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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Aaron McGowan was a computer whiz. “A story that I often tell is when he was 14 years old, I walked into his bedroom, and on the computer screen, it said, Official Site of NASA: Access Granted. And I was like, Aaron, what are you doing? You want the FBI…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rein in federal spending, and the economy will grow. And when the economy grows, the federal budget gets into balance. And when the federal budget gets into balance, you can begin to pay down the national debt. It didn’t necessarily work in the Reagan years, and it’s not exactly working…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” to hear UVa. basketball coach Dave Leitao talk about his team’s preparations for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Show Length: 12:12. It’s a hard reality to have to accept – that a player who averages just 7.3 points per game and 17.4 minutes per game might…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg talk about his team’s preparations for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Show Length: 9:55. You’re Seth Greenberg, and you want to be happy about how far your team has come this year. I mean, you were picked to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine knows that Virginia lawmakers have a tough job. But … A deadline is a deadline is a deadline is a deadline. “We have a very short legislative session compared to most states. Most states have three-, four-, five-, six-month sessions, they’re in all year. The fact…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with UVa. senior point guard Sean Singletary. Show Length: 15:00. Sean Singletary cried enough tears during Virginia’s seven-game losing streak to last him a lifetime. Senior Night wasn’t about tears for the UVa. point guard. “I think because we lost so much,…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen In 1923, Buster Keaton devoted one-third of his “Three Ages” feature film to an energetic, slapsticky take on our cave-dwelling ancestors. Perhaps we should have left well enough alone, and just completely abandoned the idea of ever making a “good” movie about our Ally Oopian predecessors from…
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The Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] You’ll be happy to hear that I beat the deadline for submitting my All-ACC Men’s Basketball Ballot last night. Yep. Filled it out sitting in the John Paul Jones Arena waiting for the Virginia-Maryland game to get going. And yes, I wish I had…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Funny how Hillary Clinton has turned the momentum of her campaign around with a TV commercial asking America who they would rather have in the White House taking a 3 a.m. phone call. You know, considering the 3 a.m. phone calls that used to come into the…
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Column by Sam Rasoul Life can be rough. All of us have hit rough bumps along the road. Growing up in a working-class family, sometimes carrying the burden of bringing home the presents for the family during the holidays, convinced me a teen-ager should not have to take on such responsibilities. In perspective, though, my…
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