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...Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime aviator Emily Stilson in the Broadway drama Wings, for which she won a Tony...
...insurgency Darwinism. All the stupid ones are dead." The surviving terrorists in Fallujah may be the smart ones in the short term, but their willingness to destroy their innocent countrymen will ensure their ultimate extinction. And that will be the fate of fanatical terrorists everywhere. Ray Gregory Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. I am impressed by Time's reporting on the war in Iraq. But I am disturbed by the Bush Administration's claim that the fighting there is part of the "war on terror." This isn't a war on terror. It may be a campaign, a struggle or even...
...party that explicitly and implicitly condemns their sexual orientation. Opposition to gay marriage is written into the Republican party’s official platform and the supposed tension is only perpetuated through high-profile “outing” incidents involving conservative public figures like former Virginia congressman Ed Schrock and Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz...
...appalling as the notion may be, on a practical level, Benator may be one of the best hopes Virginia Democrats have in the next election cycle. If Affleck is able to mount a relatively successful campaign, he will not only keep George Allen from receiving the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, but he will also allow Mark Warner – certainly Virginia’s and one of the nation’s strongest Democrats – to save his money and energy for 2008. And that’s all assuming that Affleck loses. Though Benator will...
...University of Virginia (UVA) student compiled a 600-signature petition to persuade her college to change its mind about sending students back to New Orleans, and a similar petition process is expected to occur at Harvard next week. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, colleges across the country opened their doors temporarily to New Orleans students whose schools were unable to open this fall. At Harvard, the original agreement between the administration and Tulane students stated that the students would return to Tulane for the spring 2006 term. Stephanie M. Swisher, a Tulane University freshman currently at UVA, organized...