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QUESTION: Can you talk a little bit about the opportunity that major collegiate athletics and a game like this affords for raising awareness of causes and diseases like this? COACH LONDON: When you have an opportunity that’s presented with a platform such as this, with a guy like Coach Fisher—a well-respected coach in college football…
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Compared to the group of recent would-be Republican presidential candidates, the little monster depicted in Clint Eastwood’s new film, “J. Edgar,” could qualify as just another power-mad nutcase. But even though Eastwood low-balled the seedier aspects of the little guy’s life, you’ve got to give Hoover credit for collecting dirt and sweeping through Washington, D.C.,…
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Secrecy, personal vendettas and radicalization are at the root of problems being experienced by the Occupy Charlottesville movement, which a founding member feels is on the brink of splitting apart at the seams. “It feels like chopping off a limb. The people there … I thought they were pretty good people. But I realize that…
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The Presbyterian College Blue Hose picked up 266 yards on the ground and led wire to wire, picking up a 38-6 win over the VMI Keydets Saturday afternoon at Bailey Memorial Stadium in Clinton, S.C. Quarterback Ryan Singer threw for 182 yards and two scores, and also had 106 of the PC rushing yards as…
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November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and the Waynesboro Family YMCA wants residents of Waynesboro and Augusta County to be aware of their risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes – and preventative steps they can take today to reduce that risk. Currently, nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes and a staggering 79 million people…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation is using design-build procurement methods to accelerate the delivery of several projects made possible through the governor’s transportation funding package which was adopted by the 2011 General Assembly, and other federal dollars. The design-build procurement method streamlines project delivery by placing responsibility for the…
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Lobbyists are storming Capitol Hill, pushing a tax holiday that would give billions of dollars in tax breaks to less than 1 percent of American businesses – and stick the other 99 percent with the bill. But of course, they can’t say that. So tax holiday advocates are using a high-powered version of the email…
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QUESTION: Teams tend to be more successful throwing the ball, as opposed to running, against your defense. Do you expect more of the same Saturday against Duke? COACH LONDON: You always go into the game and you try to see what teams do best. And as your game plan, what you try to do is…
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Tracy Pyles is frequently criticized for not being able to play well with others. That’s a fair observation. Also fair would be the observation that Pyles thinks the current majority on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors is taking the county in the wrong direction, and playing nice isn’t going to get things moving in…
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I’ve known Dickie Bell for more than a decade. And the Dickie Bell that I know, I like a lot. This other Dickie Bell, the one who comes across as a hard-core social and fiscal conservative, I don’t know him that well, but I understand what’s going on there. Back when Dickie first got the…
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