VMI falls again, 31-21

Chris Graham

The Charleston Southern Buccaneers earned their first Big South win of 2009 as they defeated the VMI Keydets 31-21 in a Big South Conference football contest played Saturday afternoon at VMI’s Foster Stadium in Lexington. After a contest that featured three ties and multiple lead changes, CSU took command in the fourth quarter. An early…

M. Ram Krishn | Why God must be laughing

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The bombing of a kosher café; a protest over reports that the Quran had been desecrated at an American prison camp; a bomb explosion outside a mosque; a tight security cordon to facilitate a Hindu festival: a snapshot of world news today. What positive difference could any of these acts of violence possibly make to…

President Barack Obama | Remarks on health-insurance reform

Chris Graham

Thursday, Oct. 29 Good afternoon, everybody. Please, have a seat. Before I begin, I want to just acknowledge two people who are working extraordinarily hard on behalf of small businesses. First of all, the administrator of our Small Business Administration, Karen Mills, is here. (Applause.) The other individual who is on his way and will…

Chris Graham | Winners and Losers: Obama, Deeds, Zorn, World Series, McDonnell

Chris Graham

PUSH: Barack Obama campaigns for Creigh Deeds My inclination is to say that Obama ends up losing on this one. I’m surprised he even followed through, to be honest. Not only because Deeds distanced himself from the Obama campaign back in the summer, but because of the obvious – the stink of this campaign is…

‘A true community’

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Once a fixer-upper, Staunton’s Newtown now shining light in Queen City Story by Chris Graham [email protected] People thought Michael Organ was crazy. That old home in Newtown was jaw-dropping beautiful, sure, but who in their right mind would stay at a bed-and-breakfast where you were as likely to get your hubcaps stolen or run into…

Peacebuilding alum talks practical app of nonviolence

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Her name is Leymah Gbowee, a 2007 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Before coming to EMU, Gbowee emerged into the world spotlight when she and a brave group of ordinary women, mostly mothers, banded together to do the unimaginable – use nonviolent methods to confront Liberia’s despotic president Charles Taylor…