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      <description><![CDATA[Democrat Robin Abbott captured enough Peninsula votes Tuesday to knock off Del. Phil Hamilton, a powerful Peninsula lawmaker who battled scandal on the re-election campaign trail.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check out President Taylor Reveley's stirring speech to the Class of 1984, a performance from alumni band, the Velveteens, and more!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Newport News attorney Douglas E. Miller has been selected to replace retiring U.S. Magistrate Judge James E. Bradberry.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rod Woodson says he doesn't mind that New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper is threatening to erase his name from the NFL record books.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Pharmaceuticals Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[With Election Day quickly approaching, candidates for the Cheshire Town Council made a push to get their message out to the public, as they debated the issues at a candidate forum last week...]]></description>
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      <title>Alvaro Garcia-Tunon &apos;79: Matthews International Announces New Director</title>
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      <title>Long To-Do List for New U.S. Parks Chief, Jonathan Jarvis &apos;75</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Jarvis assumed the helm of America's national parks this month, but not before he made two important pilgrimages.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The George Wythe Society of Citizen Lawyers and the Employment and Labor Law Society hosted a lecture by Judith M. Conti, co-founder of the D.C. Employment Justice Center (DC EJC) and a graduate of the College’s Law School.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A College of William and Mary program to encourage science and engineering education in middle schools will now be taken to the national level after receiving $900,000 in federal funding.]]></description>
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      <title>Tim Hugo &apos;86 defending spot as delegate in 40th District</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Democrat Susan Conrad knows she has an uphill battle in her quest to unseat Tim Hugo as 40th District delegate, but that only makes her try harder...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton calls him “Bob.” Robert Gates more formally calls her “The Secretary,” but the glow comes through when he gets all huffy about Congress not giving her more money...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) Secretary Janet Napolitano today applauded President Obama's intent to nominate Caryn Wagner as Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis ( I&A ).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[As a recent graduate of the College of William and Mary, I am disturbed by politicians using Virginia's public universities as a political football...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Suffolk organization, two Suffolk residents and a Suffolk student were among those honored by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation this week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Jessica Hovick,of Port Matilda, recently graduated from the College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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      <description><![CDATA[Work continues on a 400-year-old slate tablet discovered in a well at James Fort as researchers try to separate signal from noise.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[During his keynote on Wednesday, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner summed up the past year in four weeks. "Between September 15th and October 15th, our world changed. I mean, we had a pretty good Q1, we had an okay Q2, and wow, in the process, the world changed."]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[General contractor Branscome Inc. has promoted F. Hunter Creech III to chief financial officer. Creech, a certified public accountant who previously was the company's vice president of finance, has been with Branscome for 12 years.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Defense secretary says the expensive F-22 fighter jet has limited use and building more may make the U.S. more vulnerable.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ashley Hampton of Dillsburg, Laura Grieneisen of Carlisle and Alan Kennedy-Shaffer of Mechanicsburg recently graduated from the College of William and Mary.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A graduate of the College of William and Mary and Southeastern Seminary, Reynolds previously was assistant professor of education at Southeastern.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The two came into the football spotlight at Bath County High School.  John will be heading to Dallas, Texas shortly for the beginning of training camp with the Cowboys.  Jake will go back to Williamsburg to continue working out.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The recent commander of forces in Afghanistan ended a military career today that began in 1972.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[“He will be brought in temporarily to assist with priority projects,” city spokeswoman Rami Altherr said about the job with an indefinite term that comes without retirement, health insurance, paid vacation or other benefits, she said.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Buckwalter, 72, a Republican who once served as district attorney in conservative Lancaster County, said he had to balance the Philadelphia Democrat's crimes with the good he had accomplished over his decades-long legislative career.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mary Lugo is now principal of Mt. Vernon Elementary School. Lugo previously served as assistant principal at Seaford Elementary School. The position at Mt. Vernon was vacated by Barbara Wood, who took a job with Poquoson Public Schools.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 2004, Jon Stewart gave a prophetic commencement speech at his alma mater, William and Mary.  He told the graduates that...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to Food World, Ukrop’s has been in discussions with potential buyers for its 28 stores, including Harris Teeter, Supervalu and Netherlands-based Ahold.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc., which was hit in May by the abrupt retirement of its longtime CEO, said Tuesday that it hired a successor with experience in community banking in the region.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[At WasteZero's garbage-bag factory in Hemingway, employees stuff blue garbage bags - emblazoned with the town seal of Malden, Mass. - into boxes that will soon appear on store shelves in the New England town of 56,000.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Musinski grabbed seven receptions for 102 yards and three touchdowns, while J.J. Outlaw had a team-high 122 yards on just five catches.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[And now — just over two months after the record was broken on the College of William and Mary campus — the King of Pop is dead.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[William and Mary Director of Swimming and Diving Matt Crispino ’02 announced the College's 2009-10 recruiting class on Thursday, adding seven highly touted recruits to the Tribe's already immensely talented roster.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[WWE announced this morning they hired former NFL executive Jim Connelly to the position of Senior VP for Consumer Products. He will be in charge of licensing, home video, and book/magazine publishing.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[William and Mary women’s basketball coach Debbie Taylor ’86 announced today the hiring of All-Ivy player Erin Rewalt as an assistant coach for the Tribe program. The appointment is pursuant to final approval from the College’s Board of Visitors.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Greg Sexton ’08 is playing third base for the Charlotte Stone Crabs of the Class A Advanced Florida State League. Sexton is hitting .251 with seven doubles and 36 RBIs.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The College of William and Mary’s Director of Swimming and Diving Matt Crispino ’02 announced the Tribe’s 2009-10 schedule today.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[As D. Scott Bailey prepared to be sworn in as a judge in Prince William Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, he said he found himself surrounded by support from family, friends and co-workers.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Leicester dance company is hoping to get more people than ever before to perform the dance routine from Michael Jackson's hit song in the same place, at the same time.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When William and Mary students care about an issue, they put their heads together -- and their wallets. And they get right to work.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Fredericksburg actor and a Richmond-based bagpipes-and-drums band playing traditional Scottish tunes will have starring roles at Saturday's Independence Day gala in Port Royal.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr. David Gilfoil, assistant professor of business at DeSales University and formerly managing director and president of Agere Japan in Tokyo, has been named director of the DeSales University MBA Program.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vance Briceland '85 has written a fantasy novel for young adults titled The Glass Maker's Daughter (Flux, 2009).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Warden had left Washington, D.C., and a job as Thompson’s communications director, for life with her husband in Chicago.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[She joined head coach Darcie Vincent's staff with the Mountaineers after serving as an assistant for two years at another Division I university, Colgate, in Hamilton, N.Y.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[William and Mary alums Al Albert '69, Jane Spurling '69, Win Whitehurst '69 and Donn Wonnell '69 reflect on their experience at the College.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Honored with a creative teaching award during the annual celebration of Duquesne University's Center for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes faculty who introduce innovative ways of teaching.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former William and Mary cornerback Derek Cox '09 of Winterville, N.C., was selected April 26 by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the NFL Draft.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When Christopher Walsh '00 began working as a landscape architect, he had not pictured himself designing schoolyards in Rwanda for the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not a single global warming rally takes place, it seems, without someone dressing up as a polar bear. For that, you can thank Kassie Siegel '95, the attorney who got the polar bear officially recognized as an endangered species due to melting Arctic ice -- and in the process made it the poster child for global warming.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paul J. Reagan '82, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., replies modestly when asked about his experience learning to navigate the Senate after working almost 20 years in the House of Representatives.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[John has served as Project Director for Tallen and Keshen's Madrone Hollywood retail project and also has direct involvement in the legal and business matters involving the company's portfolio of assets.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Matthew Brigman of Dalton graduated from the College of William and Mary with a juris doctor degree.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Carson Griffith, 23, who has a degree in international business from the College of William & Mary, is exclaiming over Ms. Klein: “That was an Herve dress and Roger Vivier shoes!”]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Their live performances include a mixed bag of music ranging from folk to jazz to pop.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Flood, 46, is chief executive of the nonprofit Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, which last year distributed 39 million pounds of free food to more than 900 charity agency sites in the county.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[He earned his bachelor's degree in American history from Middlebury College and his law degree from the College of William and Mary, where he was a member of the Law Review.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Margate School District has hired a new principal for the William Ross Intermediate School, Michelle Carney-Ray. She is coming to Margate from the Egg Harbor Township School District, where she was the assistant principal of the Fernwood Avenue Middle School.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Prior to joining Brean Murray Carret & Co., Mr. Baruah was Vice President at Bank of America Securities, where he was named Institutional Investor’s 2008 Best Up and Comer for Imaging Technology.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A newly released book, Getting Up Again - Surviving Unemployment and Pursuing Destiny, sheds a bright light on the personal side of unemployment and gives a firsthand account of how layoffs affect couples.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[She started an internship at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts after graduating from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ian Robert Macumber will receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from UMass Medical School today at ceremonies to be held on the campus in Worcester.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Benedictine High School's headmaster has been forced out by senior monks who are reorganizing the administration of the 98-year-old school.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Students can connect with William and Mary alumni directly by participating in the Student Alumni Council (SAC) organization.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This race is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Peter Still. Peter was a scholar, gentleman, runner, and a friend to many.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jacksonville rookie cornerback Derek Cox is armed with three things as he makes his way through the team's Organized Team Activities this week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[David B. Scott has been promoted to president at Chase Investment Counsel. He will continue in his role as chief investment officer. He earned his bachelor's degree and MBA from the College of William and Mary.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Guinness made it official on 5/5/09! With 242, the group set and now holds the Thriller world record!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Taking a cue from voters who elected a president promising a different approach, the Obama administration is replacing the general overseeing the war in Afghanistan with a commander who has special-forces experience.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Interim Okaloosa County Sheriff Ed Spooner's choice to oversee the agency's finances is an honest accountant, he said Sunday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Prior to joining Beacon, Tokar was Chief Executive Officer of Allied Capital Management and Vice President of Investments at Honeywell International.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brandon, Jauron and Kelso individually shared their thoughts on the recent NFL Draft and their thoughts on the current Bills squad.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Governor Charlie Crist appointed two Palm Beach County Court judges, along with two 15th District Circuit Court judges this week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book shows that direct service experience involving an emotional or psychological (affective) connection with a community member or members receiving services prompts an assessment of the participants’ place in society.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Seventh District Republican Congressman Eric Cantor and Third District Democrat Bobby Scott want the Obama administration to get all aboard with a plan to bring high-speed rail to Virginia.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shaunti Feldhahn began her career as an analyst on Wall Street and became a best-selling author and speaker who also writes a weekly opinion column for the online edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[While Piecuch started his career battling flames, he now divides his time between teaching American history at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and browsing historic landmarks at his home in Camden, S.C.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Have you ever crossed the York River Bridge and wondered why it was named after George Coleman? And wondered what is so special about this particular bridge and Coleman?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[As director of the Center for Democratic Governance from 2002 through 2008, Bland supervised 11 U.S. Agency for International Development projects abroad and served as lead technical advisor to each of them.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We can all carry the positive momentum forward, and we don't need to win the Super Bowl to do it. Each alumnus and alumna has his or her own success story to tell, and we want to help you tell it.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA["Miles per gallon can be very misleading as an indicator of fuel efficiency," says Richard "Rick" Larrick '86, a professor of management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. "What we really care about is gas consumption -- that's where the gallons per mile measure makes sense."]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is around this place that David Brown '96 and Thane Harpole '96 have created a nonprofit archaeological foundation to fund its rebirth and recreation as a historical preserve and learning center.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two William and Mary alumni were among 13 of the world's scientists who received the Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London in February.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Christina Romer, the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, has been helping sell that plan. NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke with her Thursday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Patton Oswalt appeared with Eliza Dushku in Friday's episode, "Man On The Street," broadly advertised as a game-changer.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Have you been missing the Cheese Shop, Mug Night and Williamsburg in the spring? If so, then the William and Mary Alumni Association and the Young Guarde Council would like to invite you to come back to campus for Young Guarde Weekend 2009.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Richardson, an associate superintendent for New Kent County Public Schools, was chosen from nine candidates who sought to succeed J. Roy Geiger II, who is retiring.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The attorneys who practiced before Circuit Court Judge Duane Mink during his nearly 20 years on the bench all say the same thing: No matter the outcome, they always felt as if they got a fair shake.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The talk was based on her upcoming book of the same name. Gate’s discussed what scientists know about the composition of the universe, what they don’t know yet, and how the study of dark matter and energy could reshape their understanding of the universe.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Feb. 10, six graduate students from the College of William and Mary participated in the fourth annual Graduate Student Research Forum, held at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We are doing the right things in order to run the College efficiently, and we are doing some bench work to prove this,” Vice President of the BOV Henry Wolf ’64, J.D. ’66 said.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Adam Stackhouse '04 and some student friends of his won the Bill Lawrence '90 film contest held at the College last week. Enjoy the winning entry.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Renata Sheppard ’04 danced her way through College — and almost wound up with a degree in biology. Thanks to her love of art and science, she now is able to cultivate her interests into a career that will never get dull.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The General Assembly is now in session and we will have to wait and see how the final numbers shake out before finalizing our budget priorities.  We will do everything in our power to protect the academic mission of the college.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rep. Eric Cantor says he's opposed to moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Virginia when the camp shuts down.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Never pretty. Never perfect. That's head coach Mike Tomlin's mantra for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But after Sunday night's come-from-behind 27-23 victory against the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl, Tomlin's found something pretty to add to the team's trophy case.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Interestingly, though, President-elect Obama's candidate for chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, herself a Keynesian, has done research that undercuts the Keynesian view of good fiscal policy. Some of this research is in a March 2007 paper...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[All this makes Jerry Coyne's lucid, accessible "Why Evolution Is True" desperately needed. With logic and clarity, the University of Chicago professor presents the vast trove of scientific evidence that supports Darwin's theory.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[VIDEO LINK: Tribe head football coach, Jimmye Laycock '70, spoke with Sage Steele on the ESPN show First Take about his former player, and Super Bowl coach, Mike Tomlin '95.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AFC Championship Game had just ended, and Mike Tomlin '95 stood in his usual spot, at the top of the tunnel, just a few feet outside the doors to the Pittsburgh Steelers' dressing room at Heinz Field. He had a hug or a pat on the back for every Steelers player who walked past him.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jeffery Billingsley, senior vice president and market executive, has announced that Sharon Moe '96 has been named vice president for North State Bank.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argon ST, Inc., a leading developer of command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems, today announced that Kerry M. Rowe, the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has been promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer effective January 20, 2009.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA["When I sent the piece to music producer Moses Dillard in Nashville he called me back and asked me how long it took me to write it. I said just minutes. It just came to me. It just flowed out," Francis said.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scott Miller is a thoughtful man, a graduate of the College of William & Mary in his native Virginia. He understands that times are tough in America these days but is optimistic that he and his band, the Commonwealth, will survive the rocky economy.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Even at William and Mary, an elite college just a few dozen miles from his home in Newport News, Va., he playfully mocked one of his best friends as Poem Boy, only to quote Robert Frost in his news conference after the Steelers won the American Football Conference championship last week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jack Hillier, 97, the oldest resident at the New Hampshire Veterans Home, said Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated a year after he was born in 1912. Hillier's life has spanned 17 presidencies to date and Obama's will mark the 18th.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When Joseph Ellis was 17, his father, a secret service officer in Washington, took him to witness the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tomlin replaced Bill Cowher a year after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL. Several key veterans were Cowher loyalists who favored Cowher assistants Ken Whisenhunt or Russ Grimm — both now with the Cardinals preparing to face their old team in Super Bowl XLIII — landing the job.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For alumna Erica Westmoreland (’07), who is the media operations supervisor at the Swem Media Center, and her new husband, Jay (’08), the trip to D.C. has special significance. It is their honeymoon.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The honorees for 2009 are Sarah Kemp Brady '64, Lynn Melzer Dillon '75, Henry H. George '65, Harrison R. Tyler '49 and Sunshine Trumbo Williams '44.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Republican Whip Eric Cantor J.D. '88 of Virginia talks about President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. Cantor held a hearing with the House Republican leadership and economic experts on ways to jump-start the economy.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anne Sutton '95, M.Ed. '96, Ph.D. '00 has made a living in education -- and thanks to her time at the College, she has become a true expert in her field. She’s earned three degrees from our favorite institution, and has transitioned from teaching to counseling. We caught up with her recently and asked her all sorts of questions about what she currently does in the world of education.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A graduate of the College of William and Mary will represent South Carolina in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas later this month.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recently a young male professor in philosophy astonished me when he turned down a tenure-track job offer at a small, rural public university and then decided to leave academe.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ravishing Lavin. Actress Linda Lavin returned to her theatrical roots on Nov. 2 when she gave a benefit for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival at the College of William and Mary.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Closing the Engagement Gap -- How Great Companies Unlock Employee Potential for Superior Results, authors Gebauer and Lowman highlight the "Engaging Eight" -- eight companies that have developed the right combination of leadership focus, management style and culture to drive high engagement.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[While a student at the College of William and Mary, Anshuman Vohra set his sights on becoming a banker in New York City. He majored in finance and became an analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase in 2000.]]></description>
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