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  • Internship Gives Students Valuable Work Experience

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Anna Horvai

    Sitting at her desk at the United Communications group office, senior Jillian Moskovitz carefully enters data into a spreadsheet. She then writes a few e-mails and goes to a board meeting with her co-

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  • Volunteer Firefighters and EMTs Balance School, a Social Life, and Community Service

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Katherine Martinez

    A woman lay dying in the ambulance. Senior John Farrell waited for the paramedic to finish administering shocks and pumping epinephrine into her so he could jump in and perform CPR and chest compressi

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  • Freshman Keeps Head High Despite Disability

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Colin Calder

    Freshman Sarah Butler continues to prove people wrong and overcome obstacles. Butler was born legally blind and continues to take regular paced classes, not letting her disability get in her way.

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  • He Parties Like it's 1771

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Lindsay Deutsch

    Freshman Gabe Schwartzman was just a typical teenager with a fondness for history when he read an ad in The Washington Post about the Claude Moore Colonial Farm needing help. Then, before you could sa

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  • CurveballPutting the

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Carl Woock

    Despite the misleading name, Thanksgiving Day isn’t a holiday that should be wasted on thankfulness and humility. Screw that. Thanksgiving is all about survival, and if you lose your wits for even a m

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  • Students Perform Politically-Charged Play

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Lauren Kaplan

    Jumping into the pit of controversy and taking a bold risk, the Walter Johnson S*T*A*G*E program made history by being one of the first high schools to present the play, The Exonerated. Jessica Bl

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  • Peace Garden Honors Deceased Students

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Jametria Elmore

    Science teacher Corky Logsdon has put the finishing touch on the memorial peace garden that was created last May 2005, along with seniors Steven Braun and Brett Linowes, in memory of the late Walter J

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  • Competitive Clubs Outsmart County Rivals

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Jared Schneider

    In keeping with Walter Johnson’s tradition of successful inter-scholastic competitive clubs, the school’s Debate, Forensics and Mathletes teams have each achieved success early in their seasons.

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  • No Day But Today for Movie Musicals

    Monday, November 21, 2005 By: Jenny Schulz

    Ah, the movie musical. When these two words are put together, there are two possible reactions. Many think of excessively dramatic actors prancing around in front of a camera as they over-enunciate wo

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  • The Goblet’s on FireThe Fourth Potter Installation Keeps Audience Spellbound

    Tuesday, November 22, 2005 By: Lindsay Deutsch

    The problem with converting any cult novel into a cult film is simple: an exact transcript of the book would be boring, and anything beyond a replication would be seen as a literary travesty. There’s

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Mexican-American writer Richard Rodriguez once said in an interview, "Affirmative action ignores society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have th
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Cross CountryBoys: 7-0 Girls: 3-4No JV teamThe boys cross country team had a winning year, finishing the regular season undefeated and placing fourth at the Regional meet. Despite their losing sea
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Every Sunday football fans sit down in front of their televisions and watch gifted warriors battle it out on the gridiron. But most people don’t realize that some of these athletes are home grown tale
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As I write this article, I am sitting in what is known in the newspaper world as “press.” Press is the last-minute, no-holds-barred editing bonanza that goes on immediately before a paper is sent to t
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In a stunning victory for environmentalists and people with a moral conscience, provisions to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil were recently dropped from the Budget Bill in the Hou
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Dear Editor,Just as the writer of last month’s piece “Basic Education Meets Basic Training: Boot the Recruiters,” I was “left wondering” if sometimes metaphors are so poorly used that they add a tone
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Coming off of a season which included a run to the third round of the regional playoffs, as well as an easy win in the Woodlawn Lady Warrior Tournament, the Walter Johnson girls varsity basketball tea
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In Bill Morris’s third year in his second stint as head coach of the basketball team, productivity from his frontcourt players will be the deciding factor towards another losing season or the first wi
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Walter Johnson has never been considered the cream of the crop when it comes to varsity football. Only managing to win a grand total of 12 games since 2000, the football team headed into this season w
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