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  • "Big Three" in Big Trouble

    Thursday, December 18, 2008 By: JJ Elliott

    General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford ask Congress for $34 billion loan to help keep auto industries from filing for bankruptcy.

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  • New Sport? No It's Gymnastics!

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Kierra Chinn

    When the winter sports season rolls around, many students overlook one sport: gymnastics. With two hour practices from Monday through Saturday, the team at Briar Woods High School deserves recognition

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  • Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly (Fa La La La La, La La La...La?)

    Thursday, December 18, 2008 By: Stephanie Johnson

    The holiday season is almost here and the big day is looming large, especially for those music lovers who are trying to get a head start on making their Christmas playlists—should they stick to the cl

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  • 2008: Year in Review

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Trenton Reed

    Briar Woods’ students and staff weigh in on the top albums, songs and films of 2008. Musically, some highlights include Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut, TV on the Radio's "Dear Science" and No Age

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  • BCS Madness

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Thomas Borkowski

    Over the past few years, the BCS standings have aroused heavy debates between sports fanatics. Many think that the system of rankings in unfair or biased and, in some ways it is.

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  • Marry Bailout!

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: John Klees

    This time last year, as all of you undoubtedly recall, I wrote an article about how Christmas became a capitalist holiday and how Americans should entirely forgo traditional holiday values, such as ge

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  • Christmas Sans the Syrup

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Abbe Ramanan

    Christmas in the film and television industry has become synonymous with the kind of canned, syrupy fare that leaves critics gagging. But this year, with melancholy pervading the minds of even the sta

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  • Somali Coastline harbors Contemporary Buccaneers

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Clarke Williams

    The concept of modern day pirates appear like a myth to the world. The only pirates we know are those seen in movies, books, and music. However, in the past few months, pirate attacks have terrorize

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  • Deerhunter's Eclipsing New Album

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Abbe Ramanan

    With Microcastle, Deerhunter creates a soft, hazy world that still manages to invoke the kind philosophical rhapsodizing that has been a part of their art-damaged sound. Withdrawing from the obtuse sq

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  • Club Hockey

    Friday, December 12, 2008 By: Josh Plumhoff

    In recent years, a rapid growth of youth hockey players in Virginia has led to the development of new leagues and organizations to accommodate these athletes. Virginia has become a hotbed for hockey

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Issue Date: Friday, December 12, 2008 Issue: Year IV Volume III Last Update: Thursday, December 18, 2008
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General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford ask Congress for $34 billion loan to help keep auto industries from filing for bankruptcy.
The holiday season is almost here and the big day is looming large, especially for those music lovers who are trying to get a head start on making their Christmas playlists—should they stick to the cl
Secrets
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America’s society has created the image that people are not right the way they are now, and girls are going to desperate measures to become perfect. This type of weight loss is mostly seen in girls,
TAG: I love you still. Be good. - God
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Perhaps radio is still as funny as it was prior to the modern sitcom. I think it is. You just have to hit the right channels in the right order.
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From the first year the schools opened, Briar Woods and Freedom have been colliding with each other in a game nicknamed the Bird Bowl.
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Briar Woods’ students and staff weigh in on the top albums, songs and films of 2008. Musically, some highlights include Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut, TV on the Radio's "Dear Science" and No Age
full story 
When the winter sports season rolls around, many students overlook one sport: gymnastics. With two hour practices from Monday through Saturday, the team at Briar Woods High School deserves recognition
full story 
Over the past few years, the BCS standings have aroused heavy debates between sports fanatics. Many think that the system of rankings in unfair or biased and, in some ways it is.
full story 
This time last year, as all of you undoubtedly recall, I wrote an article about how Christmas became a capitalist holiday and how Americans should entirely forgo traditional holiday values, such as ge
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