Word: virginia
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...lives in Cranford, N.J. She is 13 years old, and she plays soccer. Boy, does she play soccer! Her sister Katie is 15. She plays soccer too. And their dad Pat--well, Pat drives. He drives one girl or the other to soccer practice most every day, and to Virginia for the occasional soccer tournament, and even to Canada once in a while, for more soccer. Last week he drove the girls home from soccer camp in Pennsylvania. Not long ago, Pat logged 300 miles in his green 1994 Dodge Caravan so that Kelly could play in three games...
...already written Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, but in 1948, when WILLIAM FAULKNER submitted a short story to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, steely editors at both publications rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards, will finally unveil "Lucas Beauchamp." The Review, published by the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was a writer-in-residence, inherited the story from the Rev. Patrick Samway, a former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year...
RANDY OWENS Independent, Virginia Resume: Cook, plumber, retail sales, community-center recreational aide Relevant experience: Admits he's "not exactly overloaded"; elected president of second-grade class; lifetime of trying to beat the system Platform: "It is time for the common people to take back control of the country...
...state of indigent defense, not just in Texas but in the rest of the U.S. as well. For one thing, the Supreme Court will consider later this year whether to tighten the standard for legal competency, after hearing a case involving bungled defense work on behalf of a convicted Virginia murderer with an appointed lawyer...
Prosecutors say, however, that state law allows them to destroy the sperm, which currently sits in an evidence locker in the Virginia Beach circuit-court clerk's office. Otherwise, relatives of "every executed inmate in Virginia would want to have his DNA evidence tested after the fact," says David Botkins, spokesman for the state's attorney general. A trial-court judge last month ruled that the evidence can be destroyed without testing, but an appeal is headed for the Virginia Supreme Court...