In the mid-winter night in coastal South Carolina, on an island just north of Hilton Head’s luxury and just south of Beaufort’s history, a bus pulls up under a floodlight that is casting a ghostly pallor in front of the steel doors of a homely and institutional brick building.
Even as President Bush is ordering an increase in the U.S. military presence in Iraq, two Virginia senators—both former Marines—are calling for a different policy. Newly elected Democrat Jim Webb took Bush to task in his rebuttal to the State of the Union address: “The president took us into this war recklessly. …We are now, […]
Marines account for 28 percent of U.S. military casualtiesThe Iraq War and the Marines by the numbers Total active duty U.S. troops: 1.3 millionPercentage that are Marines: 13 Total U.S. troops in Iraq: 138,000Percentage that are Marines: 18 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, as of January 31: 3,076Percentage that were Marines: 28 Iraqi civilian deaths, […]
In the wee hours of January 29, two UVA students were sexually assaulted in the Corner/Wertland Street area between 12:30am and 2:30am. Though the incidents were no doubt scary and have Corner-hoppers on edge, the women reported their attacker was, well, kind of lame. Around 12:30, a 21-year-old student was walking home from Satellite Ballroom. […]
A former Albemarle High School JV girls’ soccer coach entered a plea agreement with federal prosecutors February 1 on counts of child pornography, attempting to obtain child pornography, and coercing minors into sexual acts over the Internet. Raja Charles Jabbour’s agreement says he will serve nine years in prison, then be deported from the country, […]
On Monday, February 5, the capital murder trial of Anthony Dale Crawford got underway at the Charlottesvile Circuit Court.
After a 16-year-old was killed by a Greene County game warden during a traffic stop gone bad on January 24, the question has been raised as to why the warden was there in the first place. Shouldn’t game wardens be off busting sketchy hunters or educating people about inland fish? Are they really trained just […]
The Sustainable Endowments Institute (www.endowmentinstitute.org), a young nonprofit based in Massachusetts, has issued a “sustainability” report card for the 100 North American colleges and universities
Veronica Brooks left the Darden School of Business (www.darden.edu) on January 31 more than a little miffed. After listening to back-and-forth discussion at the school’s first-ever Symposium on Poverty—featuring experts in fields such as public policy, education and outreach—Brooks shook her head in dismay. “I’m just really surprised there isn’t more awareness about these things,” […]
Andrew Wyeth, the American painter, was said to have preferred winter, when a lack of annoyingly bright leaves allowed one to see the “bones of the landscape.” Clearly Wyeth never had to sludge from 14th Street to Newcomb Hall with a 30-pound backpack in 19-degree weather. Charlottesville does not wear winter well.But amidst the dreary […]