“Any entity with a buffer zone law is probably looking at it and thinking about whether they need to tweak it — whether that means showing it’s necessary or modifying the law,” said Leslie Kendrick, a University of Virginia law professor and First Amendment expert.
Watergate remains the gold standard for political scandals, said Ken Hughes, a historian with the Miller Center’s Presidential Recording Program at the University of Virginia and author of “Chasing Shadows.” Those who knew the president well agreed in recent interviews that Watergate changed the way Americans looked at politics and the presidency.... “Nixon was crying, not just because he appreciated Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s loyalty,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He was crying because h...
It’s possible, of course, that President Obama may end up missing Republican lawmakers during the five-week congressional recess that’s just begun – he won’t have them around as a useful foil on the immigration crisis and the economic plight of the middle class.“The president will be singing ‘Bring in the Clowns’ before too long,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato quipped Friday.
Larry Sabato, director for the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia, said he sees Cantor’s premature exit from public office as a sign that he wants to “pursue the big money prize awaiting him in the private sector.”
Republicans in the House may gain between five and eight seats in the midterm elections, according to Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Alexander's issues "with his right flank speak to the strong feeling among many conservatives and conservative groups that ideological purity is the most important trait a Republican politician can possess," said Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. ... It's all reflective, Skelley said, of Alexander still embracing "a relatively pragmatic conservatism."
According to Daniel T. Willingham, Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia, thanks to the nature of the human memory children will not require two months to relearn the skills. Professor Willingham makes another hopeful point about summer learning, suggesting that new life experiences can also lead to advantages in reading comprehension, since it provides relevant background knowledge.
Foodio was born three years ago, when University of Virginia undergraduate Rory Stolzenberg got tired of ordering pizza with a group of friends and getting stuck with the bill. Stolzenberg created a mobile phone application that allowed him and his friends to easily split the bill when ordering food online. In the process, he figured out that restaurants also could use some help keeping money in their pockets. ... When Stolzenberg graduated from UVa, the Foodio team joined the i.Lab Incubator at UVa’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. ... Launched in 2013, the i.Lab Incu...
Since its inception, in 1998, LendingTree has played matchmaker on more than 30 million loan requests and facilitated some $214 billion in closed loan transactions.... By the fall of 1996, though, LendingTree.com founder and CEO Doug Lebda was in the MBA program at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, coincidentally something he wouldn't complete until this May. While there, everything he learned was seen through the prism of his mortgage marketplace idea. It consumed him. In a leap of faith, he put business school on hold.
HIGHTOWN — Former Richmonder Trevor Piersol grew up in The Fan, majored in history at the University of Virginia, taught English for a year in China and now works, teaches and lives on a farm in the lush mountains of Highland County where the harvest is something more profound than mere vegetables.
Cheryl Hines and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were married Saturday at the home of the groom’s mother, Ethel Kennedy, in Hyannis Port, Mass. The bride, 48, is an actress, director and producer who played the wife of Larry David in the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which ran from 2000 to 2011. Mr. Kennedy, 60, is the president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, an international water protection organization, and a senior lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, both in New York. He is also the chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper, another environmental organization, and...
At many workplaces, employees meet once a year with the company's designated financial planner. During the meeting, you review the performance of your 401(k), make decisions about allocation, and exit feeling relieved that you won't have to go back for another year. But a recent study (link opens PDF) by Quinn Curtis of the University of Virginia and Ian Ayres of Yale University shows how two simple mistakes we make during these meetings can sabotage the entire retirement planning process.
Thomas Talhelm, of the University of Virginia, and an international team of collaborators looked at these two types of farmers in rural China, carefully controlling for such things as income, ethnicity, climate and patterns of disease. And it turned out that people in wheat-farming districts look like folks from individualistic cultures.
THE DOCUMENTARY "Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words"; Monday night at 9 on HBO.WHAT IT'S ABOUT Peter Kunhardt's ("JFK: In His Own Words") documentary is based on 3,700 hours of secret recordings made by President Richard Nixon of phone conversations as well as those in the Oval Office, and other White House locations from 1971 to 1973. These recordings, known to only a few when they were made, have been studied by historians at the University of Virginia since 2000. Portions have been interwoven with archival footage and some of Nixon's post-White House inte...
President Johnson speaks about his administration’s goals in Southeast Asia during a visit to Syracuse University Aug. 5, 1964. Video courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and The Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia.
Several state lawmakers are urging the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors to abandon a proposal that would block board members from publicly disagreeing with a board decision.
With criticism mounting, University of Virginia officials now say they will change a proposal to stifle dissent among the Board of Visitors. University Rector George Martin said through a university spokesman that the current version will not last.
That’s because muzzling internal dissent, while often convenient in the short term, tends over the long term to weaken the very institutions that practice it. And that’s some food for thought regarding UVa.
But the policy goes too far. Disagreement can be healthy. And, yes, sometimes minority views are so morally compelling that they should be aired outside the controlling environment of official policy. The manner in which President Sullivan’s ouster was engineered failed to meet that moral standard, but the proposal threatens to muzzle any disagreement, no matter how valid. Thomas Jefferson would be aghast at such machinations at his beloved university.