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...University of Virginia (UVa) is dipping into its events budget of approximately $250,000 to bring singer-songwriter Jason Mraz to Charlottesville next Friday...
...undergrads at the University of Virginia (UVa), the first week of school was supposed to be defined by the hassles of moving in, the joy of seeing friends again, and the fun of parties without having to worry about schoolwork. Instead, for students returning to Virginia’s flagship campus in Charlottesville, Va., that week—and several weeks afterward—will be remembered for the string of ugly incidents of racial harassment and intimidation that jolted the school and prompted a public response from the university president...
...older Evangelicals for long denouncing gays without offering them what Davis calls "healing." Davis looks nothing like a stereotypical Fundamentalist; he wears spiky hair, Fauvist T shirts, an easy smile. He first noticed the wave of young people coming out when he was pastor of a student church at Virginia Tech. I asked how his group could succeed when homosexuality has been so depathologized among kids. "GLSEN has 3,000 GSAs, but who knows how many student ministries there are, how many Bible clubs in schools?" he answered. "And my hope is they will be the ones who care...
...most striking performance I saw this summer was “Junebug”’s Amy Adams, an actress who, like Virginia Madsen before her, dragged herself up out of slasher movie purgatory into a film in which she so fully embodies her character that the two may forever be inextricably linked. Adams is Ashley, the pregnant North Carolina native and self-appointed welcoming committee for her new, blue-state sister-in-law into their small town. With those impossibly doe-like eyes and confident drawl, Ashley is a woman satisfied because she fully understands everything...
...proxy proposal system wasn’t really created for shareholders to run companies,” says Virginia Rosenbaum, a senior research analyst at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), another proxy analysis firm. “It was created so shareholders could talk to management and bring its points...