AS A NAVY pilot in Vietnam Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plane was shot down. He landed in a lake in Hanoi, badly injured, with both arms and one leg broken.
WHAT DO you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. What do you call a single lawyer that falls asleep during his client's capital murder case?
THERE IS a lot of talk at the University about our peer institutions and how we rank with our top academic and sports competitors.
THEY'RE an interesting thing, these primaries. Above all, it's fascinating that in the age of television and the Internet, politicians still must go around the country, campaigning from state to state as if they were snake oil salesmen traveling on the carnival circuit.
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.
THE INMATES run the asylum at the University. Self-governance is a source of institutional pride and provides invaluable experience to students.
IT'S ALL too common at this University -- on these pages, especially -- that the administration's actions are greeted with the question, "What's in it for me?" We all want to know what the administration has done for us lately.
WE MAY HAVE won a victory, but we haven't won the war. This past fall, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to uphold the University's current race-conscious admissions policy, despite outside pressure from right wing groups, specifically the ironically named Center for Equal Opportunity, to eliminate the policy.
IMAGINE if a year consisted solely of autumn and winter. These two seasons would dominate the weather patterns, leaving spring and summer forgotten.
RICHMOND - The musty odor of sneakers in an elementary school gymnasium poll site. A whiff of cologne from a sharply dressed advisor at Texas Gov.
THEY ONLY come out at night, but they're men and women on a mission. They bend over, crouch or kneel at intervals.
ALEXANDRIA - Campaigns require a lot of small choices. Unlike major policy stances, these individual decisions often go unnoticed by the general public.
AS PART OF THE process of applying to graduate schools, I'll have to make several visits to other universities over the next few weekends.
I'M IMMENSELY thankful I have a father. I can't imagine growing up without one, probably because mine has been by far the most important influence in my life.
AS A RESULT of his offensive comments in a December interview with Sports Illustrated, relief pitcher John Rocker has been suspended from baseball, put on the trading block by his team - the Atlanta Braves - and has become a pariah in sports and society in general.
STUDENT COUNCIL has a reputation as a do-nothing body among students. Lately though, not only has Council been proactive, but for once it has gone too far. On the upcoming ballot, Council has decided to put the question of the formal rush date before the students.
IT'S EASY to put on a drab suit, gather in Newcomb Plaza, and praise presidential candidate Bill Bradley for supporting welfare.
IN ALL this hubbub about the honor referendum to remove the seriousness clause in instances of academic cheating, no one has touched on the real issue.
I'LL ADMIT that lead editorials urging readers to vote for particular candidates make me nervous.
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.
