Ken Hughes has been working on the Nixon tapes for 14 years in the University of Virginia's Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program.
The Bensenville teachers who led several of the workshops, aside from morning keynotes featuring University of Virginia education professor Carol Ann Tomlinson, were enthusiastic, if a bit nervous at welcoming groups of fifteen to twenty outside teachers to observe their summer-school lessons. ... At any rate, close reading is now all the rage not just in Bensenville and school districts it influences, but across the nation, thanks to Common Core. But Pondiscio, a Common Core supporter and former employee of E.D. Hirsch’s foundation, nevertheless was aghast to see a model Common Core les...
“So far, incumbent senators of both parties who have run for renomination are a perfect 18 for 18 in primaries,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Roberts and Alexander appear to be favorites, even though tea party groups in both states back the challengers. Of the two, Mr. Roberts is probably more vulnerable to an upset: He’s run a subpar campaign and has really suffered from questions about his residency in Kansas.”
Thomas L. Hafemeister, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, calls this generation of retirees “the richest elderly population the world has ever seen.” That makes the elderly a perfect target for corrupt financial advisors.
And some legal analysts say the Hobby Lobby ruling, which made headlines as the first ever to grant religious rights to a corporation, signaled a less-visible but equally important shift in the law toward claims of religious freedom. “There is no concern for women’s interests … no suggestion that women who were harmed would have any recourse,” said Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor. He contrasted the court’s concern for the Amish farmer’s workers in 1982 with its brush-off of Hobby Lobby’s employees. In an article on Slate...
Roughly $30,000 in state-levied fines and a pair of matching cease-and-desist letters haven't stopped ridesharing app developers Uber and Lyft, but a permanent injunction could. … "I'd expect the court to grant the requested preliminary injunction in light of the fact that the DMV has previously ordered the defendants to cease and desist, an order it appears that the defendants have thus far ignored," said Ben Spencer, professor of law at the University of Virginia.
For Cantor, of course, it is a big win. Since his unexpected and earth-shaking defeat, the 51-year-old has been seen at posh places schmoozing with Big Money. Cantor has a master’s degree from Columbia in real estate finance, and his wife was a New York securities trader. Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political expert, thought Cantor’s idea “generous.” But, Sabato was quoted as saying, “it’s highly probable that he has a deal in the works for his post-Congress life, and he’s eager to get it started.”
The general election contest, considered even a year ago, is projected as swinging toward Murphy, according to the Rothenberg Political Report and prominent analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
By Edward D. Hess, a professor at the Darden School of BusinessCreating a “big new” or a “big different” for your business requires innovative thinking, and innovative thinking requires the right kind of organizational environment. That is why innovation is so hard.
A new survey shows that students and teachers feel safe in high schools around Virginia. A team at the University of Virginia surveyed more than 48,000 students and found the overall picture was a positive one. More than 13,000 teachers in more than 300 schools in Virginia were also surveyed.
TUSD also will be participating in a leadership program out of the University of Virginia. Sanchez says it will be implemented at six schools. "Imagine a menu of best practices. And University of Virginia works with us to identify on a campus---out of that menu--which items would best serve the needs of that campus. And so it's years of best practice compiled. I think they're in version 11. So they've done this 11 different cohorts across the United States. So we're getting the benefit of other successes," Sanchez says.
Researchers from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville were interested in identifying independent risk factors associated with inappropriate, empiric antimicrobial therapy for the treatment of severe sepsis. Their retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of all surgical/trauma patients admitted to a tertiary care center appears in the July 2014 issue of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The investigators analyzed data from 1996 to 2007, looking patients who developed postsurgical sepsis and they identified 2,855 patients who experienced 7,158 infections...
This week, the University of Virginia’s nursing school will begin an ambitious educational effort -- training more than four dozen nurses in how to talk about death with patients and their families and how to provide comfortable care to people who are dying. You might expect nurses to be experts on the end of life, but UVA’s Associate Dean of Nursing Ken White, says that’s not always the case. He’s been studying what nurses know for more than a decade.
Call it career creep: The M.B.A. job hunt now begins in earnest well before students even arrive on campus for orientation. Heck, it starts before they even make it to pre-orientation hiking trips and math camps. ...This year University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business plans to conduct “career kickoff” meetings—45-60 minute advising sessions covering the job-search process and available resources—with two-thirds of its incoming first-year class by the end of the week. That school’s new-student orientation begins Aug. 18.
James S. Brady, the often-irreverent press secretary to President Ronald Reagan who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt on his boss in 1981 and who became an enduring symbol of the fight against unfettered access to guns in American society, died Monday at a retirement community in Alexandria, Va. He was 73. ... “Criminals who use guns typically do not buy them from a gun store or a gun dealer. They get them on the black market,” Cook, one of the foremost authorities on gun control, said in a speech at the University of Virginia law school at the time the study was...
Reprinted from “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate” by Ken Hughes by permission of the University of Virginia Press.... Since 2000 I have studied the White House tapes as part of the Presidential Recordings Program founded by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. These years of research have convinced me that the origins of Watergate extend deeper than we previous knew to encompass a crime committed to elect Nixon president in the first place. Chasing Shadows tells the story of that crime and its role in the unmaking of ...
“I think the Affordable Care Act to a large degree is already kind of baked into the cake politically,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political tipsheet published by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Most voters who are going to be moved by the Affordable Care Act have probably already been moved.”
"The most recent research suggests that serial cohabitators, couples with differing levels of commitment and those who use cohabitation as a test are most at risk for poor relationship quality and eventual relationship dissolution," Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, said in a New York Times op-ed.
When I watched Eric Holder, Mr. Obama's Attorney General, glibly skim over the issue of the steep increase in mass incarceration of black and brown Americans over the last three decades, as he was being interviewed by Douglas A. Blackmon on a PBS rebroadcast from the University of Virginia's Miller Center, it got me to thinking about the problem Mr. Blackmon (a white Mississippi Wall Street Journal Reporter, who authored the incredibly well-researched Pulitzer Prize winning book "Slavery by Another Name"), had spend most of his adult life trying to get his hands around. ... W...
... Pure and simple, Collier "was a bum," said Michael F. Holt, professor emeritus of American history at the University of Virginia and author of "The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party," a definitive history of that party that was prominent in mid-19th century politics before breaking apart over the issue of slavery.