Local boy does good
WRITERS write like dogs bark. We do it because of nature and instinct. We do it because something makes us, because we're compelled to express ourselves in a certain way, at a certain volume.
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WRITERS write like dogs bark. We do it because of nature and instinct. We do it because something makes us, because we're compelled to express ourselves in a certain way, at a certain volume.
THEY'RE at it again. The PC Police are nailing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to the wall, blasting him for an innocuous comment. They couldn't be more wrong. Last week on the New Hampshire campaign trail, the Republican presidential candidate exhibited poor judgment by telling a Washington Post reporter that, while in the Navy, he could tell if some people were gay "by attitudes and behavior."
AL GORE knows pigs. That is among the messages that the vice president's newly-tweaked campaign is trying to instill in Iowa caucus-goers. It's the kind of strategy that very well could get him elected president.
I KNOW they're around here somewhere, but I can't find them. I put them in a safe place so as not to lose them, and now I've lost track of where the safe place is.
WE ARE whimpering our way into a new millennium, and we'll be lucky if anyone hears. After the flurry of historic events of the last 1,000 years, we're going out not with a bang, but with a soft whisper.
THERE comes a time in every young life when a man must clear his throat, glance casually over his shoulder to confirm that no one is looking, and admit that his mother was right.
JIMMY Fictional wants to be cool. Ever since he came to the University last fall, Jimmy has wanted to be
ACROSS these mountains, across several rivers, over used battlefields and county lines and every sort of geography but deserts, there is a place that I called home for as long as I was there.
THERE are a few secrets worth knowing and this is one of them: THE best desserts in Charlottesville are at the White Spot.
IT'S RARE to see a column inspired by hot dogs. Wurst of any kind usually don't get much press. But last week a few hot dogs did some damage to first-year students' image of the University Judiciary Committee.
IT SEEMS wrong for me to give advice to incoming first years. I don't have enough life on me to be handing out pearls of wisdom, to act as if I know something special. So I'll use a writer's favorite trick, and borrow from the best advice I ever received. It was an old mentor who told me "Remain a man of substance."
OUR TOUR guide wouldn't have cut it in America. Her voice carried no more than three feet, her composure faltered any time a motorcar honked, and she left out important information even though she went on for two hours. But what the guide of our Oxford University tour lacked in quality, she made up for in personality.