Health Care: Reform and Rhetoric

For more than two years the country has been hotly debating the availability and cost of health care. Facts and figures continue to be selectively argued, leaving the impression that universal coverage is either a necessary government obligation or an unaffordable social program. If only the policy considerations were so simple. MORE

 
Chief Justice Awarded Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law

Rather than being merely complex legal abstractions, the decisions made by the Virginia Supreme Court “truly touch the daily lives and affairs of everyone in all walks of life,” Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser ’77 said at the Law School April 14. Kinser, recipient of the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, spoke in Caplin Pavilion as part of events celebrating her award. MORE
 

NFL Players Want Equitable Share

NFL players turned down the “worst deal in professional sports” last month and are now bearing the brunt of the owners’ lockout strategy, said NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith ’89 during a talk at the Darden School of Business on March 31. MORE