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(08/25/00 4:00am)
YOU MAY never have met her, you may not even have voted for her, but chances are she has touched your life in more ways than one. Virginia State Sen. Emily Couric has served the Charlottesville area for five years as an elected state official and years before as a member of the school board; now she will run in another race: a race for health.
(07/24/00 4:00am)
FROM AGE two to age six, you learned to read, tie your shoes and not to run with scissors. From eight to 12, you learned pre-algebra, that kids can be cruel, and that boys are weird and girls are, well, girls. Now you're 18, and your real education can begin.
(04/28/00 4:00am)
IT'S A MAGICAL place where Ernie dolls and toast dance from overhead mobiles and "the Love Train" is entertainment for the evening. It's not a '60s sitcom -- it's the Architecture school.
(04/21/00 4:00am)
WE WERE all at "that awkward stage" once -- pre-pubescent adolescents just figuring out the way things worked. Through it all we looked up to the big kids -- they were so cool, so grown-up, and they had none of the silly problems we did. If only we could be like them, our lives would be so much better.
(04/07/00 4:00am)
THE UNITED States has an odd reputation overseas. We are seen as progressive, yet puritan; advocates of freedom, yet strangely constrictive in our own laws. One of our major societal concerns is "political correctness," but we vote on the basis of "family values."
(03/31/00 5:00am)
WHEN'S the last time you explored the possible consequences of your 401K rollover into an IRA? Will you choose Roth or Traditional? How aggressive a portfolio? Is your money growing or leaving?
(03/24/00 5:00am)
EVER PONDER the significance of the little tag in the back of your T-shirt, or the label on your new video game? Chances are you own quite a few products with a simple slogan printed on them: Made in Taiwan.
(03/03/00 5:00am)
PEOPLE swear to things all the time. They swear they will never drink again, never speed again, never smoke again, and even never date again. But Tuesday, Virginia "leaped" into a new oath - voters swore they wouldn't vote again.
(02/25/00 5:00am)
THE TIMES, they are a-changin. Reform movements are sweeping the globe, new leaders are coming to power, and the people are crying out for a change. But have they asked themselves why?
(02/11/00 5:00am)
WE'VE ALL heard the slogan a thousand times from a thousand different people. Our parents tell us when we're young, our teachers tell us through school, at college orientation everyone tells us. "Get involved," they say, with little more instruction. On Wednesday, a former First Lady said the same thing to a standing-room-only crowd in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom -- maybe she got the message across.
(01/28/00 5:00am)
I'M SORRY, the number you have reached is not a valid number. ... About the third time I got this message, I gave up on getting some answers and reached for my coat. I had no clue whether or not I had classes, but because I'm such a conscientious student and was worried about getting kicked off several class rosters with giant waiting lists, I strapped on my boots.
(01/21/00 5:00am)
SOUTH Carolina often has been described as one of the two mountains of conceit surrounding North Carolina. We won't talk about who the other one is. Speaking as an original North Carolinian, and thus a member of the valley of humility, I figure I'm uniquely qualified to chastise our southern neighbor.
(12/03/99 5:00am)
WEDNESDAY'S Washington Post proved that America does have a culture. The story "Protests Delay WTO Opening" had many memorable images, but this was one of its best: "While the streets swirled, many businesses remained open; people sipped cappuccino behind the glass of gourmet coffee shops."
(11/19/99 5:00am)
THE REPUBLICAN nomination is Texas Gov. George W. Bush's to lose. Those stakes are high, but some are still higher: Take, for example, the place of the United States in the world. Can George W. hold on to both?
(11/05/99 5:00am)
DANGER! If you receive any e-mail within the next 24 hours, do not open it! The entire Internet is closed down for annual cleaning, so any e-mail must be a virus! My best friend's brother's dog groomer's postman knows this kid who created an all-new unstoppable Trojan Dutch Elm virus and its binary loop mechanism is attacking hard drives, floppy disks, alarm clocks and hot water heaters, and if you open it the word "scent" will be erased from the English language! Please read on for a special offer from Bill Gates ... .
(10/29/99 4:00am)
TUESDAY, Virginia's future made history. Kids from Charlottesville, Albemarle County and surrounding areas voted in the largest secure Internet election ever. In the space of 12 hours, almost 5,000 people's votes were recorded, compiled and reported to the evening news. In those 12 hours, at least part of Virginia got a glimpse of voting in the 21st century and of technology's impact on our basic human rights.
(10/22/99 4:00am)
KIDS AND politicians say the darndest things. Virginia state Sen. Emily Couric, (D-Charlottesville) and businesswoman and Senate hopeful Jane Maddux (R), faced off Tuesday night in the second debate of the Youth Leadership Initiative, sponsored by the Center for Governmental Studies. Six students from area middle and high schools each asked one question of their own choosing. Center Director Larry J. Sabato, government and foreign affairs professor, opened the debate with an appropriate comment: These kids don't know what not to ask.
(10/01/99 4:00am)
PLEASE don't vote. That way, when I vote, mine counts more, and as the newest voter in Charlottesville, I like that idea. Because if you don't vote and that guy handing out Bibles on the Corner doesn't vote, my voice counts for all three of us. With a 36-percent voter turnout in 1998, that third of the population spoke for all of us - one vote was, in effect, three.
(09/24/99 4:00am)
RUMOR has it that to live in Brown College, you must be, to put it nicely, eclectic. To live in Hereford College, you've got to love walking very long distances. But there is a third possibility: You believe in the mission of this University. Brown and Hereford, both examples of residential colleges, are modern-day interpretations of Thomas Jefferson's original plan: an academical village.
(09/10/99 4:00am)
ONE MILLION in Rwanda. Ten thousand in Kosovo. A few hundred in East Timor. These are the estimated death tolls of intra-state war in the 1990s.