Several federal officials, including Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, and Treasury Secretary Geithner, have called for an overhaul of the financial regulatory system.
In China, one entrepreneur seems to have found the elixir of success, though it might not be as appetizing as you might expect.David Sokol, a partner of Warren Buffet and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway?s company MidAmerican Energy, watched recently as Wang Chuan-Fu, CEO of the Chinese company BYD, carefully poured and drank a sip of his company?s new nontoxic battery fluid.
Q: How long have you been a professor at U.Va.? A: I began teaching part time at the University in 1993 when Rita Dove was named Poet Laureate and I taught her classes for two years.
I?m about to finish my fourth year at the University. During my time here, I?ve studied politics, history, English, astronomy, taxonomy, gastronomy and physiognomy ? OK, the last one is just a fun word I picked up from Russian literature.
It is always a challenge for high school graduates to come to college and adjust to a completely new environment with a completely new set of people.
We recently had our first break from classes about three weeks into the semester to celebrate Holy Week, or Semana Santa, one of the biggest holidays in Peru.
The University?s Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority hosted VOICES 2009: Dancing Through Barriers Friday at 8 p.m.
Semester at Sea docked in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ? still locally referred to as Saigon ? for our eighth port visit.
The International Residential College was engulfed in controlled chaos as waiters rushed and dozens of students slurped and gobbled their way through noodles, milk tea and barbecued pork on rice.For the mostly Asian crowd at the Hong Kong Student Association?s Hong Kong Caf
As my fourth year comes to an end, I have started to think about the things that I will miss most about the University ? the lovely Grounds (and how refined I feel by calling them Grounds), my friends, those pudding parfaits that you can buy with Plus Dollars, running naked down the Lawn with 20 other people in tow and other such frivolities.
With a column title like that, you probably think I?m going to talk about that ego-craycray sunglass-mannequin Kanye West.
If you have heard opera music outside Newcomb Hall recently, you may have been within earshot of a rehearsal for Opera Viva?s spring opera performance, Mozart?s Don Giovanni.
It is easy for University students to grab a hamburger for lunch in between classes.
I just read ?The Dumbest Generation.? Cover to cover, author Mark Bauerlein posits that we digital kids are dumb because we no longer read books.
I had been looking forward to eating at Bang! for some time ? its reputation precedes itself in Charlottesville.
Cooking, as my regular readers have probably gathered, is one of my favorite pastimes.
As I walked down Karlov Street in Prague, I reflected on my mission.
As spring approaches, motorcycle enthusiasts will hit the road with a familiar rumbling thunder.
I recently had a mini existential crisis in the self-checkout line at Kroger, a place where I imagine thousands of such dilemmas have occurred, from ?But I typed in the produce code for red grapes, not green!
People?s attitudes toward dating are much like the ?Power Rangers? ? they keep changing and no one is really quite sure why.Take, for example, the Neanderthals.
