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Blazers paying the price to drive

By Stephanie Nguyen | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

On Saturday, April 17, senior Lisa Howe stopped her car at the end of Brunett Avenue, preparing to make a left turn onto University Boulevard. Checking both left and right, she saw no oncoming cars and inched the gray Camry onto the main road. Suddenly, a pick-up truck tore around the bend and slammed into Howe's Camry, hurling the Camry into a 360 spin and sending the mangled car over the median to its final resting place.

ACC Tournament 2005: NC State

By Adith Sekaran | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 17-12, 7-9 conference Coach: Herb Sendek The North Carolina State Wolfpack are the third North Carolina team in the ACC. The Wolfpack are the only North Carolina team that might not advance the NCAA tournament.

ACC Tournament 2005: Virginia Tech

By Pratik Bhandari | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 15-12, 8-8 conference Coach: Seth Greenberg (227-183) One of the true surprises of the ACC season was the wonderful play of Virginia Tech. They were the "new kid on the block" who would crumble under the enormous pressure of the hectic ACC schedule. Instead, Tech handed out some punishment of it's own, beating up on such heavyweights as Duke and Georgia Tech on their way to the fourth seed in the ACC tournament.

ACC Tournament 2005: Clemson

By Michael Bushnell | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 5-14, 5-11 conference Coach: Oliver Purnell Second year coach Oliver Purnell has the usually dreadful Clemson Tigers headed towards an NIT berth. Consistently the worst team in the ACC over the last five seasons prior, Clemson was still bad this year, Purnell lead an underclassmen-laden squad to ninth place in the league. The Tigers are anchored by Suitland, Md.'s Sherrod Ford, who led the team in points (15.6) and rebounds (8.3). Clemson, buoyed by a light non-conference schedule, started the season 7-1, but were 1-7 in ACC play before stunning then-No. 24 Maryland on Feb. 1. Including the win over the Terrapins, Clemson finished the second half of conference action with a solid 4-4 record, including a three-game winning streak. They swept Maryland this season, and also beat in-state rival South Carolina.

ACC Tournament 2005: Virginia

By Michael Bushnell | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 13-14, 4-12 conference Coach: Pete Gillen The Virginia Cavaliers enter the ACC Tournament dead last in the conference. The same team that started 6-0, including a win in November over 10th ranked Arizona bottomed out, losing their last five games of the regular season to finish with and under .500 record. Seniors Devin Smith and Elton Brown combined this year to average over points per game. But the team was plagued by poor play at the end of games, none more emblematic than their 92-89 home loss to Maryland last month, where they shot 42% from the free throw line. Head Coach Pete Gillen has not led the Cavs to the NCAA Tournament since 2001, and after yet another deeply disappointing season, his days as head coach at Virginia may be very near the end. That said, the team will return all but three players next season, including starting point guard Sean Singletary, who will be just a sophomore next year. He averaged over 10 points per game this season.

ACC Tournament 2005: Georgia Tech

By Michael Bushnell | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 17-10, 8-8 conference Coach: Paul Hewitt The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are on the NCAA Tournament bubble, but their season ending win at home against Clemson moved them to .500 in the ACC and likely in to the Big Dance. The Jackets, who made it to the National Championship game last season, before losing to UConn, struggled mightily through the first half of conference play, losing four games out of five at one point, with their only victory in that span a 102-101 win over Wake Forest at home. The team that started the year 10-2 and ranked in the Top Ten nationally was 11-5 and hurting, figuratively and literally. The team went 4-5 without B.J. Elder at guard. But the Jackets, coached by Paul Hewitt, managed to cajole a turnaround that should be enough to earn them a face-saving NCAA bid. They went 6-5 in their final 11 ACC games, with ever win during that span being followed by a loss, and vice-versa. Teams that finish .500 or better in the ACC have gotten into the Big Dance 94% of the time, so their prospects look bright at least for this year. But next year could be a struggle, as the team will lose five seniors and perhaps Jarrett Jack, a junior, who may decide to declare himself eligible for the NBA Draft. Jack led the team in points (15.9) and assists (4.6) per game, but the second, third fourth and fifth leading scorers (B.J. Elder, Will Bynum, Luke Schenscher, Isma'il Muhammad) all departing after this year. In the NCAA Tournament, where they will likely be a seven or eight seed, they could pose a very real threat to a top seed in the second round.

Photo: staff picture- Shannon Egan

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Oprah Winfrey's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" receives mixed reviews

By Zahra Gordon, Feza Kikaya | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

The highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey presentation of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" aired on Sunday, March 6, at 9 p.m. on ABC and received mixed reviews from Blair staff and students.

Photo: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" book cover

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1937.

Photo: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" movie pic

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Halle Berry and Michael Ealy during a scene in Oprah Winfrey's rendition of "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Photo: staff picture- eic Vivek

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ACC Tournament 2005: Florida State

By Adith Sekaran | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 12-18, 4-12 conference Coach: Leonard Hamilton The Florida State Seminoles are one of the two teams that have joined the ACC this season. The Seminoles are more of a football power and basketball is not supposed to be their primary sport. They were not a pleasant surprise like Miami, Florida State finished tied with Virginia with the worst record in the ACC at 4-12.

Photo: ACC Tournament Special

By Eric Hysen | March 9, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Letter to the editor: MCPS responds to food editorial

By | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Op/Ed »

MCPS Food Service Supervisor Marla R. Caplon wrote this letter to the editor in response to the Silver Chips article The inside scoop on school meals.

A moldy "Jacket"

By Grace Harter | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

In "The Jacket," Adrien Brody stumbles around, confused and dazed. "I don't know why I'm here," he says pitifully. Audience members ask themselves the same question. Brody, an Academy Award winner highly praised for his work in "The Pianist" deserves better. What is such a gifted actor doing in a poorly developed piece of fluff?

ACC Tournament 2005: Maryland

By Pratik Bhandari | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 16-11, 7-9 conference Coach: Gary Willaims (538-303) Maryland has had an extremely disappointing season. After winning the ACC Tournament last year and returning most of their starters, most fans thought that Maryland had a legitimate chance to go to the Sweet Sixteen and maybe even to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament. Now, the Terps will be lucky just to get in after being swept by Clemson and NC State, not to mention losing their final regular season game to Virginia Tech, where a win would have almost guaranteed them a spot in the big dance.

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By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Maher works hard at practice.

Photo: w team huddle

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Maher participates in a team huddle during a practice.

War, Peace and Fun in "The Pacifier"

By Joanna Pinto-Coelho | March 8, 2005, midnight | In Print »

In an upscale Bethesda, Maryland neighborhood, brilliant and burly Navy S.E.A.L. Lt. Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) is protecting a government secret. As he changes diapers, totes five children to Costco in a minivan and serves as a little girls' scout troop leader, Shane Wolfe is serving his country. Though accused of "babysitting" by the high school wrestling coach (hairy and hilarious Brad Garrett), Wolfe is on active military duty while wearing a tool belt packed with juice boxes and warm milk bottles. Wolfe is on a mission"to protect the Plummer children from deadly foreign agents trying to steal a military program that their murdered scientist father created and hid inside their home.

NFTY National Convention '05: A long trip for five great days

By Alexander Gold | March 8, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Shabbat services have just ended at the national convention of the North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY, pronounced like nifty). Everyone is dressed in their best dress clothes to celebrate the holiday. As the last few notes of the soft, melodic Shabbat melodies die out, I grab my folding chair along with 1,300 other NFTY kids and shove it into a massive pile.

Photo: Security guard featured in Washington Post

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Blair security Cedric Boatman and his family were featured in the sports section of The Washinton Post on Tuesday, March 1.

Photo: Female wrestler

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Blair's female wrestler, junior Monica Maher is already pumped for next year's wrestling season.

Photo: Junior Olympic Fencing Championships

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Senior Max Czapanskiy, right, in the 128th round of the Junior Olympic Fencing Championships. Czapanskiy placed 18th overall in the national competition, which was held from Feb. 18 to 21 in Arlington, Texas.

Photo courtesy of Max Czapanskiy

Photo: "The Jacket" poster

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