A study showed teenagers whose parents kept tight control over them struggled to form relationships without losing independence and were more likely to bow to peer pressure.The University of Virginia study, in journal Child Development, followed nearly 200 youngsters aged 13 to 21. It found 13-year-olds whose parents used emotional tactics such as guilt to control them were less able to keep balanced relationships at 18 and 21.Researcher Barbara Oudekerk said: “Without opportunities to practise self-directed, independent decision-making, teens might give in to their friends’ and pa...
Would strengthening marriage and family help to restore the American dream? The American Enterprise Institute is out with a new report that attempts to answer that question. It's titled "For richer, for poorer: How family structures economic success in America." The report co-author W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia explains his findings and a then a diverse panel responds to his ideas: Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post, Ross Douthat of the New York Times and Jordan Weissmann of Slate.
The Virginia Film Festival is set to bring in more than 200 filmmakers, directors and actors from all over the country, but its premiere Thursday will feature a Virginia native. “It’s great having a film that’s by a Virginian, about Virginia and shot all in Virginia,” festival Director Jody Kielbasa said.
The son of a former Soviet premier stopped in Charlottesville to talk about the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.The University of Virginia hosted a panel to commemorate the historic moment that took place on November 9, 1989. Wednesday night, historians and professors came together in Charlottesville to stress the importance of remembering that day.
As the world marks 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a man who spent years patrolling the border between East and West Germany visited the exhibit at the University of Virginia Wednesday. Isaac Strother says seeing portions of the wall at UVA brought back memories. But his section of the country looked different. "What I saw was mostly either barbed-wire fence, and maybe little concrete barriers,” he said. UVA professor Karen van Lengen worked on projects in the country after the wall fell in 1989. She says the difference between both sides was shocking. "In the east...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – When reigning national champions Florida State University take on the University of Virginia, Nov. 8, the college head football coaches will be fighting for the same outcome – a cure. FSU’s Jimbo Fisher and UVA’s Mike London both have children battling Fanconi anemia (FA), a rare genetic blood disease leading to birth defects, bone marrow failure and cancer diagnoses. The odds of two head coaches having children with this disease are one in 990 billion.
Jill Tietsort Rinehart definitely came from the Greatest Generation. From gardens to City Hall, she at one point had a hand in almost everything that went on in Charlottesville. ... She hit her stride in the 1970s, helping to found the Charlottesville-Albemarle Democratic Women’s Club and serving as its president from 1970 to 1972. From there she sprang into leadership, becoming the first woman elected to the Charlottesville City Council in 1972 and serving until 1976. Her efforts as a councilor helped lead to the construction of the Downtown Mall. ... She also attended college, graduati...
While he was good enough to start at wide receiver and defensive back for Austin High, McKenzie knew his 5’8” frame wasn’t big enough for the pros. After graduating high school, he attending the University of Virginia, double-majoring in economics and foreign relations. During his sophomore year in college, he began to explore acting “out of boredom, curiosity, and a sense of feeling challenged,” he says.His first theater role was as Friar Laurence in a UVA production of Romeo and Juliet. The play was controversial on the conservative-leaning campus since it was a...
In the summer when the sky was falling on the NFL and fans were buying pitchforks in bulk, Cynthia Hogan was in New York, interviewing with league officials for a job. They feared the headlines about domestic violence and the NFL’s bungling of the Ray Rice case might scare away their prized candidate, a veteran Washington attorney with experience in the White House and on Capitol Hill. ... Russell’s husband, Tom Donilon, first met Hogan in the registration line at the University of Virginia School of Law. “Even then she was cooler and more with it than the rest of us,” ...
District residents voted for the D.C. attorney general for the first time Tuesday, electing a longtime Washingtonian who served in the past as a public defender, White House lawyer and managing partner of one of the city’s largest corporate firms.Karl Racine, a 51-year-old Democrat, bested his four competitors with a commanding 37 percent of more than 145,000 votes cast.... The son of Haitian immigrants, Racine grew up in the District and attended D.C. public schools before graduating from St. John’s College High School. A star athlete, he was an All-Met basketball player who ...
... To say that Bernard Mayes had an eventful life is a huge understatement. Born in South London he worked as a classics teacher before becoming an Anglican priest. He emigrated to the US in 1958 where he oversaw a parish and freelanced as a correspondent for the BBC. At the time San Francisco had one of the highest suicide rates in America and Mayes founded the country's first ever suicide hotline. His radio experience saw him become the first chairman of National Public Radio and he acted as a consultant to similar services in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In 1977 he was the voice ...
Brandon Garrett, University of Virginia Law School professor and author of “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations” (Belknap Press, 2014), tracked the numbers showing prosecutors' willingness to compromise with big corporations who break the law, especially since Arthur Andersen's bankruptcy after its 2002 conviction.
Supporters lauded Attorney General Eric Holder’s legacy on civil rights when he announced his resignation at the end of September. … Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, details the rise of such agreements over the past decade in his new book, Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.
Earlier in the day, the prosecution's final witness, Christopher Holstege, a toxicologist at the University of Virginia, said that all of the symptoms exhibited by Klein in the emergency room were consistent with cyanide poisoning.
The fact that one test revealed lethal levels in Klein's blood only reinforced his opinion that she died from the poison, said Holstege, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia and director of the Blue Ridge Poison Cente in Charlottesville, Va.“I am left with a case that fits the pattern of cyanide poisoning,” Holstege said. “I have at this point in time no other diagnosis for this patient.”
Pellegrini rested her case after testimony by Dr. Christopher Holstege of the University of Virginia, author of the book, "Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives."Holstege testified that Klein's symptoms ruled out anything but cyanide poisoning. He based his opinion on documents ranging from police reports, records of medical treatments that Klein received after the 911 call until she died three days later, and, finally, on a lab test that found lethal levels of cyanide in blood drawn from her by physicians trying to save her life. Those results weren't until ...
"Consumer"..."That's when you started hearing terms like 'skin in the game,'" said Carolyn Engelhard, MPA, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine.So is "consumer" an appropriate word for a person who is receiving care from a trained healthcare professional? Jury's out. Says Engelhard, it may be appropriate in some cases—like the purchasing of coverage—but in others, people will always remain patients. "I still think when your mother, father, child gets that incurable cancer and there's only a 1% chance of the...
The latest polls and forecasts from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics indicate that the states where Christie spent the most time and poured in the most RGA money were all leaning toward Democratic candidates coming into today’s elections: ...
Graphic caption: A map of the landscape of the U.S. Senate races heading into election day that was produced by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"They have tapped into public disgust with the two major parties," said political analyst Larry Sabato, who heads the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. A real Independent wave, Sabato added, "will take one winning, maybe two, although you can make an argument that if an Independent can hold a longtime incumbent like Roberts to the low 50s in a two-way race, then it's possible that we could see more of this in 2016."