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Upon entering UVA, each student pledges to act honorably and to hold fellow students to the same standard. According to the official website of the Honor Committee, an honor offense is defined as an intentional act of lying, cheating or stealing which warrants permanent dismissal from the university. To determine if an alleged offense meets the standard of an honor offense, a series of questions are asked: Was the act of lying, cheating or stealing committed? Was the act committed willfully or intentionally? Would open toleration of such an act impair the community of trust sufficiently enough to warrant permanent...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: An Honorable Proposition | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...home to Thanksgiving this year to find a new dog. While the outward appearance of Sadie was the same as it had always been (with maybe a few more grey hairs), her outward behavior was markedly different. This year, instead of continually and incessantly begging for and attempting to steal food, Sadie walked around in a fog, her tail lazily wagging, with what I would swear was a stupid grin on her face. When I asked my parents about this strange, albeit more manageable behavior, they confided that they had placed our family dog on anti-anxiety medication, the equivalent...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Canine Normalcy in 2000 | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...give it to Sadie. Not only because I feel a deep need to get rid of all the turkey in this house before it is served as leftovers for the fourth time, but also because I feel sorry that this year she did not have the chance to steal it from the table herself...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Canine Normalcy in 2000 | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...Cigarette smokers--so they can slap them and steal their smokes b) The terrible bandit Veerappan c) Fulfillment d) The best monkey strip clubs from Bali to Bhopal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Nov. 27, 2000 | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...shouldn't be an impossible sell. Few of this pageant's judges - the wide and semi-passionate center of the electorate - believe that either Gore or Bush is trying to "steal" the election. Most are sympathetic to the idea of manual recounts, and those who followed the story over Thanksgiving weekend probably have some sense that the manual recount in Palm Beach, at least, did not get a fair shake. (Certainly a smirking Katherine Harris did Bush no p.r. favors by getting needlessly stingy with a legally flexible 5 p.m. deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primping for the Presidency | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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