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Boyer named Virginia Business Person of the Year
Shawn Boyer Born: Aug. 8, 1971 in Richmond High school: Lafayette High School in Williamsburg College: Bachelor's degree in business administration, College of William & Mary, which he attended on a football scholarship Graduate school: Law degree, Washington & Lee University; master of law in taxation degree, Georgetown University Law Center ...
FBR Capital Markets Adds Senior Analysts to Its Research Platform;...
FBR Capital Markets Corporation , a leading investment bank serving the middle market, today announced the addition of four veteran analysts to its Research platform.
STAUNTON - Dr. Alden Scott Anderson Jr. was born Dec. 1, 1926, in Badin, N.C., to Isabella Caroline Sterrett Anderson and the Rev.
W&L student business plan helps villagers in Amazon
LEXINGTON - When Katie Harris and Allie Long, both students at Washington and Lee University, first visited the village of Nossa Senhora das Gracas in the Amazon, they thought they had just the plan to help the villagers establish a thriving business.
News, Weather and Sports for Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley
What should Tennessee do about Highway 64?: Build a four lane bypass away from the river, over the mountains, and leave the current road alone.
W&L graduate killed in Afghanistan
The Department of Defense reports that Army Spc. Christopher James Coffland, 43, of Baltimore, Maryland was killed in Afghanistan on November 13.
Soldier with Worcester ties killed in Afghanistan
A 43-year-old Baltimore man who joined the Army Reserve just shy of the cutoff date for enlisting and was deployed to Afghanistan two weeks ago was killed there Friday in a roadside bombing, the Baltimore Sun reported Sunday.
End-of-life decisions are heartwrenching
By GREGORY PENCE At the end of December 2000 on a cold night, my brother Bob called.
Georgian Court receives National Leadership Honor Society charter
Lakewood, N.J., Nov. 13, 2009 - Georgian Court University's petition for a charter of the National Leadership Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa, was recently approved by the organization's board of directors.
As congress debates their health care reform bill, college students at Eastern Mennonite University got a closer look at what congress plans to do.
Teaching failure may be best lesson for the future
Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about journalistic ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., announced that Mr.
Festival of Sacred Christmas music keeps Christ in holiday
Christmas is coming in less than a month for Brice Marsh, now living in the Birmingham area.
Nay President, Mattie Vice President Of New Lexington Police Dept. Foundation
A member of the City of Lexington Ministerial Association: The Reverend William M. Klein - A member of the Bar of Rockbridge County/City of Lexington: Donald Jackson Ellis, Esq.
I'm going to give everybody until 5 p.m. today to enter the contest to win Alton Brown's book, "Good Eats: The Early Years." The winner will be announced on this blog on Monday.
Analysis: Failure 101: a class students could use
Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington & Lee University in Virginia announced Blair would speak Friday at a journalism conference there.
Lessons on journalism ethics -- from Jayson Blair?
If you organized a conference on marital fidelity and made Elliot Spitzer the keynote speaker, that would raise some eyebrows.
Brown Showcases Poetry At Lee University Writer's Festival
Dr. Kevin Brown was the featured writer in the first event of the Lee University Writer's Festival.
The Florida Board of Governors has appointed William R. Johnston and Felice C. Schulaner to the board of trustees at New College of Florida.
Iranian Scholar to Lecture on Iran at W&L
Thirty years after Iranian students, in the aftermath of the revolution of 1979, occupied the American Embassy and took American hostages, Hossein Sheiban, a professor of history and visiting scholar at Washington and Lee University, will give a talk that looks back over Iran's history and examines the country's situation today.
W&L Hosts International Theater Festival and Symposium
Some big international names in the theater world will be attending the 10th National Symposium of Theater in Academe at Washington and Lee University from November 11 - "14. Titled "Performyth," the symposium has expanded this year to include the First International Theater Festival.
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