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Aaron Eisen


Rain down

All money comes with strings attached; the strings of money itself. You can feel the value of a dollar; not truth, or justice, whose values are known and seldom felt, perhaps not even by Jefferson.

No surprizes

"The Pulitzer is for the birds - for the pullets. It's just a dummy newspaper publicity award given by crooks and illiterates." So wrote Saul Bellow, in his novel "Humboldt's Gift," which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Behind enemy deadlines

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Citizens and journalists gathered in the University's Nau Hall last Saturday to discuss the future of citizenship and journalism in this country.

Major Major Major Major

They came to the University with many passions that did not quite add up to a degree. If they knew what interested them they could select a major.

The taxonomy of surplus

IF ANYONE might remember the Charlie Sheen surge of late February and early March 2011, it could in fact be literary scholars.

Defining the race

Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, the daughter of Amy Chua, - author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" - has been a musician for some time.

Two-thousand eleven

As an Opinion columnist, when opinions are commonplace and political views especially noxious, I have tried to cut under, reach over, look past - to preposition my way when facing the political.

Rappers and philosophers

Kanye West has had Thanksgiving on lock. For some seasons, his albums have dropped right before the holiday break; the cold beats, nostalgia lyrics and hospitality toward guests evoke the homecoming spirit of the season.

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