As Ukraine's battle against separatists along the border with Russia intensifies, the conflict threatens to bleed the government's coffers dry. ... Ashley Deeks, a former State Department lawyer now at the University of Virginia's School of Law, said the Obama administration has yet to articulate the legal basis for bombing in Syria. But she said the self-defense justification is most likely what it will cite, what she called "anticipatory self-defense," that is, countering an imminent threat against American citizens.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the announcement of Cantor’s Wall Street job was “as predictable as the sunrise.”“We just didn’t know the name of the firm Cantor would join,” Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the Perry indictment might even give Abbot "a bit of a boost since Republicans are so angry that it happened." ... "Media hype does not produce votes most of the time," Sabato said. "Wendy Davis received enormous amounts of state and national coverage, but the Democratic base in Texas is nowhere near a majority of the electorate."
Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Dr. Larry Sabato was on with Brian and they discussed the Mid-term elections and what to expect. The Republicans are going to run against the Democrats on their inaction in the Middle East and the stagnant economy. Dr. Sabato explained that the rebounding economy isn’t going to help the Democratic Party.
Battleground-state Democrats continue to make good poll showings, since the Republican brand also is tarnished. "The public is wary of both parties," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, as last fall's partial government shutdown continues to hurt the Republicans' image. Republicans are likely to retain their House majority, but they don't appear to be in a position to make a net gain in governorships.
“It’s seen as very unlikely that [Gillespie] could win the Senate race,” says Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and the state’s leading political guru. “The question is, can he keep Warner below 60%? If so, he has a future, for governor or against [US Sen.] Tim Kaine” in 2018.
Students who did as little as possible during college continued to drift after graduation, according to a new book about postcollegiate outcomes for the ill-fated class of 2009.Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates, by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, is the follow-up to their book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, published in 2010.
“The court is inundated with 11th-hour, untested, advocacy-motivated claims of factual expertise,” Allison Orr Larsen wrote in an article to be published in The Virginia Law Review.
Carroll’s statistics and conclusions are backed up by a recent report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, “Before ‘I Do.’" The study, as reported by the Deseret News National Edition, concludes.
This graphic is a "racial dot map" made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service based at the University of Virginia. They use census information to make a striking visual of the racial makeup of the entire country.
North Carolina dangerously considers a confession to be sufficient evidence to sentence a person to death. The rate of error for confessions is far too high for this to be the case. According to a University of Virginia report released Aug. 21, nearly 20 percent of defendants who have been exonerated by DNA evidence had falsely confessed to the crime.
By Annie Galvin, who has written about music, theater, and books for the Washington City Paper and covered music and festivals for Slant Magazine. She is working on her Ph.D. in English at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville.... As far as lightweight, easy-listening charts pop goes, V doesn’t totally offend the sensibilities, and that’s surely more than can be said about some of Maroon 5’s overly pandering, less exploratory “pop-rock” peers.
The world's smallest breathalyzer, about as big as a chapstick container, DrinkMate plugs into any Android phone and displays your BAC results instantly with no calibration, no mouthpiece and no battery. The idea with DrinkMate is to offer a cheap way to be responsible while still having fun at the bars with your friends. And yes, it sounds too good to be true, too.DrinkMate was created by University of Virginia alum Shaun Masavage, who I think it's safe to say, is a passionate tinkerer. Always intrigued by how products work, Masavage decided to look into the limits of breathalyzers an...
State leaders have hailed online education as the elixir for mushrooming college costs, but online courses have proven to be more expensive for most students than traditional classrooms in Texas, an analysis by The Dallas Morning News shows. Tuition for online classes can be more than 20 percent higher than regular classes at some universities, once extra fees or additional costs per credit hour are included, according to the News analysis.
The University of Virginia is urging its students to help prevent sexual assault.The university is launching a campaign titled “Hoos Got Your Back,” asking students to intervene in situations where they believe someone is at risk of being sexually assaulted.Students spearheading sexual assault awareness campaigns see it as a welcome cultural shift at the university, where the subject was seldom discussed just a few years ago.“The news just skyrocketed this summer about sexual assault,” said Sara Surface, a third-year student and member of the peer education group ...
A new policy from the University of Virginia's president is putting the responsibility on nearly every employee to report suspected sexual misconduct.
Kevin Spacey will be drawing in the usual suspects — an estimated 5,000 of them — for the University of Virginia’s second President’s Speaker Series for the Arts. Tickets will be available starting Wednesday.The Academy Award-winning actor will speak at 6 p.m. Oct. 18 at John Paul Jones Arena, where doors will open at 5 p.m. More than 5,000 people are expected to turn out to hear Spacey, a film and stage actor who also is a director, screenwriter and producer. UVa students, staff and faculty members and local community members all are welcome.
While not everyone loves Russian literature, an innovative program at the University of Virginia is taking these works to places they rarely see. "Books Behind Bars" is introducing young men behind bars to the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, led by U.Va. lecturer Andrew Kaufman. Featuring U.Va. students Kamala Ganesh and Jackie Cipolla. In a second segment, Doug Avila, a former juvenile behind bars, opens up about how the program changed his life.