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  • Students Seek Out Unique Learning Experience in Israel

    Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By: Sam Kider

    Following the recent war between Israel and Lebanon, four WJ students will have the opportunity to travel to Hod HaSharon, Israel and study in an English-speaking school for eight weeks.

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  • Boys Soccer Earns First 4A State Title: Team caps incredible run with bizarre tie in final

    Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By: Alex Siegel

    On the cold, dreary evening of Monday, Nov. 20, hundreds of WJ students, faculty, alumni and Bethesda residents packed the bleachers at University of Maryland Baltimore County to watch the WJ boys var

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  • Boys Basketball Preview

    Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By: Max Lom

    Thirteen wins and a third-round playoff appearance spelled a successful season for the boys basketball team, but after losing nine players from last season to graduation, the team must start from scra

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  • Girls Basketball Preview: Girls search for complement to Chili

    Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By: Jared Schneider

    After a relatively disappointing 2005-2006 season culminating in a tough 50-53 first-round playoff exit at the hands of arch-rival Churchill, the WJ girls basketball team is looking to return to the f

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  • Crucible Captivates Relocated Audience at Temporary Location

    Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By: Lindsay Deutsch

    Lights dimmed. Excited chatter hushed. Proud parents clutched bundles of roses. Silenced cell phones retreated to handbags. Just like each year at this time, everything was in place for S*T*A*G*E’

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  • TV Chef Spices Up A School Day

    Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By: Jennifer Perlmutter

    Food Network’s Sugar Rush star Warren Brown dropped by WJ on Wednesday, Nov. 15 to talk to students about his show, his D.C. store Cake Love and of course, to bake cake, or in this case, chocolate but

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  • Students Find Success in Final Frontiers

    Thursday, November 30, 2006 By: James Kruger

    Two WJ students placed in the MCPS-wide Final Frontiers competition, hosted by Wootton High School on Nov. 11. The competition challenges students from grades 5 to 12 with space-related engineering a

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  • Girls Basketball Searches for Complement to Chili

    Thursday, November 30, 2006 By: Jared Schneider

    After a relatively disappointing 2005-2006 season culminating in a tough 50-53 first-round playoff exit at the hands of arch-rival Churchill, the WJ girls basketball team is looking to return to the f

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  • Future Collegiate Athletes Lead Swim Team

    Thursday, November 30, 2006 By: Allie Seale

    After winning the county championship and placing fourth in the Metro championship last year, the WJ Swim and Dive team has high hopes for the 2006-2007 season.

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  • CurveballTo Pwn or Not to Pwn

    Thursday, November 30, 2006 By: Zoe Bambery

    Slang is an inherent part of high school: our parents made liberal use of “groovy,” our grandparents used “the bees’ knees,” and we “pwn.”

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SSL hours are one of the requirements for graduation that students often find quite tedious. Although the activities can be boring, some WJ students have found interesting and creative ways to earn t
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VolunteeringThe Unnecessary Requirement
It is a fallacy that MCPS thinks it has a right to load even more work requirements on their students before graduation. Volunteering is a necessary thing to do within every society, but adding it ont
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Students Devote Hours to Community Service
Most students at WJ have no problem meeting the 60 required SSL hours. Many even exceed the 60 hours and reach 100 to 200 hours of community service.
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The recent mandate from the State of Maryland requiring that MCPS increase the number of Student Service Learning (SSL) hours required for graduation from 60 to 75 has sparked controversy in the Maryl
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Bright Eyes, the folk/indie/electronic band fronted by critically acclaimed songwriter Conor Oberst, has again released an album consisting of an anthology of B-sides and miscellaneous material. Their
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Imagine a movie where Will Ferrell is brushing his teeth in the morning. All of a sudden he hears a woman’s voice inside his head describing every little action he makes. In the quirky film Strang
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In Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox experiences the effects of time travel as he nearly voids his own existence. In 12 Monkeys, Bruce Willis has his own encounter with time travel when he is hospit
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Fresh off the cross country season, the indoor track team seems destined to have a successful season with many runners already in good shape from the fall season.
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With a sixth-place finish in the boys race and a tenth-place finish in the girls race at the Maryland 4A state championship, the WJ cross country team concluded its 2006 season on Nov. 11.
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In the Bible, the tower of Babel was created as a stairway and a shortcut to the heavens. In attempting to reach the heavens, the people constructing the tower were focusing on themselves as legend r
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