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It's official: Will Smith can do anything. Quick addendum: Will Smith can do anything,assuming "anything” refers to playing cocky characters in highly entertaining films. Smith has always been good for a snarky line here, a goofy grin there. He doesn't disappoint in his romantic comedy debut, the light and witty "Hitch."

OxyContin: a prescription for addiction

By Katherine Duncan | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Joe, a junior, sits silently amongst a boisterous group of friends along Blair Boulevard during 5B lunch on Dec. 22. After shooting paranoid glances up and down the hall, he is confident that the coast is clear and opens his hand, revealing a 10-mg OxyContin prescription pill. His back turned against the passing crowds in the hallway, Joe works quickly, crushing the pill with his driver's license and pushing the powder into a thin line on the cover of his student planner. In a matter of seconds, he snorts the drug through a pen cap and up his nose, brushes any residue onto the floor and leans back into the wall.

Photo: PLayerplayoff

By Diana Frey | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Senior Nathan Barrymore skates with the puck against Broadneck.

Phillis Wheatley

By Erik Li | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Phillis Wheatley was the first noteworthy black female poet of the U.S. In the fight for black freedom, abolitionists often cited her works in order to refute the claim of black intellectual inferiority. Thought to be born near present-day Senegal in about 1753, Wheatley was kidnapped and enslaved in 1761. She was sold in Boston to the Wheatley family, who treated her as kindly as their own two daughters.

Photo: confessions of a shopaholic

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Photo: Sir William Arthur Lewis

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Sir William Arthur Lewis, a pioneer in economics and the first black to receive the Nobel Prize for a field other than peace.

Sir William Arthur Lewis

By Grace Harter | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Sir William Arthur Lewis was a pioneer for his race as well as a pioneer in the study of economics. He was the first black individual to receive the Nobel Prize for a field other than in peace. In 1979, he was awarded the prize for his study of the economic structures of developing countries and for his books on achieving a governmental structure and stable economy. Lewis worked throughout his lifetime to develop models for business between countries of varying economic stability.

Photo: "Hitch" still 2

By | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Love patient Albert Brennaman (Kevin James) shows off some dance moves to date doctor Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith).

Photo: MaryPIRG - Press Conference

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SGA president Sebastian Johnson speaks at a press conference about vehicle emissions regulation.

Photo courtesy of Sebastian Johnson

Photo: Ballston MU - Kenny's

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

A hair salon near Ballston MU.

Photo: Metro Car 2

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Metro Car

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Photo: Metro Car 3

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Photo: Oxycontin

By Elena Pinsky | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

OxyContin, a drug to which some Blair students have become addicted.

Photo: Thank You For Riding

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Blair swimming drops to Division II

By Kristina Yang | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In Print »

FEB. 12, MONTGOMERY AQUATIC CENTER-- For the last few seasons, the Blair swim team has teetered on the edge between Division I and Division II, its place in the former secured mostly by the strength of its boys' team. After narrowly escaping demotion to Division II at the end of last season after the boys finished fifth and the girls placed sixth at Divisionals (Watkins Mill, with its sixth-place boys and fifth-place girls, went down instead), the Blazers had hoped to avoid demotion once again this year because of an especially strong boys lineup.