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Southern hospitality is the well-known idea that people in the South should be warm and welcoming to their visitors. No. 1 Virginia and No. 47 Kentucky ignored that notion, however, as the squads handed the No. 51 Harvard men’s tennis team its first losses of the dual-match season over the weekend.The Wildcats (5-3) squeaked out a 4-3 victory over the Crimson (2-2) on Saturday and the Cavaliers (7-0) overpowered Harvard, 6-1, on Sunday.Although Virginia’s win was convincing, Kentucky just slipped by the Crimson. The outcome...
Pundits may well marvel that, for once, participants in Tuesday's D.C., Maryland and Virginia Democratic Potomac Primaries will be casting votes that "actually matter," but yesterday's results among Republicans show that even if a party's nomination is all sewn up, votes can still matter quite a lot. John McCain's losses in Kansas and Louisiana - and his narrow win in Washington State - suggest that, at the very least, the Republican Party will not be able to begin preparing for the general election as soon as leaders would like. At worst, Mike Huckabee's insistence on staying...
...cause you to lose more than just the game. Your private information is also at stake. Facebook application developers—who can be anybody—are unnecessarily given full access to both users’ and their friends’ private information, according to a University of Virginia study. Adrienne Felt, a senior at the University of Virginia who conducted the study, looked at the top 150 Facebook applications and what information they require in order to run. She concluded that only 9.3 percent of these applications required private information—yet Facebook currently gives all applications...
...Democrats in four more states are scheduled to cast their ballots, and while they will not be the deciding factors in what remains a virtual dead heat between him and Hillary Clinton, the contests could give Obama an extra boost heading into next week's important Potomac primaries of Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. On a conference call with key Clinton donors on Thursday, the campaign's senior strategist Mark Penn admitted as much; "I think we'll have some bumps in the road, some difficult states in the next week...
...part of this courtship, McCain has been surrounding himself with loyal members of the movement. Before addressing CPAC, he was introduced first by former Virginia Sen. George Allen, a darling of many conservatives, and Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, who is known as an ideological purist on Capitol Hill. "He doesn't have a secret plan to enact blanket amnesty as President," Coburn told the crowd, about McCain's plans on immigration. "And if he did he knows I'd kill...