Word: virginia
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...season. The Crimson, driven by solid play across the board, brought home the Ivy League Championship with a perfect 7-0 record and notched a 15-7 record overall. Even in its losses, No. 51 Harvard put up impressive fights against top-flight teams such as then-No. 1 Virginia, then-No. 13 Pepperdine, then-No. 8 Michigan, and especially against then-No. 17 Texas Tech in the Crimson’s first NCAA tournament in four years. The squad’s grueling slate before Ivy League play began certainly left Harvard prepared to face its less challenging conference...
...content for Palestinians to establish a peaceful state in the West Bank and Gaza and, in return, let Israelis live in peace in Israel. Regrettably for both, as long as several major Arab factions are sworn to the destruction of Israel, this will not happen. Arye Ephrath, Fairfax, Virginia...
...every new car, suit, pair of shoes, radio or home. In return, individuals and companies would pay no income tax. With no disincentives to earning more, investment would boom. The stronger dollar would also deflate the price of oil, killing two birds with one stone. John P. Kuchta Jr., VIRGINIA BEACH...
...broad appetit food festival in downtown Richmond, Va., visitors can stuff themselves with pizza, Thai noodles, fried chicken and--this being Virginia--smoky barbecue. But some of the biggest crowds are gathered around David George Gordon, a cheerful 58-year-old writer from Seattle. Gordon isn't cooking anything that complex--just some pasta, prepared on a hot plate--but scattered among his orzo like tiny six-legged meatballs is a show-stopping ingredient: crickets. The author of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Gordon considers Orthopteran Orzo his signature dish. He scoops the pasta into paper cups and begins handing...
...will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much of the campaign in their parts of the country. The goal is to save money, but no one knows if it will work. Veterans of Bush's 2004 incumbent juggernaut...