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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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Students Perform Politically-Charged Play
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
full story 
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
full story 
Dancing The Mid-Afternoon Away: With Extra Photos...
Monday, November 21, 2005 By Zoe Bambery
Three-time Senior Citizens Luncheon attendee and daily visitor to the Bethesda Fellowship House Bill Procopiow said he was happy to be given the chance to be around people who were not “hunched over a
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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.
full story 
Exclusive Q&A with a New Orleans College Counselor
Monday, November 21, 2005 By Danny Fersh
Hurricane Katrina has made applying for college a far more complicated process than it already was for all parties involved. Computers are flooded, essays are gone, test scores are lost, and schools a
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MCPS Wins Supreme Court Case
Monday, November 21, 2005 By Danny Fersh
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled in Schaffer v. Weast that the burden of proof lies with the parents of special education students in determining whether or not their child received inad
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School Board Works on New Sex-Ed Curriculum
Monday, November 21, 2005 By Julia Shedlin
After a year of controversy, the Montgomery County school board’s proposed sex education curriculum remains untaught. The school board, as part of a law settlement, formed an advisory board that allow
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