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Maggie Bowden


A conservative nation

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- HOPE: That's what Republicans across Washington, D.C., were feeling as they sweated in the hot sun, passing out pamphlets until the very last hour at the polling sites.

A GOP on the rise

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Washington, D.C. should be home turf for the GOP. From our view of the Washington Monument, we control both the House and Senate as well as the most powerful position, arguably, in the world -- the presidency of the United States.

First-year growing pains

BRACE yourself, I am about to say something unheard of in the Thomas Jefferson-devoted, orange and blue bleeding, Good Ol' Song singing world of Charlottesville: I never wanted to go to the University of Virginia.

Rushing into Greek life?

ON MONDAY, hundreds of second and first-year women around Grounds received bids from one of the 16 Greek houses of the Inter-Sorority Council.

A fair and balanced look at Al Franken

Almost a year ago Michael Moore and Al Franken meant two completely opposite things to me. Moore was a self-righteous, pompous fire-breathing liberal who could make any self-respecting conservative's blood crawl at the mention of his name.

Berating Boston's busing

ALMOST 30 years ago, school children across Boston began boarding buses to travel to schools outside their neighborhoods following U.S.

Perpetuating Southern sterotypes

MY PARENTS, my siblings and I were all born and raised below the Mason-Dixie. We have a tendency to say "y'all," never celebrate a holiday without fried chicken and according to my California roommate, cannot pronounce "nuclear." Obviously, we are a southern family.

In Iraq for the long haul

SIXTEEN American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday when the Chinook helicopter they were traveling in was downed just outside of Baghdad.

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