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Lost in the excitement surrounding Super Bowl XLV was yesterday's kickoff of another contest that has the potential to be even more bone-jarring - that is, the debate between the Virginia House of Delegates and the State Senate about appropriations for the final 16 months of the state's two-year budget.
MYTHS CAN be difficult. I once began a newspaper story by saying some idea or other had sprung from a county supervisor's head fully formed, like Venus from the head of Zeus.
The political character of college campuses is the subject of much debate among pundits and the like.
THE MOST inspiring, most powerful and most beautiful advancement of human civilization is not the Great Pyramid of Giza or any other of the Seven Wonders.
IN ORDER to make any endeavour a valuable experience, one must work hard at it and sustain the effort.
Many University faculty focus their instruction on the past in the hopes that their students may apply the lessons learned to the future.
The lead editorial "Book Smart" (Feb. 1) was a blatantly inaccurate debasing of the Commerce School curriculum.
Define successful. Science, Technology and Society
ONE OF my friends just started a semester abroad in Antwerp, Belgium. Aside from getting used to all the nuances of living in a new culture, one of the biggest surprises she found was that "most people don't speak English." While English is the lingua franca or international language of the world, many people still do not speak it well enough to have more than a basic conversation.
The conclusions reached by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services in their new policy document "Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010" hardly seem surprising: Americans should consume less sugar, saturated fat and sodium while scaling up their intake of fruits and vegetables.
ACROSS the nation, states are facing increasing fiscal pressure, resulting both from long-term liabilities like unfunded pension plans and from an unsustainable dependence on infusions of federal money.
WHILE the Commerce School is not perfect, The Cavalier Daily should leave the non sequiturs about the Commerce School on the comics page.
COMMENCEMENT is a time to celebrate and for many the time to breathe a huge sigh of relief. The all-nighters have finally paid off and we, the college graduates, are on our way to pursuing our childhood dreams.
NOT SURPRISINGLY, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was chosen as the commencement speaker for the Class of 2011.
EVERYONE loves local news stations. Maybe part of that is from the culture of "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," but who doesn't love the fun banter and painfully forced earnestness of reporting on fluff pieces as if they were apocalyptic calamities?
