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“I don’t know. She said she fell asleep, it was so bad.” This was the warning from my wife after one of our friends saw an early screening of Oliver Stone’s “W.,” a chronicle of the life and times of the 43rd President of the United States of America, who thankfully is weeks away from…
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“I took a little trip to my hometown, I only stopped just to look around …” – Paul Anka (1960) The morning air was nippy, the sky royal blue, traffic surprisingly light, and while not yet mid-morning, sidewalks were full of people hustling to wherever they might be headed.
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There was no way, I told people, often, that Sam Rasoul doesn’t get at least 40 percent in his Sixth District race with Bob Goodlatte. The kid plain outworked Goodlatte from start to finish, and then, hey, wasn’t Goodlatte running commercials at the end, and telling audiences what he would do “if” he was re-elected…
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Jay Hullett has been named systems manager at the DuPont Community Credit Union. Hullett, of Waynesboro, has been with the credit union for five years. His most recent position had him working as the systems-processing supervisor. He had started his career at DCCU as a teller.
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They didn’t call Manny Fernandez “The Raging Bull” because it sounded like good marketing. “The old-timers, they liked me, for some reason. OK, they liked me because I used to get into fights all the time in football,” said Fernandez, who will be wrestling Dylan Eaton on the card at Night of the Superstars VI…
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Forget about last night. But don’t forget what happened last week. A local hero was reborn in Philadelphia. Our man, now everybody’s man, Charlie Manuel did it. Charlie took his Phillies to the World Series and beyond. His club won it all – World Champs.
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Column by Carl Larsen In recent years, Clint Eastwood has given us a pretty grim universe. He wins a lot of Oscars, but the movie world he creates as a director is not exactly full of sweetness and light. “Mystic River” (2003) was heart-wrenching, “Million Dollar Baby,” the following year, even gloomier, then came his…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He started his general-election campaign here in June after sewing up the Democratic Party nomination, and he’s going to end it here late Monday night. Still want to quibble over how seriously Barack Obama is taking Virginia? “What better way is there to showcase the importance of this state as…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I was working for an ultraconservative newspaper based in Charlottesville – not exactly the best place for somebody who would later become the chair of a Democratic Party committee to be, but it paid the bills. It also gave me a different perspective on Mark Warner, at first a skeptical…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Bob Goodlatte campaign contacted Rockingham County Democrat Mike Breeden asking Breeden’s permission to use his name on a campaign mailer as a supporter. Breeden didn’t return the phone call, but his name ended up in the mailer anyway, at the top of a list of eight Democrats and eight…
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