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Through the first ten minutes of the game, Virginia answered each Maryland goal with an equalizer, knotting the game 3-3. After Maryland rattled off three straight goals to take a 6-3 lead with 14:49 left in the first half, Ashlee Warner took a feed from Caroline McTiernan to narrow the gap to 6-4 with 10:12 left in the half.
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The No. 19 Virginia baseball team recorded its fourth shutout in five games Friday with a 3-0 blanking of Harvard at Davenport Field. UVa starting pitcher Brandon Waddell (Fr., Houston, Texas) worked six scoreless innings, extending the Cavalier starting pitchers’ scoreless streak to 40 1/3 straight innings.
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When I think of George W. Bush growing up in that family of origin of his, I think of him as being in a troubled position. Problems with the father seem pretty clear. I’m not sure how it was with the mother, but I can imagine some humiliation (hence emasculation).
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Conservatives who bemoan big government don’t seem to understand that they’re not helping their case to complain so vociferously about how the automatic defense budget cuts triggered by the sequester plan will negatively impact the economy.
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“Look, they had a great crowd. I don’t want to demean the game by this. They played great. (Joe) Harris was unbelievable. That’s the story. Not what happened … we lost. That’s the story of the game. Please. This is not where I want to go with this.”
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Joe Harris scored a career-high 36 points to carry UVa. to its 20th win of the season, 73-68, in front of a packed and raucous house at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville Thursday night.
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Despite a 23-point performance from Ataira Franklin (Jr., Odenton, Md.), the Virginia women’s basketball team fell 80-59 at NC State, the fifth-straight loss for the Cavaliers.
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Not only did the 2013 session of the General Assembly end on time last Saturday, but it also ended on a high note. Having sat through a couple of decades of failed efforts to pass meaningful legislation addressing our transportation needs, I was not optimistic that we would be successful this year. The Governor’s proposal to fix a billion dollar problem with a revenue-neutral solution did not give me much hope. I was both amazed and delighted when the House passed a transportation funding bill by a vote of 60 to 40 that provides new revenue to meet road and transit needs.
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The state’s largest farmers’ advocacy organization this week voiced approval of property rights bills that were successful in this year’s Virginia General Assembly.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday that the inaugural Governor’s Holiday Hoops Classic raised an additional $48,695 for Virginia’s food banks from proceeds of ticket sales.
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