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...billion-plus supplemental war bill. "The bottom line is this: Congress's failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines," Bush told an American Legion audience in suburban Virginia. The next day, his Pentagon did it all by itself, without any help from anyone of either party on Capitol Hill...
...stay for hours, and by the middle of the show, you are truly convinced that you are not standing in a museum, but looking at Norton’s private collection in the study of his Cambridge home.Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art, and Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American art, “The Last Ruskinians” will be on view at the Fogg Art Museum until July 8. John Ruskin was a 19th-century British watercolorist who took what he called a “truth to nature” approach, producing realistic...
...heart of anti-Blairism is a convergence between antiwar doves and realists like Virginia Senator James Webb, a former Reagan Administration official who believes the U.S. should "send American forces into harm's way only if the nation is directly threatened." Webb and his allies don't oppose all military action, but they vehemently oppose efforts to forcibly remake the world. In Iraq's wake, one of the core anti-Blairite arguments is that real internationalism means understanding what other societies want for themselves, rather than seeing them as clay waiting to be molded in the U.S.'s image...
...student here, I’ve never had a regret about a single weekend spent in New York, in Montreal, or even in Charlottesville, Va.—the perfect locale for showing off my seersucker.Last year, I visited a close friend from high school at the University of Virginia for the annual Foxfield’s horse race. Shortly after arriving in Charlottesville, I was concerned that my seersucker blazer might not be enough to brave this event, heralded by my friend as the “preppiest event you will ever experience...
...brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she’s pretty much smitten. Darling...