THE FIVE seconds of awkward silence that tore through the presidential oath of office last Tuesday seemed to have awakened the entire country to the knowledge of grammatical rules that most have never bothered to enforce.
WHEN I was in elementary school, there were two other kids in my class named ?Michelle.? I was thus sulkily resigned to being known as ?Michelle L.,? and I frequently complained to my mother that I wished I could feel as singular and special as the girl who sat in front of me in homeroom, whose name was ?Destiny.? I was infinitely jealous of a family friend?s daughter named ?Starlite,? and I fantasized that I would legally change my name to ?Rose-Dust.? Then, my 10-year-old self thought ruefully, I?d never again have to look around to see if people really meant me when they called out my name.
NEITHER snow nor sleet nor dark of night keeps this University from its appointed rounds.
AS BARACK Obama swore on the Bible and took the Oath of Office on Tuesday, history of a different kind continued to be made across the globe.
THIS MONDAY was a day off from classes in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On Wednesday, on opposite sides of the South Lawn, pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students demonstrated their fidelity to their respective causes.
OOPS, HE did it again. Staring down at over a million frigid spectators at the Capitol, Barack Obama didn?t deliver a speech for the ages.The usually ebullient president-elect was grim, his face drooping under the weight of the Herculean task that lay ahead.
Anonymous sources are a problem.Some stories could never be told without them.
A FEW WEEKS ago, the University of Virginia was awarded the top spot for public schools in the ?Best Value Colleges for 2009? rankings compiled by The Princeton Review and USA Today.
THROUGHOUT the history of the United States there have been moments of seminal importance, occasions that, when we look back on them, are considered epic in their meaning for the American narrative.
ACCORDING to a news report on Monday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez believes that President-elect Barack Obama befouls his nostrils with the same ?stench? as did outgoing President George Bush.
SIXTY years of displacement, 40 years of occupation, and 1.5 years under siege.
CONVERSATIONS about race and racism abound in today?s society, having become especially trendy after President-elect Barack Obama?s historic presidential run and his election in November.
Yesterday?s article ?Overkill in Gaza? was not written by Najwa Doughman, as the article originally stated.
IN 1983, the University athletic department debuted the ?Hoo.
THE ISRAELI Defense Force?s Operation Cast Lead lasted three weeks.
ONE OF the most important questions of modernity is the same one asked for centuries: Where is peace in the Middle East?
THE VIRGINIA General Assembly convened for the first time this year on Jan.
MUCH HAS been made of the excitement surrounding Barack Obama?s presidential inauguration this approaching Tuesday.
