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Reading the news is usually an ordeal of watching the world fall apart at an accelerating pace, so when four United Nations agencies offer a new count of mothers’ deaths worldwide in pregnancy and childbirth, one braces for another depressing and insoluble problem. The numbers over the past 20 years, after all, have been stubbornly…
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WINNER: Schaub burns ‘Skins Hard to say there was a loser on Sunday at FedEx. Matt Schaub threw for 497 yards in leading the Houston Texans to a come-from-behind 30-27 overtime victory over the Washington Redskins, who did everything but put Houston away in the fourth quarter. Graham Gano had a chip-shot field goal blocked…
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the media on Monday in advance of the Cavs’ game with VMI on Saturday. COACH LONDON: Before we get started, obviously a couple recent events to discuss here and we will start with Tim Smith. Unfortunately Tim being a socialite on a social media network had talked about…
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There’s blood in the water, and conservatives in the Republican Party are in feeding-frenzy mode. Can’t blame them, really. All the polling being done these days suggests that the American public is ambivalent about where things seem to be headed – still. I say still because you can really trace this back to probably Richard…
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Mathers Construction Co. has been around as long as Waynesboro has been an independent city. “Mathers has always been a Waynesboro company. We have to be here. This is home,” said Dave Gauldin, who purchased Mathers in October 2009, and recently announced plans to consolidate operations of Mathers and subsidiaries Augusta Erectors Inc., Bottom Alley…
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I saw it coming, but pretended it wasn’t happening. Eventually, the problem caught up with me. Technology – specifically, nearly-outdated technology – stopped me in my (recording) tracks, mid-sentence and mid-music selection. I went back and started over repeatedly over a two-day period and finally told myself, “Houston – or Harrisonburg – we’ve got a…
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Veteran British actor David Payne will present “An Evening with C.S. Lewis,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22 in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at EMU. The one-man performance takes place in the twilight years of the life of the renowned British author and Christian apologist. With a display of oratory and humor that made…
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Opening Statement “I think for us as a football team, we need to concentrate on the details offensively, defensively, special team-wise. Offensively, we didn’t really get it done – one block away, lack of overall execution. Defensively there were 16 plays, I think, that we had a missed assignment on. Again I think James Madison…
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Opening Statement “I think for us as a football team, we need to concentrate on the details offensively, defensively, special team-wise. Offensively, we didn’t really get it done – one block away, lack of overall execution. Defensively there were 16 plays, I think, that we had a missed assignment on. Again I think James Madison…
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Lynne Koplitz wasn’t even back in Staunton yet, and already her mother was working her. “I get off the plane, and my mother just started in with what I wasn’t allowed to talk about,” said Koplitz, a standup comedian who is back in her adopted hometown for a benefit show for the Staunton Augusta Art…
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