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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Inga.” It was the big to-do back in 1968 when it was released in America. “Filmed entirely in Sweden,” a snapshot on movietime.com relates, “‘Inga’ brims with a European sensuality and eroticism that shocked American audiences upon its release in 1968.” That about sums it up right there, doesn’t it?…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It wasn’t that there was much left downtown, but Phil Lemons knew that whatever traffic there had been before the West End took off with the opening of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro in 2003 was pretty much going, going, gone. “Having experienced it in other towns, whenever a shopping center comes…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Somebody asked Don Morris to sign a petition protesting the pending arrival of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro six years ago. That the longtime Downtown Waynesboro business owner didn’t is an indication of where his thoughts are on economic-development issues. “That to me was a no-brainer. Staunton had a Wal-Mart, Staunton had…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Virginia Tech sports The men’s basketball team qualifies for the NCAA Tournament. Men’s soccer goes to the Final Four. The football team ends the part of the season that matters ranked #3 in the BCS. The first two are probably the most important. Tech is not…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Kansas City strip steaks and sunflower seeds at Richmond International Raceway. Tell me what this has to do with Virginia Tech football again? “We’re already starting to light the grills up – so we’re confident on the staff here at Richmond International Raceway,” said Doug Fritz, the president of RIR…
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Best Seat in the House by Chris Graham [email protected] Two questions have my attention right now regarding Michael Vick. One, was 23 months enough for leading a dogfighting ring and personally participating in the executions of several dogs that had been deemed not up to standards to complete in the bloodsport? Two, is 23 months going to…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I want to call the 1-nil win at top-ranked UConn. last weekend a program-defining win for the Virginia Tech men’s soccer program. But I might be jumping the gun there. “They’ve got great players. They’ve been by far the number one if not the number two…
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Column by Todd Wickersty ToddWickersty.com I am from Jacksonville. I am a Hokie. Please move the damn game to Charlotte, but don’t be fooled. The ACC Championship Game will still have problems. I was in Jacksonville the week leading up to the game, and left for home (C’ville) the day before the game. So, count…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Biggest Football Game Ever Played is set for Saturday in Charlottesville – but the biggest football game of the opening weekend of the 2007 Football Championship Subdivision playoffs will be going on down the Blue Ridge in Boone, N.C., when the last two I-AA national champs meet in Kidd…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Saxman sees the political battle up ahead as “an uphill sled.” But the Shenandoah Valley legislator isn’t one to shy away from a fight. And no, I’m not talking here about his own dalliance with a run at the Republican Senate nomination in 2008. “John McCain is an American…
