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Luttig is an unusual White House opponent. As recently as September, he affirmed the President's power to hold Padilla without charges for more than three years as an enemy combatant. And his court--the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, Va.--has been the White House venue of choice for bringing cases because it considers that bench ideologically sympathetic. Undeterred, the Bush Administration last week asked the Supreme Court to overturn Luttig's ruling...
Perusing Yahoo Sports and asking my friends and fellow sports writers led to a bounty of bizarre collegiate nomenclature, from the College of Notre Dame (Calif.) Argonauts to the Sweet Briar College (Va.) Vixens-and everything in between...
...Harvard, MIT, and Tufts cadets. “I now have six stripes on my arm instead of two,” Brooks says, perhaps more modestly than he should. Last summer, forsaking the beach, the Massachusetts native also persevered through six grueling weeks of boot camp in Quantico, Va. “It’s hell,” he says. “It’s five in the morning, you’re up, you have the lights turned on, you’re standing in line, you’re yelling...
...eight years since CarolMoore's daughter Michelle was brutally raped and murdered in Norfolk, Va., the holidays have always seemed to shine a spotlight on that empty chair at the table. This Thanksgiving was one of the worst. Just two weeks before the feast, three Navy sailors who had confessed to killing her daughter and are serving life sentences filed a petition maintaining their innocence and requesting a full pardon. Wounds Moore had hoped were slowly closing were ripped open again. She went through the motions of the holiday like a zombie, forgetting things, unable to focus, crying...
Benator was born in a Washington Post article claiming that leaders within the Virginia Democratic Party have been tossing around Affleck’s name as a contender in the 2006 Senate race against George Allen (R-VA). Though Affleck’s spokesman denies that Affleck has any intention of running, the prospect is certainly tempting. Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Garner, have been spotted recently looking at real estate near Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition, University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, a well respected political pundit, hinted that Democrats’ whispers have been of a serious nature...