WOMEN HAVE been a part of military history since antiquity, but the debate on whether to systematically include them in full combat roles is a modern one.
How little we know what we most need to know. This is an exceptionally striking fact about the most promising new field to arise in our time, evolutionary psychology, led by Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker and our own Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Happiness Hypothesis." Its emphasis on natural selection serves as a valuable sanity check on the otherwise crushing power of political prejudice in the social sciences (I use the term loosely), especially through its politically incorrect discovery of the evolutionary basis of many sexual inequalities.
THE AQUATIC and Fitness Center is great. It's big, spacious, and it has a wide range of exercise options throughout the complex that appeal to the gym's equally wide range of patrons.
TUCKED away behind the mountains, cut off from the outside world save for a narrow pass and gravel-strewn road, a dictator rules his people with a steely resolve and terrifying power.
ACCORDING to The Daily Progress, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is considering coming to Charlottesville Oct.
ABOUT a month ago, a flood of first-year students arrived on grounds to move into dorms. Many of them headed to McCormick.
THIS IS the story of Shin Dong Hyok. I heard his story over the summer, when I was living in London.
LAST YEAR was my first year back in academia after a two-year hiatus and I had quite forgotten the importance of rankings to the collective institutional ego.
RAMBLING over our beloved Grounds this fall, one thing, besides blistering heat, is inescapable: construction.
IN 1796, George Washington announced that he would retire upon completion of his second term as president, declining to seek a third term that he likely would have won.
LAST WEEK, I had one of those awkward encounters that instantly make you feel discouraged or misunderstood.
FORTY-SEVEN million people in the United States do not have health insurance. That number has only risen (by 2.2 million in the last year, to be exact). The Democratic candidates, Barack Obama, John Edwards and, most recently, Hillary Clinton, have carefully outlined their plans for health care, all promising significant changes.
WHISPERS that Iran's Holocaust-denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University prompted calls from some elected U.S.
Two weeks ago Governor Kaine announced that the drought in Virginia has caused eight Virginia counties to be recognized as federal disaster areas.
IT IS hard to maintain a successful honor system at a large, public university. The success of a system which seeks to uphold values of academic integrity depends upon its ability to continually encourage student commitment to those values.
IT IS no secret that frivolous law suits permeate the American legal system. Bordering on the tedious and inane, many cases are not worth a second glance.
CONSTRUCTION is up and running on the much-touted South Lawn Project, which is supposed to be completed by 2010.
I HAVE followed with interest discussion of the proposed $21 million building to house the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
NOW I KNOW how Larry Summers feels. Two years ago the former president of Harvard University made a speech saying that it's possible that there are fewer top women scientists because there was a greater variance in scientific ability among men than women.
THIS MONDAY, Senator Hillary Clinton decided to share her new plan to provide each and every American with health insurance.
