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The University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, it is a public university with strong alumni support. U.Va. is top-ranked among public universities and all national universities, public and private. The University of Virginia Health System is a nationally renowned academic medical center.
The University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, it is a public university with strong alumni support. U.Va. is top-ranked among public universities and all national universities, public and private. The University of Virginia Health System is a nationally renowned academic medical center.
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Hate in action
Acts inspired by hate can infect a community, even if they don't reflect it. By targeting an entire group or class of citizens, they have a ripple effect beyond a single event. The law in Virginia recognizes this and assigns extra penalties for illegal...Tags: Halloween, Judaism, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Assault, Laws
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Getting concrete results
Richmond Times-DispatchThe economy may have slowed, but a plant in Dinwiddie County that turns out at least 40 pieces of 45,000-pound precast concrete a day, mostly for parking decks, is expanding. Tindall Corp. is investing $12 million in an expansion that is expected to add...Tags: Prisons, Metal and Mineral, Marketing, Building Material, Employees
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McCain rejoins fight in battleground Virginia
AP Political WriterJohn McCain heads to Virginia with his most potent weapon--running mate Sarah Palin--to rejoin the electoral battle for a state Republicans have owned for the past 10 presidential elections. And it's none too soon, say Republicans in a swing city in the...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Same-Sex Marriage, S Chris Jones, Lyndon B. Johnson, Government
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McCain, Obama on low campaign road to nowhere?
The tenor of the presidential campaign turned sharply negative this week, but the mud-slinging will likely have little effect on next month's election as long as the U.S. economy remains in turmoil, political observers said. "They can attack each other,...Tags: New York Times, Polls, Government, Florida International University, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Harold M. Burdette, Harford County educator
Harold Merritt Burdette, a retired Harford County educator and volunteer, died Oct. 1 at Sinai Hospital of complications from bypass surgery. The longtime Bel Air resident was 89. Born and raised in Renick, W.Va., Mr. Burdette was a 1937 graduate of...Tags: Christianity, Floods, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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Canada gives U.Va. big hope
What would have amounted to a couple thousand dollars worth of custom ice hockey equipment landed the University of Virginia an offensive lineman. That's sort of the A and the Z of Austin Pasztor's unusual journey from the college football hotbed of...Tags: Al Groh, Injuries, Field Hockey, National Football League, Colleges and Universities
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Charlotte Kohler, longtime Virginia Quarterly Review editor, dies at 99
WASHINGTON - Charlotte Kohler, who helped shape the path of literature as the longtime editor of the small but influential Virginia Quarterly Review, died Sept. 15 of congestive heart failure at her home in Charlottesville, Va. She died one day before her...Tags: Albert Camus, David Lee, Jean-Paul Sartre, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Diego Rivera
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Pine Knot's preserver
The Daily ProgressSometimes the first act of preservation is realizing, and then convincing others, that something is worth saving. When Roger F.H. Leclere and his wife, Martha, initially laid eyes on Pine Knot in the mid-1990s it was in rough shape. Theodore Roosevelt's...Tags: Oyster Bay, Government, The White House, Theodore Roosevelt, National Government
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Poll finds it's still a tight race in Florida for John McCain, Barack Obama
Sentinel Staff WritersJoe Biden comes to Florida today with the Democratic presidential ticket riding a modest, but perceptible, wave of momentum. National polls have Biden and Barack Obama leading John McCain and Sarah Palin by several points, and a new statewide poll...Tags: Joe Biden, University of South Florida, Polls, Government, The White House
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More than 40 years of marching bands behaving badly
Chicago Tribune reporterAllegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct got the University of Wisconsin marching band suspended last weekend, making the Badgers the latest in a long line of college bands that have had to face the music for their missteps. 1967: The...Tags: Columbia University, Sexual Assault, Colleges and Universities, O.J. Simpson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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U.Va. ends ban on signs at football games
The Associated PressThe University of Virginia has rescinded a ban on signs at its football games, calling the policy a distraction. Athletic director Craig Littlepage says in a statement released Thursday that the struggling football team needs support and encouraged all... -
Study links fan's use to lower risk of SIDS
Using a fan to circulate air seemed to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in a study of nearly 500 babies, researchers reported Monday. Placing babies on their backs to sleep is the best advice for preventing SIDS, a still mysterious cause of...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Health Organizations, People, Infants, Oakland (Alameda, California)
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