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By Nick Falgout | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »

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."

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.

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Halle Berry, actress and model.

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Senior Nathan Barrymore skates with the puck against Broadneck.

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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.

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

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

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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.

Nat King Cole

By Zahra Gordon | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Jazz musician Nat King Cole, like many great black entertainers, was first introduced to music in church. Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama to Reverend Edward James Coles, Sr. and Perlina Adams Coles. Cole was one of 13 children, but only five of his sisters and brothers grew up to be adults.

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Metro's Dunn Loring Station

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Nat "King" Cole, jazz musician.

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.