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Tonight: Robert Shiller, 'The Flu Season,' Van Halen
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It's Wednesday, and the work week is creeping toward an end. In and around town: Robert Shiller discusses his new book, Finance and the Good Society, The Flu Season opens at Georgetown, and Van Halen rocks Verizon.
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O and P Streets Project hopes to preserve crumbling infrastructure, streetcar tracks
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Last week marked the first completed block, 34th Street, of the District Department of Transportation's O and P Street Rehabilitation Project, which focuses on seven streets in Georgetown.
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ACC realignment weakens Georgetown's Big East
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Syracuse and Pittsburgh are jumping ship for the Atlantic Coast Conference, and Connecticut and Rutgers may be next, leaving Georgetown in a weaker Big East — at least for now. Is the conference doomed, or well-positioned for a rebound?
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U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2012 ranks Johns Hopkins, Georgetown in top 25
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U.S News & World Report has released its eagerly anticipated, hotly debated, and otherwise adverb-inducing rankings of the country's best colleges, and they're giving those annoying-but-promising kids at Georgetown University another excuse to walk around town with their chins held uncomfortably high in the air. The school fell one spot to 22nd, but beat out all others in the immediate D.C. area. Here's how all the region's schools fared.
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Georgetown ranked 166th by QS World Universities' top 300 international colleges
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Despite that recent, minor international incident, Georgetown University has a lot going for it: Computer geeks, future politicians, foreign students love it there, and the food's pretty good, too (according to Newsweek, anyway). Which is why we're a little baffled about the school's ranking on a new list of the world's top 300 colleges.
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Colon cleansing is bad for you, says Georgetown doctor
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Going on a post-summer cleanse? While you're busy embracing all sorts of new-age health fads, you may want to avoid having herbal water shot up your large intestine: according to a Georgetown University physician, colonic irrigation is more than just uncomfortable; it's actually bad for you.
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Joe Biden, in China, makes the Georgetown Hoyas his first stop
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Vice President Joe Biden traveled all the way across the world to watch a college basketball team that practices mere blocks from his D.C. home. OK, maybe he's also in China to convince our country's biggest lender that America's economic policies — and politicians — aren't really as whack as they seem.
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Georgetown University students are slowly dominating the Hill
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In the world of Hill staffers, there's Georgetown — and then there's everyone else, including the Ivy Leaguers. Of the 319 congressional staffers featured in National Journal's Hill People 2011, 10 are Hoya alums. Yale was second, with seven, and five each graduated from Columbia, Virginia Tech, and the universities of Notre Dame, North Carolina, and Arizona.
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Debt ceiling: Students write letter to Barack Obama (video)
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For weeks now, our nation's highest elected officials have been working overtime to reach a deal that would prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt. You can assume President Obama understands the importance of finding a solution — that our economic stability, and his reelection, hang in the balance. But just to make sure, a bunch of annoying Georgetown students have sent him a letter reminding him that, you know, something needs to be done.
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D.C. job fair attracts 2,000
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Want a job at one of D.C.'s universities? Get in line with the 2,000 others who also do.
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Annoying Georgetown students are D.C.'s least favorite
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According to an incredibly unscientific poll, Georgetown University is home to the most annoying student body in the District.
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New study: America needs more college-educated workers
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America has lost its global position.
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Georgetown study: Pay gap between minorities, Whites still widespread
CommentResearchers expected to find a pay gap between men and women as well as between whites and minorities in a recent study. But the gap was surprisingly wide and widespread.
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Hot girls and fetus posters: The week in college sex
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The 18-to-21 set expounds on fetus posters, hot ladies, and in-class bikinis.
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Sexual myth-busters: The week in college sex
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The 18-to-21 demographic weighs in on campus rape, failed sex shops, and how to have sex with HIV.
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Sexually assaulted in college? Prove it
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The University of Maryland holds victims of sexual assault to a higher standard.
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DDOT criticizes Georgetown University campus plan
DDOT says it cannot support the Georgetown University campus plan. The agency was critical of the school’s failure to deliver adequate studies on the effects of the proposed changes. [The Georgetown Metropolitan]
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Georgetown robbery: Students held at gunpoint
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Early Saturday morning, three armed men forced their way into a home on the 3500 block of S Street Northwest.
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