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A schism among American University trustees is widening over the future of suspended President Benjamin Ladner, with some beginning private negotiations with his attorneys for a new contract and others pressing for his ouster. … Complicating an already tangled process, Ladner supporters on the board have divided themselves into three strategy groups, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. One group reviewed some of the more than $500,000 of the president's spending questioned in an independent report and determined that he should reimburse the university roughly $21,000. Another group is bringing in a tax expert for advice. And a third is putting together terms of a new contract for Ladner that would reduce his compensation while adding controls over his spending and other activities, the sources said.
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A new UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HAWKEYE POLL says the Republican field for that state's caucuses boils down to Mitt Romney and everyone else. Polling for caucuses is difficult, but these results are pretty easy to read. Romney holds a commanding lead, with 36 percent of likely GOP caucus-goers, almost equal to the next three combined. Those three -- Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson -- are all bunched together at between 11 percent and 13 percent.
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The Young Writers Workshop of the University of Virginia, established in 1982, brings together a community of writers with a common purpose: to create a supportive and noncompetitive environment where teenagers can live and work as artists. Every staff member has a commitment to writing. The faculty, professional authors interested in developing new talent, bring practical experience to the workshop setting.
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"The Artis zeego* really represents the first giant step in changing the paradigm for angiography labs," said Michael D. Dake, M.D., chairman, Department of Radiology, University of Virginia Health System. "Its robotic- driven technology brings interventional radiology to a different level, offering a whole new pathway for the future. It offers a multiplicity of views that were not possible to obtain before with other imaging systems."
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In the popular U.S. News and World Report rankings, the University of Virginia consistently ranks in the top handful of public universities nationwide. In the 2007 edition, the undergraduate program at U.Va. ranked
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Lift Assistive, a software service purchased by the University of Virginia, has enabled all University Web pages to be automatically converted into a format optimized for users with disabilities. Lift Assistive from UsableNet (www.usablenet.com) uses complex heuristics to remove images, streamline nav.....
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