LAST WEEK high school senior Candace Parker won the Slam Dunk Championship at the McDonald's High School All-American game, a contest replete with young, talented male athletes.
IN THE summer of 2001, the Bush administration received dozens of warnings that terrorists were planning a major strike against the United States.
LAST WEEK, two reports regarding the state of affairs in Africa graced the front page of The Washington Post.
THE BI-WEEKLY adventure to the outskirts of Charlottesville in search of cheap gasoline this past week was a sobering wake-up call.
IT'S FAIR to say that the average media consumer's attention span is inversely proportional to the number of informational choices he or she has.
TIME IS running out for Sen. John F. Kerry. At the moment, the all-but-confirmed Democratic nominee is enjoying a fair amount of success in the media and in the court of public opinion.
WE ARE rapidly approaching the 50th anniversary of the landmark Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregation by race in public schools was unconstitutional.
TWO WEEKS ago, a University parent launched a new Web site calling for the University to toughen up the way it deals with students accused of sexual assault.
PUTTING out a paper on a daily basis can be a very stressful task. Besides the basic reporting and photography, staffers also sell and design ads, write headlines and captions, draw graphics and comics and design and lay out all of these pieces on the page.
HOORAY for Research Week! Banners across Grounds proudly proclaim the celebration of a newly valued tradition at this institution.
JUST RECENTLY, the U.S. Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus while committing a federal crime of violence.
LAST TUESDAY, former President George H. W. Bush broadsided his son's critics. Speaking at an oil industry group's annual meeting, Bush called denial of progress in Iraq "deeply offensive and contemptible." "There is something ignorant," he said, "in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world." Bush called the past year of Iraqi history a "miracle." Several hours later, Iraqi militants killed four American civilians.
ON MARCH 30, The Cavalier Daily ran an opinion column, "A College Upon a Hill," claiming that Brown College at Monroe Hill is a wasted resource due to its insularity and eccentricity.
AFTER the first few days of public testimony in the ongoing 9/11 Commission, the verdict is in: President Bush did not have prior knowledge of the Sept.
LAST WEEK, Michael Newdow, an amateur lawyer arguing to banish the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools, brought the audience to applause in his first case before the Supreme Court.
LIFE SUCKS as a terrorist. Terrorists somehow get pleasure from killing hundreds of innocent people and then once you die, people around the world mourn your death.
THE FIRST line in the Bill of Rights states that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, yet in 1954, Congress inserted the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, in order to distinguish the United States from the atheist nations of the communist bloc. It's difficult to see how the addition of a deity to America's traditional oath of loyalty is anything other than an establishment of religion, but such was the matter before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as Dr. Michael Newdow argued that the recitation of the pledge in public schools is unconstitutional so long as it contains the reference to God.
THIS PAST Wednesday, hundreds of concerned Virginians piled into the Albemarle County Office Building expecting to find a panel of state legislators waiting to tell them why no budget had been passed yet.
At a university struggling to maintain its status as a top academic establishment while simultaneously coping with the demands that besiege a public institution, there is no issue more pressing than the organization of housing and student support structures.
OVER THIS last week, former White House counter-terrorism aide Richard Clarke has led a sort of all-out media blitz, going on "60 Minutes" to promote his new book, "Against All Enemies" (which, coincidentally, was published by a subsidiary of Viacom, which owns CBS), testifying before the 9-11 Commission and talking tough on Sunday morning political talk shows. This is a great strategy to sell lots of books and reward one's self for years of public service, but very poor for prompting an honest, impartial look into how the Clinton and Bush administrations have dealt with terrorism.
