(Commentary by Ashon Crawley, an assistant professor of religious studies and African-American and African studies) Aretha Franklin's contributions to American music are well documented. I want to talk a bit about how, listening to her gospel albums one learns about black life as a sacred practice, and the anticipatory drive of Spirit.
Several Mitchell scholars also fretted that they’d lost out on some of what college had to offer by sticking to predetermined scripts, sweating perfection and avoiding risks. One of those scholars, Aaron Kurman, who graduated from UVA in 2005 and now works as a human rights lawyer in Israel, copped to all of that and more.
So, when should you buy generic and when should you splurge on a name brand? Berryville native Marjorie “Meg” Pryde want to help shoppers answer that question with a new app she has created. When she was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, Pryde, 28, said she would try to save money by purchasing generic brand items that were often “the same product with a different label” as more expensive name brands. She would read and compare ingredient labels and read product reviews on her smartphone, but sometimes the product she bought was a disappointment.
Airbus has appointed Anand E. Stanley, a veteran leader in the global aerospace and defense industry, to succeed Pierre de Bausset as President and Managing Director of Airbus India. Anand holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, an MBA from the University of Virginia-Darden.
Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall hopes this is the season the Cavaliers turn the corner.
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said that March budget vote was "exactly what AFP has stood against for many, many years." So the group took action, he said. "They've decided to move away from too close an association with the Republican Party," Sabato said. "When the AFP takes a stand, I've learned, they stick with it. Come what may. They face the consequences. They're tough."
Larry Sabato, of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said heavy Republican registration in Kansas was an advantage for Kobach, especially outside a two-party race. He said it was difficult to imagine Kobach losing, “as far right as he is,” unless Kelly and Orman hatched a political alliance.
Georgia’s race for governor has gotten more competitive in the eyes of University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. His Crystal Ball analysis shifted the race from “likely Republican” to “leans Republican.” He writes that he’s still skeptical that Democrat Stacey Abrams can defeat Republican Brian Kemp, but: “Georgia is a racially-polarized and right-leaning state, which to us probably gives an edge to Kemp, who is white and conservative, over Abrams, who is black and liberal. But the potential for strong black turnout and a poor environment for Republicans hurting Kemp suggests th...
(Audio) Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, author of Sabato's Crystal Ball and several best sellers including "The Kennedy Half Century" Dr. Larry Sabato joins the show to give insight into the midterm elections.
TPG remains a holdout among peers, such as Apollo Global Management LLC, Blackstone Group LP, Carlyle Group LP and KKR & Co., all of which went public over the last decade or so. Inside and outside the firm, some consider TPG’s approach to be a competitive advantage because it can focus on a long-term strategy that has tended to yield uneven returns. “Their successes come in terms of taking the path that others haven’t taken,” said Susan Chaplinsky, a University of Virginia business school professor.
Nixon and the GOP, meanwhile, told conservative voters that voting for Wallace would mean a Humphrey victory. “Nixon’s message was ‘Don’t send Washington a message, send them a president,’” said Ken Hughes, a historian at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia who has studied Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. Nixon also began to appropriate some of Wallace’s language, attacking busing to achieve integration and calling for “freedom of choice” plans that would leave schools segregated.
Tribune Media Co.’s claims that “willful” breaches of its written merger agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. caused the $3.9 billion deal to collapse are virtually untested in court. The alleged breaches happened because Sinclair didn’t exert “reasonable best efforts” to “avoid or eliminate” government roadblocks to completing the merger, Tribune claimed. “As far as the case law is concerned, there’s very little precedent, and this is a very murky area,” Albert Choi, a University of Virginia Law School professor who specializes in contracts and mergers, told Bloomberg Law in an email....
“(S)o if the lawyer knew the plaintiff (his client) had died at the time the lawyer filed the complaint, stating in the complaint that the plaintiff is a resident of Virginia and living in the district would be an ethics violation,” George Cohen, the Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, told Legal Newsline.
Aretha Franklin changed popular music forever. There is American music “before Aretha Franklin and after,” said Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine’s pop critic and a University of Virginia assistant professor.
What would prompt Mueller to issue a subpoena to the President? Saikrishna Prakash, professor of Law, University of Virginia: “Giuliani has been all over the press about how the president wants to testify but not with respect to all of these questions [about obstruction of justice]. This has been going on for months. Perhaps Mueller believes that he just has to ask these questions and play this out to see what the president’s response is.”
Market competition is much more likely to provide relief to consumers than a lawsuit, said Carolyn Engelhard, an associate professor of health policy at the University of Virginia. Still, she said, if the suit does by chance make it to higher courts, changes on the U.S. Supreme Court — conservative U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to fill former Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat — could help. “If Kavanaugh got appointed, some of these lawsuits could get through and help the consumer, because he’s likely to rule that agencies are over-reaching,” Engelhard said.
Several notable Charlottesville-area residents are heading a project to help communities combat the rise in extremism and intolerance observed since last year’s white supremacist Unite the Right rally. The project, called “Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project,” has been organized by the Anti-Defamation League, a group committed to fighting anti-Semitism. Members of the project’s advisory board include A.E. Dick Howard, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Former White House aide Marc Short on Sunday acknowledged the White House handled its response to last year's violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, poorly. "The White House didn’t handle it as well as it could have from a [public relations] perspective," Short said on ABC's "This Week." Short, who left his post as White House legislative affairs director last month and was recently named a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, said that President Trump mixed up his messaging, but refuted assertions that the president has never called out white supremacists by name.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political Analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Democrats remain poised to net several governorships, but the size of their gains remain unclear, and there seems to be plenty of competition all across the map.
Another significant new autism study released just a few weeks ago concluded that developing autism is indeed determined by the expectant mother’s microbiome during pregnancy. The findings of scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine raise the possibility that some forms of autism could be prevented.