JACK RYAN'S star has fallen. The handsome millionaire Illinois Senate candidate is a candidate no longer, the Republican Party's great white hope in the liberal Midwest state undone by a public release of his sordid divorce records.
JUST AS the days get warmer with the coming of summer, political rhetoric heats up with the coming of elections.
"FAHRENHEIT 9/11,"opening weekend. Where do I begin? After hearing all of the media hype about this documentary, I decided I should go witness the commotion for myself.
FOLLOWING a federal judge's certification this week of a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, it appears likely the American public will soon witness the largest ever employment discrimination lawsuit against a corporation.
IN THE wake of President Ronald Reagan's recent death, the Cold War has re-emerged as a talking point on broadsheets and network newscasts around the country.
THE passing of Ronald Reagan invited lots of comparisons between the late leader and President George W.
THOMAS Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ as it's affectionately known to both current students and the 400-plus alumni who populate the University, has a problem.
AS AMERICA laid Ronald Reagan to rest, President George W.Bush spoke a eulogy on behalf of the former president, an actor whose final role was his most painful, one of 4.5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's.
JUST WHEN you thought your next history lesson was not until September, the powers that be have conspired to keep life academic.
WITH THE May 29 dedication of the World War II Memorial, and June 6 marking 60 years since the start of World War II's decisive battle, D-Day, the time has been ripe lately for World War II nostalgia.
EVERY NOW and then a liberal apologist will come along and try to convince the public that the mainstream American media does not present a liberal bias.
IN THE turbulent wake of the Iraq invasion, America's left-leaning squawk boxes have been hemming and hawing exuberantly over the failures -- real and imagined -- of the Bush administration's flashy foreign policy adventures in the Middle East.
LOST IN the shuffle of move-out was another unfortunate racial incident. On the evening of May 3, a Hereford resident called the police to report a suspicious-looking black man outside.
THIS SUMMER, moviegoers will have their usual fill of the crass and culturally worthless Hollywood fare.
WHILE exorbitant amounts of money are funneled into a political battle over abortion, society suffers by having to pay the opportunity cost of this ongoing dispute.
THE BOY I tutor one night brought home an assignment to write a poem. He enjoyed himself at work more than I had ever seen before.
CHARLOTTESVILLE was recently ranked number one among places to live in the United States by "Cities Ranked & Rated." While University students are fond of our college town, most would be hard-pressed to say that Charlottesville is the most exciting place to live.
I WAS sitting in my office in the Women's Center this past Friday, a glorious Charlottesville day outside my window, drifting on white lace of dogwoods, blue sky of spring.
AS THE former Chair of the Honor Committee, I have seen the best and worst of the honor system and the community of trust we live in.
WITHIN the context of its relationship with the Commonwealth, Thomas Jefferson's University is defining a new concept of "public education." A changing political landscape over the past two decades, manifested most dramatically in the ongoing budget skirmish in the General Assembly, has yielded a society in which individual interests and fiscal minimalism trump long-term community-building and public investment.
