“Remember, this is a midterm with low turnout,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Candidates on both sides are playing to their base and hoping for a large boost from them in fundraising and votes. You don't accomplish that by watering down the message.”
In the field of GOP presidential hopefuls that has yet to carve out a clear frontrunner, an indictment of one could make room for the others. As Christie begins to rise in the GOP presidential polling field, knocking out one hopeful could give him a boost. "The word ‘indictment’ is never good," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“I just don’t think people can, unless they’re extremely well-positioned, just decide to jump in and run,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics
"We all know what the audiences are for those shows — they're tiny in number but massive in influence," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Beard observes that there is no word in Latin for “smile,” and makes the striking suggestion that the Romans simply did not smile in the sense that we understand the social gesture today. (Writing in The New York Review of Books, Gregory Hays, a classicist at the University of Virginia, has challenged the claim: “It may well be that the Romans did not smile, as we do, to indicate greeting or willingness to serve. But the smile of amusement, pleasure, or approval is probably as Roman as gladiators and stuffed dormice.”)
... Results of a study done by Habitat through the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia were also unveiled at the picnic. The study gauged how new homeownership affected the families over time.
University of Virginia researchers last month published in the journal Science results of a study in which they got a bunch of people in a variety of situations and told them to sit still for 15 minutes with nothing but their thoughts for entertainment.
... What I found absolutely shocked me: the researchers from the University of Virginia couldn’t tell if pretend play is a means to an end or if it’s merely a sign that things are going well. More specifically, the article weighs three possibilities: Is pretend play necessary for positive development? Is it one of many routes to development? Or is pretend play a symptom of other factors that lead to positive development? Here’s what they found:
... SpermCheck FertilitySpermCheck Fertility, an over-the-counter male fertility test developed locally, is now available in Rite Aid stores nationwide, the company recently announced. Dr. John Herr, director of the Center for Research in Contraceptive and Reproductive Health at the University of Virginia, developed the test.
Women who have several sexual partners before getting married have less happy marriages - but men do no harm by playing the field,a study has found.According to new research by the National Marriage Project, more than half of married women who had only ever slept with their future husband felt highly satisfied in their marriage. But that percentage dropped to 42 per cent once the woman had had pre-marital sex with at least two partners. It dropped to 22 per cent for those with ten or more partners. But, for men, the number of partners a man had appeared to have no bearing on how satisfie...
Officials from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia recently briefed Wythe County supervisors on a study they conducted to determine how an agricultural exposition center will impact the county.
By Mark Edmundson, a U.Va. English professor and author of the just published book "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game."... Through football, my father explained the world to me. Through football, my father began to teach me what he thought I ought to value and why.
By Mark Edmundson, a U.Va. English professor and author of the just published book "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game."... What exactly have we become that makes football the American game?The best answers are sometimes the simplest. Football is a warlike game and we are now a warlike nation. Our love for football is a love, however self-aware, of ourselves as a fighting and (we hope) victorious people. ... The rise of football over baseball is about a change in America's self-image. We've been ready to fight always (ask the Indian tribes or the Spanish who contr...
By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of BusinessWe’re about to enroll the Darden School of Business’s Class of 2016, among whom many students are looking to end one career path and embark on another. Alumni I’ve been speaking with recently, took vacations, found the time to stop and reflect, and confronted the itch to change employers. And for the Darden Class of 2015, who have had summer internships, this week is probably the closing act: Companies will start to make full-time offers.Common to all of these groups is a fundamental question: Should I work for this co...
By Ed Hess, a Darden Professor... Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford predict that 66 percent of the current U.S. job force has a medium to high likelihood of being replaced by technology over the next decade or two. Good jobs could well be in short supply.
By Ashley Deeks, a professor of lawIn the wake of Thursday’s statements by Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey and Friday’s comments by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, it sounds like the U.S. Government is at least considering whether to conduct air strikes against ISIS in Syria. A decision to do so clearly is not a done deal.