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The failure of war John Payne’s recent letter asked those who opposed the war how we now felt about the liberation of the Iraqi people, and to acknowledge that Bush had been right all along [Mailbag, April 29]. Nobody with a heart can deny feeling joy and relief for the end (if there is an […]

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Poly want a lover? Thank you for putting out the recent survey on sexual relationships. I took the survey and was amused, mildly surprised and disappointed by the strictly monogamous angle at which it was written. There are many people in the world (and certainly lots in Central Virginia) who practice polyamory as an alternative […]

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The business of teaching The title of Sheila Pell’s article “UVA Inc.” [March 18] was not only apt, but I believe sadly so. It is true that UVA, like other large state universities, have become “incubators” where ideas are initially forged into commercially viable technologies. It is also true that an enormous fraction of the […]