New Yorker critic discusses evolution of successful TV
Series finales are by far the most fascinating problems of television, a TV critic from The New Yorker said Nov. 6 at the Jepson Leadership Forum.
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Series finales are by far the most fascinating problems of television, a TV critic from The New Yorker said Nov. 6 at the Jepson Leadership Forum.
During the holidays, it is important for people to be with their families and not have to worry about where they will live, senior Greg Lauritano said.
Michael Ice had a smile and caring personality that will be forever remembered, Jim Glasheen, 44, an uncle of Ice said at the wake held Tuesday in Rye, N.Y.
In one of my classes this semester, the teacher showed us a PowerPoint that included a quotation containing the word "Negro." After she read it, she turned to the one black person in our class and said, "Sorry, (his name)."
Senior Katie Der predicted since she was a freshman that she would leave her hometown of Chester, Va., after graduation and relocate to New York City - until recently, she said.
This is the incendiary tale of a couple of average Richmond kids, trying to come to grips with success ... who come up short, with nothing to show for themselves but a tale that begs to be told.
When entering a University Forest Apartment on campus, a visitor would expect to see band posters, gaming systems, photographs and sports paraphernalia. But this is not the case in the apartment where Elizabeth Timmis lives.
As hundreds of mourners stood quietly outside of the Our Lady of Victory church in Floral Park, N.Y., on the morning of July 19, thunder rolled and rain began to fall, but no one moved. Minutes later, when hundreds more filed out of the church to pay their final respects to Jamie and Paige Malone, the sun shone brightly.
To quote: "What kills me about news reports on this issue is that they focus on what feminists think ... Do people claim that the Holocaust was a Jewish issue or that slavery was an African issue? ... This is not simply a feminist issue and to write it off as such is to do the human population at large a major injustice."
A team of four University of Richmond senior business students won the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Virginia Investment Research Challenge on Feb. 26 and went on to regional competition in New York City March 17 and 18.
A girl was walking down Amsterdam Avenue with an old-school Adidas duffel bag and a big hankering for a soft pretzel. She was wearing a skirt that looked more like a T-shirt. Her glasses were big, clear and plastic; similar to something you'd see a nut-job scientist wear in a movie. The oversized gray hoodie she wore to cover her matted hair had a Yiddish saying scribbled on the back. As it turns out, that girl was me.
The literary world needs to forget preconceived notions of fiction and nonfiction and develop new forms of literature that mimic the digital, fast-paced developments of the 21st century, New York Times bestselling author David Shields said to an audience of about 60 people on Monday night.
It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in America. It is consistently listed among the most widely disseminated papers in the world. It has received 33 Pulitzer Prizes and started publication in 1889. As you can see, The Wall Street Journal should need no introduction - except maybe on the University of Richmond's campus.
A 2005 University of Richmond graduate, Adnan Hajizada, has been arrested, detained and apparently beaten in Azerbaijan after he and a fellow activist posted video critical of the nation's government, according to e-mails and media reports.
I've finally been outted by an online comment (don't we just love www.thecollegianur.com?) - I'm not really from Compton. My name just "grants me access to a pun," and to be honest, I didn't actually know who N.W.A. was. But whatever, we'll just call it irony that I actually come from the Midwest. I mean, St. Louis (my real hometown) is up there in standing, as far as rap music goes (until he semi-fell off the face of the earth, who didn't love Nelly? And J-Kwon and Chingy were clearly so legit). But I digress.
In two and a half months, University of Richmond senior Kate Hudson will fly across the country to San Diego, Calif., to run the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in honor of the friend she made three years ago when they shared their battles with cancer.
NEW YORK -- Friday night I stood beside more than 30 Richmond alumni to watch our football team make school history. From 800 miles away, we packed into a pub named The Australian and screamed with the crowds in Chattanooga, Tenn., and every other fan watching around the nation. Although I felt like a teenybopper wearing my Richmond '11 T-shirt, I didn't care because the place was packed and our Spiders rocked the house.
In an era when such a staggering amount of news is so readily available, it would follow that the American public would be more informed than ever.
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