IN THE last few weeks, President-elect Barack Obama has begun to select those officials who will make up his cabinet and serve as his chief advisors.
ON NOV. 4, California saw the passage of Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, by a narrow margin.
A NEW ADMINISTRATION in Washington always brings with it speculation about what policy changes will come to our society, and near the top of everyone?s list of priorities lies health care reform.
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SOMEONE once told me that the purpose of the corrections newspapers print isn?t so much to fix what was wrong in yesterday?s edition, but to point out that everything else in there was right.
ON THANKSGIVING Day, I was relaxing on the couch channel surfing when I happened upon a Christmas classic, ?Miracle on 34th Street,? on the Turner Classic Movie channel.
THANKSGIVING: the all-American holiday where we gorge ourselves to the point of near-stomach-rupture and Mom and Dad have always let you try just a little bit of the champagne.
AS AN involved college undergraduate, I know that being a student does not just require going to class and studying as an attempt to keep good grades, but also being involved in the community.
ON SEPT. 23, 2008, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood before the UN General
MANY STUDENTS joke about the Fourth Year 5K. After all, what college student would rather run three miles than drink some liquor?
PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama?s Cabinet appointments have been overwhelmingly Clintonian, a move that has made many Republicans very nervous in Washington and has them saying ?I told you so? when asked about the apparent lack of bipartisanship that he has exhibited in the appointment process so far.
IF OLE Captain Jack Sparrow has taught us anything, it?s that everybody loves a good pirate story.Unfortunately, the recent events off the coast of Somalia don?t constitute a major blockbuster hit, but rather a serious breakdown in international maritime stability.
THIS WEEK, Congress debated whether or not to bail out the American auto industry, specifically the Big Three companies of General Motors, Ford Motors and Chrysler.
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.
I HAVE participated in and written on international student advocacy for the last four years.
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.
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.
IT ISN?T often on Grounds that you see University students and Charlottesville residents collaborating together.
SOMETIMES, the difference between a good newspaper article and a great newspaper article is very small.
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.
