Word: va
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talk about the lost art of consideration. Just ask newlywed Kaet Ruffner, 26, whose husband Andy borrowed her car twice and reprogrammed her preset radio stations. "I got fired up because I felt like he wasn't respecting my property," says Kaet, who lives with her husband in Fairfax, Va. "Then I knew I had to communicate with him, not react. I told him I didn't mess with his stations, so please don't mess with mine. He said he was sorry and hasn't borrowed my car since then...
DIED. DONALD REGAN, 84, former head of Merrill Lynch who left to become Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary and then chief of staff; of cancer; in Williamsburg, Va. The burly exMarine spent 35 years at Merrill Lynch before joining the Reagan team, where he was a prime mover behind the landmark 1986 tax reforms. When he became chief of staff, he ran into trouble; the Iran-contra scandal blew up on his watch, and he tangled with the First Lady, who helped speed his ouster after a year. He retaliated with a memoir, For the Record, that disclosed Nancy...
When our son Daniel turned 10, he wanted a dog of his own. I was against it, using arguments borrowed from seminars on nuclear nonproliferation. It was hopeless. One giant "Please, Dad," and I caved completely. Robyn went out to Winchester, Va., found a litter of black Labs and brought home Chester...
...says he was central to the execution of the attacks and that, some reports say, Moussaoui was not involved. Federal prosecutors last week--arguing that the threat to national security of allowing Moussaoui to question Binalshibh outweighs Moussaoui's rights as a defendant--asked an appellate court in Richmond, Va., to reverse the judge's ruling in Moussaoui's favor. "Of course it should be permissible" for Moussaoui to question Binalshibh, says former prosecutor E. Lawrence Barcella. "But post-9/11, they're looking at this as war, not justice...
...journalist whose coverage of the Vietnam War for the Washington Post and TIME led to the 1984 best seller Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, which became a 1986 PBS documentary; of Wegener's granulomatosis, an inflammation of the blood vessels; in Falls Church, Va...