Long an All-American [December 12]
The awards just keep rolling in for UVA defensive end Chris Long. After garnering enough votes to finished 10th in the Heisman race…
Jefferson's descendants killed, wounded in Colorado shootings [December 12]
David Works, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson who has tried to reconcile racial divisions, was wounded in the Colorado shootings over the weekend…
Love in the time of Sheffield [December 12]
"The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem," says Rob Gordon…
Pot ploy
When the 1972 The National Commission On Marihuana And Drug Abuse titled its study: Marihuana: A Signal Of Misunderstanding (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm) and recommended legalizing adult use of cannabis, people were surprised ["Prof almost got pot past Nixon," UVA News, November 20, 2007]. Instead of the fictions made up by the drug warriors for over 30 years, […]
Correction from December 4 issue
Due to a reporting error, in last week’s Feedback ["Playing nice"] as well as the September 18, 2007 edition of the column, Roderick Coles’ name was misidentified as Rod Cole.
We Ate Here
"Fried tofu with salt & pepper" might sound like the kind of dish you scrape together at home at the end of the shopping week. Trust us, Café 88’s Crispy Tofu bento box is not available in your larder. Served with two vegetable side dishes (we had delicate broccoli and potatoes that had been scrumptiously […]
Winning and losing [December 8]
The sports programs at Albemarle County Schools are vacillating between triumph and grief as they come to terms with a big win and a major loss.
Council, don't preach [December 9]
Anyone reading The Washington Post Magazine got a detailed history of Rutherford Institute…
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, December 4Yankees play Hokies The New York Yankees will play an exhibition game at Virginia Tech on March 18, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. As part of their spring training, they will take on the Hokies at 3pm in English Field. "Since the tragedy of last April 16, the Virginia Tech family has shown great […]