Word: virginia
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...Chilled after a 17-day layoff between its last regular-season game and the start of regional play, Harvard made an inconspicuous exit from the tournament, mustering just two runs on nine hits as No. 12 Pepperdine and Virginia Commonwealth delivered a one-two knockout combination. The Crimson batted just .141 in regional play...
...Black-and-White's 6:48.6 was not enough to challenge first-place Princeton's 6:32.3. The Tigers' closest competitors were Villanova and Virginia, who were sandwiched in between Radcliffe and Princeton...
Attacking this problem all at once is impossible. It would take billions of dollars. The state of Virginia alone would have to spend $500 million to begin providing adequate community treatment, according to a 1998 report prepared for it by consultants. Virginia's Governor, Jim Gilmore, has proposed spending $41 million instead. The Clinton plan would increase the mental-health grants that go to all states by just $70 million next year, to $358 million...
John Sayles is a filmmaker at home everywhere in the world--mythical South American countries (Men with Guns), Texas border towns (Lone Star), West Virginia a long time ago (Matewan). But wherever he goes, he finds ordinary people who turn out to have extraordinarily complicated back stories--stories that often have kinks in them that even they are unaware...
...LOST CAUSE G. Gordon Liddy (6), at the Virginia Military Institute, to its first graduating class to include women: "[Women] were trained separately, and they did noncombat work. That was vital, and they did it splendidly... When you are rising to higher ranks...put it back right...