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Change and the road ahead

I HAD THE pleasure of attending the ?Now What?? discussion panel Monday evening where a group of professors and students had an extended dialogue about the implications of the 2008 election.


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Right under our noses

LAST FRIDAY I attended a forum at the Miller Center of Public Affairs in which Washington Post contributor Michael Dobbs, a specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs, discussed his research and his book on the Cuban Missile Crisis.


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You get what you pay for

THERE ARE some discouraging statistics that indicate the United States may be falling behind in the quality of its K-12 schools, and with the emerging global economy, the state of our education system may be more important now than ever.


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A doctrine of unfairness

IN THE buildup to the 2008 presidential and Congressional elections, several prominent Democratic representatives began to whisper about how a sweeping victory would offer an opportunity to reinstitute an ancient relic of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the so-called ?Fairness Doctrine.? If codified into law, the Fairness Doctrine would empower the FCC to silence any news program that it deemed was presenting blatantly biased and unbalanced coverage.


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Purple haze

NATURALLY, just about every sane person in this country is sick of politics and elections. After all, we've endured presidential campaigning for nearly two years now, and although this was undoubtedly a historic election, most people are ready for the electioneering to be over and the real work of governing to begin. While this is a more than understandable sentiment, things are a little bit different here in Virginia.


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A matter of course

THE AVERAGE course packet at Brillig Books costs $34.61. The cost of the same materials posted to Toolkit or Collab?


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The other party

LIKE MANY conservatives, I was disappointed but not surprised by the outcome of last Tuesday?s election.


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Bettering the buses

WHEN YOU are a bit behind schedule, half-walking, half-running to class on McCormick Road, there may be no finer sight than the blue and white paint of a University Transit Service bus emerging from around the corner to save you from tardiness.


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The wrong kind of change

TWO weeks ago, I wrote a column expressing my distaste for California proposition 8, a measure intended to amend the California State Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman, thereby invalidating a California Supreme Court decision to allow marriage between same-sex couples.


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Defeat with honor

WELCOME back, John McCain. After months of vigorous campaigning, tainted most notably by the unconscionable selection of Sarah Palin as a vice presidential nominee and by a vitriolic series of attack ads on Barack Obama, the real John McCain made a stunning and unexpected reappearance late Tuesday night.

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Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.