Spending the summer guarding one of the NBA's best players has the Melbourne Tigers expecting big things from new import Mustapha Farrakhan.
If the folkloric character of Robin Hood actually existed, he’d be hard-pressed to find any place better to ply his trade than Greenwich, Conn., perhaps the wealthiest town in the world. It happens to be the home of the Tudor Investment Corp., a $13 billion hedge fund run by the energetic 59-year-old Paul Tudor Jones II.
Since the tragic day of November 22, 1963, two US presidents have been highly effective in using the memory of JFK to their own ends, according to University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy.”
Jacqueline Kennedy was, says University of Virginia historian and Kennedy biographer Barbara Perry, as stark a contrast to Mamie Eisenhower as one could imagine: "She was only 31 when she and President Kennedy came into office. She had these two beguiling children; Caroline was only three when they came into the White House. John Jr. had just been born. She was the third youngest first lady ever to appear at the White House. She was so stunningly beautiful and had such amazing clothing. The way she spoke was different, in her breathy voice. Everything about her seemed different."
The young woman's voice was so quiet that Stephanie Nakasian had trouble hearing it. "I really want to sing," the woman told Nakasian in a whispery voice. "I love music. My mother is a piano teacher, and she has the most beautiful voice. She is a singer, but I'm not." Nakasian, an accomplished jazz singer and voice teacher at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary, has heard countless people say they weren't singers. More than 30 years of experience have convinced her that, in almost every case, that's just not true.
"There's certainly room for adjustment, but not anything sweeping," says David A. Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia and the principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security in 2009 and 2010. "The justifications for DACA made clear that this is not a situation where the president can reduce overall enforcement of immigration laws. He can just redirect it in certain ways."
Investigative documents from Smith's case, reviewed by The Baltimore Sun, show how a few missteps and wrong turns can lead to an unjust outcome: Detectives following one lead fail to account for another. Witnesses lie in court. Prosecutors sell jurors on a bad case. "When you study these exonerations, it's really humbling to see how many ways people err," said Brandon L. Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who studies wrongful convictions.
You will be hearing a lot about the assassination of President Kennedy as we approach the 50th anniversary next week. But CBS News has something you haven't heard before: the University of Virginia has given CBS access to newly enhanced Dallas police recordings that tell the story of that day, from beginning to end.
East meets west in Charlottesville this week. A group of Tibetan doctors is working with the University of Virginia and other groups to integrate their special type of medicine into classes here and create a center for Tibetan medicine.
Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said Rubio was appealing to the Republican base. “The Republican electorate hasn’t changed one iota. They are just as conservative as ever. Rubio has been seen as moderate on immigration so he has to be seen as conservative in other areas,” he said.
In early 2012, electronic-pop duo Gems (singer Lindsay Pitts and guitarist Clifford Usher, both U.Va. grads) took a handful of home-recorded songs and posted them to the online music repository Soundcloud. Months passed. Over time, Gems periodically posted a new single here, another there, accompanied by a new promo photo—often a shadowy image of Pitts, pouting in black and white. Last week, Gems' total Soundcloud listens broke 400,000.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, cites several factors that might weigh in Cuccinelli’s favor were he to decide to make a run at Warner: President Obama’s declining poll numbers, how Obamacare ultimately plays out and the fact that there are not yet any candidates “who could even vaguely” make a competitive run. Even so, Sabato shares Rozell’s skepticism. “Nobody's unbeatable, but Mark Warner would be a very tough target, especially for Ken Cuccinelli, (and) I don't know where Cuccinelli would get the c...
Washington University in St. Louis came out on top of Lumosity’s annual ranking of the “smartest colleges in America.” U.Va. ranked 15th, and was the No. 1 public university.
A secret society at the University of Virginia is back to spread wisdom about the written word. “They realize there's a crisis in publications, so they really want to begin looking at what's possible for the future,” said Wayne Cozart, the vice president of development for the UVa. Alumni Association who has studied secret societies over the years. Through an open letter to the university, the O.W.L. Society announced it’s back to support a literary culture on grounds. The OWLs date back to 1887.
Americans for Prosperity “saw some opportunities” and “decided to push it" during 2012, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “As long as the money is there, I imagine they will be spending pretty heavily in 2016.”
As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, and an authority on JFK, will discuss his new findings about Kennedy’s shooting, the impact of his presidency and the echoes from the awful day in Dallas that ended it.
(Transcript) Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato was a guest, discussing his research on the life and legacy of John F. Kennedy.
“I would say that money played an important role in allowing Terry McAuliffe to more easily define Ken Cuccinelli in ways that reduced Cuccinelli’s appeal,” said Geoff Skelley, political analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
The relationship between faculty and the Board of Visitors at UVA is in the spotlight again. The UVA chapter of the American Association of University Professors is questioning the state of shared governance at the university.
"Not every family has three senators, one president, two candidates" for president, adds Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, also to AFP. "The reason people still believe in a curse is because we have focused so heavily on this family. We know each single member of the Kennedy family and we have connected the dots for them," he added.