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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Slathered with high-falutin’ talk and dripping with shaky history, “Elizabeth: The Golden Years” sails into Staunton, drops anchor at the Visulite, and tells the glorious tale of England as only those Brits can tell it.
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Story by Chris Graham It was an event six years in the making – but George Hawke took it in stride. “I don’t need to read it. I know what it says,” said Hawke, holding a copy of his new historical volume, The History of Waynesboro, Virginia: 1900 to 1976, which was hot off the…
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Column by Jim Bishop This weakly EML (English as a Maltreated Language) experimentation generates considerable reader response, and I’m grateful.
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Story by Jim Bishop Spencer L. Cowles, chair of the department of business and economics at Eastern Mennonite University, feels like he had the best of all possible worlds during his recent sabbatical. Prior to teaching at EMU, Cowles worked in commercial banking at a major New England bank, where he developed skills in financial…
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The Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] You want evidence as to why the New York Yankees should move on from the Joe Torre Era into what I think should be the Joe Girardi Era? Two words: Dave Leitao. Leitao is the Joe Girardi of UVa. basketball – a get-in-your-face coach…
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Story by Chris Graham I spent a few minutes in the director’s chair during the production on “Familiar Strangers,” a feature film produced by the Charlottesville-based Cavalier Films that is slated for release next year. So you can add me to the long list of people who played a role in the making of the…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: BeamerBall No, you don’t expect BeamerBall to produce three return touchdowns every week – but you do expect it at the least to give the offense short fields to work with. That’s how you win 80 percent of your games by handing the ball to a…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The leaves begin to fall to earth. The air turns crisp. ‘Tis time for a deluge of Relationship Movies – our autumnal harvest of Sensitive Young People getting their hearts stomped on, valiantly facing unspeakable angst, revealing their innermost secrets, and in the end finding their One…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The 27th Senate District promised to be a wide-open affair even before moderate Republican Sen. Russ Potts announced his retirement plans. But now with Potts out of the picture, the battle between his successor as the Republican standard-bearer in the district that stretches from Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was once referred to as “human cockfighting” by its detractors. But could it actually be that mixed martial arts – known by its growing legions of fans by the acronym MMA – is actually safer than the more mainstream combat sport of boxing?
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