certified the results of the spring Student Government elections held March 5 and 6. Though many questions arose regarding the presidential elections, it was found by the BOE that neither write-in votes nor abstentions would have had an impact on the result.

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Music notes

March 26

ximer "ximer" (Kaploof Entertainment) Sounds like: Something you might hear on '80s or '90s soft-rock radio. Grade: D Al Nakari, the songwriter behind the electronic dance pop of ximer, thinks he's a pretty clever guy. If he didn't, he wouldn't have named his act by reversing the word "remix.

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