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...known as a courtly Virginia gentleman, but Sen. John Warner, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is playing hardball. The 79-year-old Republican Senator has just ratcheted up the pressure on the Defense Department to come clean on what happened at Haditha. On Tuesday Warner fired off a stern letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before...
...drink machines, but since when did revenue rate higher than the health of our kids? We as a nation must accept that until we change our eating habits and teach our children how to make better eating choices, we will not resolve our health problems. Julie Whitlock Richmond, Virginia...
...used to it, but it’s not good.”The season opener provided an augur for a trend that would mark the whole season: against then-No. 18 DePaul on Nov. 18, Harvard found itself in an insurmountable 47-18 deficit at the half. At Virginia a few weeks later, the Crimson faced a 31-22 halftime hole in Charlottesville, and not even the momentum of a sustained second half run could bring Harvard back after a stagnant first half.“We’ve tried to iron [the slow starts...
...Harvard has also provided $20 million in grants and low-interest loans for development and purchase of affordable housing.“The University has really worked closely with Cambridge in the past few years to increase affordable housing,” Power says.—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...more than 500,000 unique visitors daily, and more than 10,000 members maintain their own sub-blogs (called "diaries") within its reaches. On Thursday, almost a thousand of these loyal readers and contributors - along with Wesley Clark, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and former Virginia governor and potential '08 contender Mark Warner - will gather in Las Vegas for a pep rally-cum-political conference, "Yearly...