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Story by Bonnie P. Lofton When Lisa L. Schirch, professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, launched the 3D Security Initiative in November 2006, she had no way of knowing how long it might take for 3D to gain the attention of top decisionmakers in this country. Regardless of the months, years or even decades…
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Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com I often think about our rural grandmothers and great grandmothers, and the lives they lived. In many mountain homes, electrity didn’t arrive until the ’50s; outhouses were still a common sight through the ’60s and ’70s. I still see, though rarely now, smoke coming from chimneys sometimes on a summer…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen “Juno” is the freshest film I’ve seen all year, even though if you look at the bare bones of Diablo Cody’s wonderful script, you’ll see it’s a fairly conventional coming-of-age story. But the bones are where convention ends.
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Virginia baseball wins College World Series It has to happen eventually, doesn’t it? Brian O’Connor has a pitching staff capable of shutting down anybody. This year he gets the offense to pick things up when the pitching has issues. ASCENDING: JMU men’s basketball, UR football HOLDING…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The subject isn’t evolution, and the barristers aren’t William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. But the upcoming trial of a Staunton adult-video store owner on obscenity charges has some of that Scopes Monkey Trial flavor to it. Doesn’t it? I mean, on the one side, you have the fundamentalists who…
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Story by Matthew Warner What’s so horrible about porn other than the poor quality of most of it? And why should you care? ‘LITERARY OBSCENITY’ Watch out, you writers and purveyors of erotic horror and explicit romance. The folks here in my Bible Belt city of Staunton, Virginia, care quite a bit. Last summer, when…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Charles Nesbitt Wilson retired from the U.S. House of Representatives 10 years ago. But the liberal-minded rollicking rebel is only now getting the national fame he so richly deserves.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Wake Forest, George Washington and Maryland at home, Pittsburgh in a holiday tournament, Clemson and Liberty on the road. Kenny Brooks will play anybody anywhere anytime. “We’re no longer trying to win 22 games playing against nobody and don’t have a shot at an NCAA bid. We’re trying to get…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte With the holiday season fully upon us, and the rush to complete last-minute Christmas-present purchases under way, it is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle, and in the process somehow lose sight of more important things.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So there’s this study out there that seems to indicate that women think – well, if you ask them, they know – that they have to work harder at their jobs than men. Now, being a man who thinks himself that he has to work pretty hard, and over the…
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