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...McDonnell, who last week won the GOP primary in Virginia, in 2005 for attorney general; after being outspent 2 to 1, he lost by only 323 votes. "Virginia is still more purple than blue, and Mr. Deeds' moderate platform [Deeds is pro-gun and pro-business in the mold of Kaine and former Governor Mark Warner] would have the broadest appeal," the Post said in its endorsement, reminding voters that Deeds' is the only sure-to-win formula Virginia Democrats have in their playbooks...
...given her work on curricular reform, Minow would bring a clear vision to the position of Dean, again casting her in the mold of Elena Kagan, who aimed to build the faculty and end its polarization as well as to reform student life, says another faculty member...
...Cheese and Wine Room: At this vaulted sandstone cellar within Sydney's heritage GPO building, www.gposydney.com, diners are encouraged to create their own cheese board from fromager Sonia Cousins' extensive menu, which changes seasonally and is divided into fresh, white-mold, washed-rind, semi-hard, hard and blue cheeses from Australia and Europe. Accompaniments include truffled honey, muscatel raisins and novelties like hibiscus chutney. There's an excellent choice of paired cheese-and-wine menus with tasting notes - even a single-malt-whiskey-and-cheese menu - as well as monthly master classes...
With his bushy salt-and-pepper hair, scraggly goatee and bohemian airs, Ai Weiwei doesn't fit the mold of earnest human-rights campaigner. But the 52-year-old Chinese artist has made the cause of documenting every child killed in last May's massive earthquake in Sichuan his own. Leveraging his position as one of the country's best-known artists - he had a hand in designing the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium and is the son of China's most prominent modern poet - Ai has managed to help keep the issue of why so many schools collapsed, killing...
...yesterday, Cabot residents got a departure announcement from Resident Dean Mya Mangawang that rather broke the mold. And evidently the odd-sounding missive may have had a back story, with one student saying Mangawang exhibited “a mild unspoken distaste” for Cabot students. We're not sure we can do it justice with a summary, so check out the full text, after the jump...