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Lives over politics

AS AMERICA laid Ronald Reagan to rest, President George W.Bush spoke a eulogy on behalf of the former president, an actor whose final role was his most painful, one of 4.5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's.


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Rising above the quagmire of wartime politics

IN THE turbulent wake of the Iraq invasion, America's left-leaning squawk boxes have been hemming and hawing exuberantly over the failures -- real and imagined -- of the Bush administration's flashy foreign policy adventures in the Middle East.


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Creating a culture of tolerance

LOST IN the shuffle of move-out was another unfortunate racial incident. On the evening of May 3, a Hereford resident called the police to report a suspicious-looking black man outside.


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A truce between life and choice

WHILE exorbitant amounts of money are funneled into a political battle over abortion, society suffers by having to pay the opportunity cost of this ongoing dispute.


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Overdone glorification of immaturity

CHARLOTTESVILLE was recently ranked number one among places to live in the United States by "Cities Ranked & Rated." While University students are fond of our college town, most would be hard-pressed to say that Charlottesville is the most exciting place to live.


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Finding courage

I WAS sitting in my office in the Women's Center this past Friday, a glorious Charlottesville day outside my window, drifting on white lace of dogwoods, blue sky of spring.


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Charting the University's course

WITHIN the context of its relationship with the Commonwealth, Thomas Jefferson's University is defining a new concept of "public education." A changing political landscape over the past two decades, manifested most dramatically in the ongoing budget skirmish in the General Assembly, has yielded a society in which individual interests and fiscal minimalism trump long-term community-building and public investment.


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One-sided classrooms?

IN THIS heightened world of political correctness, where it is considered an abomination to speak negatively about almost every religious, political and social group, especially in academia, one bloc that is exempt from an overt extension of tolerance is conservatives.


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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.