LAST YEAR'S holiday season generated a staggering $21 billion in revenues, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
THOSE who follow local politics here in Charlottesville are used to seeing the local congressman, Republican Rep.
TWO WARS and six years later it was clear that something was fundamentally lacking in U.S.counterterrorism strategies in the war on terror.
SORRY, AL Gore: We aren't causing global warming. A change in the earth's temperature does not mean that humans are responsible just like a shrunken, blood covered leather glove doesn't mean that O.J.
AMERICAN efforts against terrorism since 9/11 have witnessed an uncomfortable mix of inadvertent blunders and misguided strategic priorities.
HE WEARS gold Rolexes and diamond-studded rings. He owns mansions, luxurious cars and, according to his daughter/accountant, received a salary (not counting gifts) of $136,000 in 2005.
LISTENING to the radio on my way to Charlottesville Monday, I heard a roundtable panel on C-SPAN discussing the Republican candidates and their prospects for winning the race.
FOLLOWING last week's announcement by President Bush of a temporary troop surge to pacify Baghdad, it seemed like every pundit in America chimed in with a confident pronouncement of the proper course for Iraq.I am not going make another attempt to lay out a detailed, foolproof strategy for winning in Iraq because, frankly, I do not know one.
IT SEEMS this country has yet to have a truly intelligent, high-minded debate on the merits of religious education in public school classrooms. There are two camps.
LISTENING to the radio on my way to Charlottesville Monday, I heard a roundtable panel on C-SPAN discussing the Republican candidates and their prospects for winning the race.
NO, THAT headlinewas not written by a five-year-old. Unfortunately is an exampleof what is now known as text-speak.
The Michael Richards rant a couple of weeks ago shocked the nation and provided one of the most heinous and high-profile displays of racism in the recent history of American culture.
"THAT GIRL over there is hot." "Yeah, but she is totally wasted." "Even better." Sadly, this dialogue is not far from conversations that go on all the time on college campuses, city bars and pretty much everywhere where people gather to drink.
FOR MANY years, the University has offered students the opportunity to apply for the first-year residence hall of their choice.
STEPHEN Parsley, in his Nov. 29 column titled "Shrouding sexism behind multiculturalism," argues that "the battle over the veil is one of the key issues that will determine the future of Islam and the West." He goes on to suggest a ban on the veil in public schools and government places.
"THAT GIRL over there is hot." "Yeah, but she is totally wasted." "Even better." Sadly, this dialogue is not far from conversations that go on all the time on college campuses, city bars and pretty much everywhere where people gather to drink.
NO, THAT headlinewas not written by a five-year-old. Unfortunately is an exampleof what is now known as text-speak.
FOR MANY years, the University has offered students the opportunity to apply for the first-year residence hall of their choice.
The Michael Richards rant a couple of weeks ago shocked the nation and provided one of the most heinous and high-profile displays of racism in the recent history of American culture.
IMAGINE losing your home and possessions, having to flee your home and then, if you were able to return at all, having to live in a trailer in your front yard.
