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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 ...

" Dr. S. Todd Lowry, professor emeritus of economics at Washington and Lee University, has returned from Tokyo, where he delivered a paper on November 15 at the international Workshop on Mathematical Economics at Keio University.

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.

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.

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The Department of Defense reports that Army Spc. Christopher James Coffland, 43, of Baltimore, Maryland was killed in Afghanistan on November 13.

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.

As congress debates their health care reform bill, college students at Eastern Mennonite University got a closer look at what congress plans to do.

By GREGORY PENCE At the end of December 2000 on a cold night, my brother Bob called.

Charities and other nonprofits may put their brand at risk when they partner with corporations on social responsibility initiatives.

Attention was drawn to Virginia this week with the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the state's 104th person to be executed since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.

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.

Accuracy in Media "Six years is a journalism lifetime in the information age, and Jayson Blair has been out of the business that long," writes Daniel Glover .

LEXINGTON, Va., Nov. 11, 2009 a ' The portion of Woods Creek Trail from Jordana TMs Point to the property line between Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute will be closed Nov.

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.

Of the finds he listed, I thought these were the most interesting. First, that race wasn't much of a factor in his journalistic rise and fall: Blair rejected the notion that his story should have any bearing on the future of other black journalists or efforts to achieve "diversity" in American newsrooms.

NYTimes.com "But how much stock can you put in what's said by someone best known for lying?" asks David Folkenflik .

A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists." Town officials in Kent are balking, saying it would be inappropriate to single out a religious group in a project on town property and ...

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.