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James Madison set a program record for runs over a four-game stretch with 91 while picking up a 19-12 win and earn the series sweep over Bucknell on Sunday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU improved to 4-0 on the season while Bucknell dropped to 0-4. The win followed a Friday score…
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I just attended my third funeral locally since the start of the year – with a fourth coming up on the weekend – somewhat disconcerting in itself. Stop it, people! You loved life with a passion, so did you leave us this way, I think frequently as pay my respects to the families of these…
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When you work box office at a movie theater, you become very practiced in the art of people watching. I realize that makes me sound like a complete creep, but its something that cannot be helped. You notice when an elderly couple in their Sunday best come in to view a matinee showing of “Jackass…
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Liberals are pointing the finger at conservatives, who are jabbing right back at liberals. Well, you’re the guys using crosshairs to point out your political hit lists. Oh, yeah, well, you did it back during the Bush years. Both sides are missing the point. It’s not if one or the other side is wrong or…
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Truman H. Brunk of Harrisonburg was imposing in stature, with a heart that beat with rhythmic passion for life, for his Lord and for the many people whose lives he touched over the years. Truman, only recently retired from many years of ministry and mentoring, somehow managed to uncover the positive in just about every…
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Written by Chris Graham [email protected] “Chris Graham is the choice.” I don’t remember the exact wording. I do remember reading the headline that said this or something pretty close out loud and thinking, This is it! “What?” My wife, Crystal, was incredulous. She could sense it, too. Skimming through the endorsement editorial in the…
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Tuesday, Nov. 10 MR. GIBBS: Good morning, folks. How is everyone? Who’s first? Q Two questions about Fort Hood. Just a logistical question: The schedule has the President meeting with wounded troops twice, before and after the service. Are these all troops wounded in the shooting, or is this two different groups?
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Friday, Nov. 6 MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let me – I’m going to start with a couple of things. I was going to do a week ahead but, as you might imagine, the week ahead prior to leaving for Asia is a bit in flux. As that gets filled in throughout the rest of today,…
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A four-team tournament in Myrtle Beach, an extended trip to Florida, a home-and-away series with Virginia, 12 games against 2009 NCAA Tournament teams, and home night games for the first time in program history highlight the 2010 James Madison baseball schedule released Tuesday. “It’s one of the toughest schedules we’ve had at JMU,” commented head…
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Oct. 2-Dec. 15: PRISM Gallery Exhibition, open during normal building hours, lower level of Festival Conference and Student Center: “Looking Out – Thirty Years of Study Abroad at JMU, 1979-2009” traces the development of JMU’s study abroad program since its beginnings in London; the program continues to flourish and now sends more than 1,000 students…
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