(Commentary) During a conversation with Larry Sabato, a prominent political commentator from the University of Virginia, he said "as yet no one has shown me (Schieffer) evidence to convince me that he--that there was anybody else connected." And he asks Sabato why that is, and Sabato dutifully replies that it is difficult to accept the minor cause of the major effect.
People who make a living following politics in the Commonwealth, such as George Mason University’s Mark Rozell and the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, see such a scenario as unlikely but nonetheless don’t outright dismiss a potential candidacy by the state’s controversial sitting attorney general.
The U.S. Department of Justice is being sued over its refusal to publicly disclose a $2 million non-prosecution agreement prosecutors reached with a Houston-based tree services company that employed undocumented workers. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression represents the challenger, Jonathan Ashley, a business reference librarian at the University of Virginia School of Law. Ashley and Brandon Garrett, a criminal justice professor at the law school, run a web site that features hundreds of deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Richmond has received a $280,600 award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to help fund the planning of an Advanced Manufacturing Apprentice Academy Center. The regional training center will provide hands-on training to prepare area workers for careers in advanced manufacturing. "With this new training facility, we'll able to create a pipeline of advanced manufacturing workers that will not only meet the needs of the region's current companies, but also position us to attract other companies to build and expand wi...
The University of Virginia's annual Legislative Forum is set to begin at noon Dec. 18 in the Rotunda Dome Room. Members of the General Assembly representing Central Virginia will be on hand to talk about issues affecting the university and the UVa Medical Center.
In “The End of the Church,” Ephraim Radner deployed figural exegesis to show that the divided Church is a dead Church, deprived of the Holy Spirit, corresponding to Jesus’ own dead, deprived, and broken body on the cross. In his latest book, “A Brutal Unity,” Radner contends that the divided Church is murderous, complicit in all sorts of violence, such as the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust. To curb these violent tendencies, God has raised up the liberal state, which at once judges the Church’s failures and shows something of what she has failed to be: a ...
(Commentary) Over the years I have collected quotations, pithy sayings, and clever comments, all of which I keep in the top right-hand drawer of my desk. As it turns out, I’m not the only person who collects the same sort of comments. Dr. Gabriel Robins, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, also collects them. Part of the reason for collecting clever sayings, I think, is that most of them make a salient point about life in very few, but carefully chosen, words. This week I’m going to share some the best quotations from Dr. Gabriel’s collection.
(Commentary) (Referring to Woodrow Wilson) “No man in supreme power in any nation’s life,” wrote the University of Virginia’s president Edwin A. Alderman, “was so profoundly penetrated by the Christian faith. He was sturdily and mystically Christian.”
This year's Poets&Quants' ranking of the best full-time MBA programs in the U.S. proves that the best business schools tend to stay put: There isn't a single difference between the top eight MBA programs in our new 2013 composite ranking and the top eight in 2012. … The University of Michigan's Ross School and the University of Virginia's Darden School also pulled a switch. The Midwestern titan rose to No. 12, while Darden slipped to No. 13.
A group of experts on gun law released a series of recommendations to help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous and unstable citizens. Among the recommendations from the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy are state laws that would temporarily revoke gun possession privileges for people who have been involuntarily committed for treatment of mental illness. Those rights could be restored, suggested the consortium, after a reevaluation shows they are unlikely to relapse and pose a threat to themselves or others. The group – which includes UVa School of Law professor Richard Bonnie ...
(Editorial) Every year, parents whose sons and daughters are passed over for admission to one of Virginia’s top universities take their complaints to state lawmakers. And every year, the issue quickly devolves into a debate over how big of a slice of the admissions pie should be reserved for in-state students. Some legislators, attempting to duck a pie in the face, are all too happy to distract from the real problem: reductions in state support for higher education over the past decade.
As noted in a January 1994 review by David Aubrey of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Robert Dolan of the University of Virginia: “Siesta Key's stability and low erosion rates are linked both directly and indirectly to the Big Sarasota Pass ebb shoal's capacity to shelter the key from high energy waves and storm forces, as well as the sand transport that occurs in conjunction with the shoal, the pass and the key. If the dredging planned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is carried out, this will modify the wave and storm protection, and alter the sediment supply to the ...
Gardner R. Hathaway, a former CIA chief of counterintelligence whose nearly four-decade career with the agency took him to Cold War focal points ranging from Berlin to Moscow and placed him at the center of many espionage episodes, died Nov. 20 at the Vitas hospice in Vienna. He was 88.
Just 57 seconds into Sunday's NCAA Round-of-16 game against Marquette, Virginia defender Matt Brown was hit with a red card, leaving UVa to play a man down for the rest of the game. Virginia didn't let it affect them. Thanks to goals by Scott Thomsen, Darius Madison and Todd Wharton, the Cavalier men’s soccer team defeated Marquette, 3-1, in front of a crowd of 1,126 at Klockner Stadium.
The greatest challenges of portables may be transition periods and logistics, said Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. “Facilities matter,” he said, “but they don’t trump a solid program and solid people delivering that program.”
Malcolm Bell III, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia who is co-director of excavations at Morgantina, a site near Aidone, Sicily, from which the silver is believed to have been looted, said: “The flaw in the agreement, from the Sicilian point of view, is that during the period when the silver goes back to New York, there is nothing in its place at the little Aidone museum. But when the silver is in Sicily, Italy must lend the Met works of equal beauty and value.”
UVa is somewhat at the mercy of forces beyond its control. The escalating costs of its generous aid program cannot be sustained. It must slow those increases down — so that the program can continue to help students, if not quite as generously, for many years to come.
"Remember, four months ago, Syria was going to be the key issue in 2014, then it was the shutdown, now it's Obamacare," said Larry Sabato, a political-science professor at the University of Virginia. "I have no idea what will dominate the fall, and neither does anybody else."