THE LAST shreds have been torn away. Some people had clung to minute slivers of hope that the rumors and evidence of Thomas Jefferson's affair with a slave were unfounded or mistaken.
JUST LIKE the Energizer Bunny, clever advertisements keep on going and going and going. Everyone can connect the lyrics "Da Da Da" with a shiny new Volkswagen.
WHAT'S in a name? Power and politics, that's what! One evening last week my attention was drawn to a radio news story about place-names in Maine.
THERE'S almost no way to avoid it. A presence pervades the dial, lingering over every channel like the odor of dirty gym socks.
THOMAS Jefferson was not only a prolific writer. Recent evidence regarding his affair with his slave Sally Hemings suggests he was prolific in the bedroom as well.
FREE SPEECH isn't without limit. Or so the Supreme Court has ruled. In a unanimous Supreme Court decision, Schenck v.
THIS WEEK I'm answering some of the numerous comments I received from readers in the last few weeks. The "Blizzard of 2000" One reader wrote to ask why The Cavalier Daily Web page poll referred to last week's snow as the "Blizzard of 2000." After all, our winter season is still in full force and, the reader noted, "Terms that are often used in the news media such as 'The Blizzard of 19XX' are usually assigned years later when they are examined in light of history. While it may seem more prudent to withhold titles like "Blizzard of 2000" until we're certain no competition exists in the wings, early pronouncements in the press are not out of the ordinary -- in fact, they're the rule.
IT'S GOOD to be back in Charlottesville. I learned a lot during my semester in South America. One of the most important things was simply how not to take things too seriously.
I'M SORRY, the number you have reached is not a valid number. ... About the third time I got this message, I gave up on getting some answers and reached for my coat.
LATELY it seems that the only way a student can get the Board of Visitor's attention is to threaten a lawsuit.
DID YOU ever hear the one about the guy with the hook for a hand who murdered all those people? It's a true story; I heard it from my uncle.
THEY'RE at it again. The PC Police are nailing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to the wall, blasting him for an innocuous comment.
NOTHING happened! After I spent an entire semester studying the history of America's obsession with an impending apocalypse, the latest millennial craze ended without so much as a blip on the television screen.
I HOPE the people of New Hampshire think like I do. Because of the way the primary system is set up, they'll be deciding which presidential candidates I'll be able to vote for.
WHEN THE Supreme Court of the State of Vermont ruled that the state had to grant domestic partnership or marriage rights to homosexuals, they set a flash point for a firestorm of controversy.
I'M ALL for holidays. Like most people, I enjoy receiving time off from work or school -- time to visit relatives, catch up on work, or simply sleep.
GREAT civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. once had a dream ( that one day his ideals would be honored in conjunction with those of Confederate generals Robert E.
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was sentenced to probation and counseling Thursday for putting soap in his teacher's drinking water, months after the teacher filed charges that the boy attempted to murder him with the soap -- death by Dial.
WELCOME back to the first full week of classes in 2000. In this column, I want to discuss my goals for The Cavalier Daily this semester and review some of the articles from last week's issues.
WELCOME back to the first full week of classes in 2000. In this column, I want to discuss my goals for The Cavalier Daily this semester and review some of the articles from last week's issues.
