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This week, 45 University of Virginia undergraduates are notably absent from the thousands of college students returning to class after the Thanksgiving holiday. And three recent graduates were less-than-thankful for having to return their diplomas to the university. These academic heartbreaks were due to suspected or verified plagiarism in a physics class...
...combat these increases, colleges across the country have been turning to honor codes, like the one—enforced last week—at the University of Virginia, to help instill a sense of honesty and academic integrity back into the undergraduate communities...
...lounging on that sore tailbone of his, making marvelously irreverent cracks about recalcitrant Senate colleagues and the pretty secretaries who walked by. During the 1960 campaign, I watched him up close: at Wisconsin factory gates at 5 a.m., in the New Hampshire snow, tramping through the hamlets of West Virginia. His days ran 20 hours. I felt more debilitated than he looked. True, J.F.K. didn't indulge in displays of physical prowess (no push-ups or arm wrestling). He just kept going, his mind always in overdrive. That was his true, as he would say it, "vigah...
...steamy day last July, IBM had just announced a deal to buy the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) for $3.5 billion, and Virginia Rometty, known to friends and customers alike as Ginni, had been tapped to head the new division. As Rometty, 45, was shuttled around New York City from one TV studio to another for interviews about the big news, the Chicago native insisted on taking time to call a few of her major customers to assure them that she would stay involved in their accounts during the transition...
...House Armed Services Committee, the chairman of a panel established to study U.S. vulnerabilities to terrorism talked about the SAM threat. "Nobody knows whether or not the enemy has their hands on a Stinger missile and can get it delivered into this country," James Gilmore, a former governor of Virginia, told the committee. "But it's a lot easier to do that, and a lot more available than, for example, a smallpox attack, which would be more difficult to get, and to deliver, into this country...