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	<title>Conversations with Meredith</title>
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		<title>Boots Mead, Our Valentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Campbell Mead Jr., known to most of us as Boots Mead, passed away on the eve of Valentine’s Day. I felt I knew but a sliver of Boots, a complex man: he was a teacher by vocation. If only we could multiply him by the hundreds, was the thought that used to race through my head.]]></description>
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		<title>Message to the A&amp;S Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Colleagues and Friends, I write to let you know that I have decided to step down as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science in May 2014. It has been a distinct privilege, one of the greatest in my life, to lead the College—and above all, to work with you. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Women Want?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post contains an excerpt of my remarks on the acceptance of the Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award, September 26, 2013. I am humbled to have been selected this year for the Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award, presented by the Women’s Center.  I have long admired the work of the Women’s Center. The Center is an indispensable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the Comfort Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, the College of Arts and Sciences, HKUST, and Peking University entered into a trilateral partnership. The idea was to create research and teaching collaboration among the three institutions that can be enduring. The Jefferson Global Seminars is part of that effort. I want to thank Philip Zelikow, Associate Dean of Graduate Academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late fall of 2010 as the economy was beginning to recover from a crisis that destroyed so much of the wealth of the middle class, a number of documentaries and docudramas appeared that asked probing questions about the causes of this catastrophe. One such film was Inside Job, about the culpability of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money on the Liberal Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an academic panel in Atlanta on the morning of the Virginia-Auburn bowl game, an alumnus posed a question that has been posed many times, and with increasing frequency: Given all the national emphasis on the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), what did I think was the prospect for the liberal arts at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of the Authentic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the student organizers of the Second-Year Council Dinner Series extended their gracious invitation to me to speak, I asked about the topic. I was surprised that they wanted to hear about me. Suddenly I had a chance at Andy Warhol’s dream of fifteen minutes of fame. After a moment of more serious reflection, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Shores of Tripoli: The Lessons of 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The magic of youth can transform a nightmare into a memory. Over the past weekend, the students and the University commemorated the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a dizzying array of events—speeches, conferences, exhibits, interfaith dialogues, flag runs, and candlelight vigils. Ubiquitous on the Grounds were students wearing yellow ribbons: we remember 9/11. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Sense Education—or, Rules of Thumb for Life</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In remarks this week to the College’s Class of 2015 and their parents, I spoke about the complex and venerable concept of common sense and its vital place in higher education. George Santayana, one of America’s greatest philosophers, was also one of its finest cultural observers. In an essay that discusses materialism and idealism in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership at Midlife</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/leadership-at-midlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I spoke to an orientation meeting of Arts &#038; Sciences department chairs and program directors.  Plucked from the faculty ranks, they are creatively taking on the immense and complex challenges of the College while helping to redefine what it means to be an academic leader in the twenty-first century.]]></description>
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		<title>Pitch Perfect</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/pitch-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 30, Jim Tressel, one of the most successful coaches in the history of Big Ten powerhouse Ohio State, resigned in the wake of an NCAA rules violations investigation. It was big news everywhere, but especially in Ohio, where college football couldn&#8217;t possibly be any bigger. The Tressel episode is only the most recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forever Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the TJ Society, a gathering of U.Va. alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago, returned to the Grounds for their reunion. My remarks to them reflect on how the University and its people – much like Mick Jagger, Madonna and other modern “amortals” – evolve and change over time, yet remain ageless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tommy Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The snow began falling on the Lawn in the hours before dawn of Sunday, March 27. The voices of the students, strolling in twos and threes down the arcades, drifted up to my bedroom in the pavilion and then they grew faint. The snow fell all morning over the Grounds and through the afternoon. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quest for the Golden Fleece</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I made a visit to Semester at Sea, a shipboard program which the University of Virginia sponsors. It is essentially a floating university that circumnavigates the globe, offering an experience akin to a string of study abroad programs. Nineteen students and four faculty from the University of Virginia are participating this semester, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Tackle, Chester Pierce</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last post of my blog, tracing the early days of racial integration on Grounds (“The Desegregrated Heart”), sparked a number of fascinating recollections and discussions from our alumni. One was an exchange between two Psychology majors—Tom Pettigrew ’52 and Brawner Cates ’67—about the first integrated football team to play south of the Mason-Dixon Line, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Desegregated Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the occasion marking the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., we might pause to reflect on the early days of integration at the University of Virginia, going back now six decades. It was in 1950 that Gregory Swanson, a black attorney from Danville, successfully sued to gain admission to the Law School. For years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Scientific Conspiracy of Nations”: Virginia in Berlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years after David Bruce (College ’20), one of the most distinguished diplomats of the 20th century, occupied the residence of the American embassy in Germany, another Virginian followed in his footsteps. Tammy Snyder Murphy (College ’87) is married to the current U.S. Ambassador, Philip Murphy. To celebrate the College’s budding relationship with Humboldt University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something New Under the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I shared my vision for the College with the members of the boards of the College Foundation and the Benefactors Society. Here is an excerpt from that speech, reflecting on the influences that have defined and guided the College. It is a story about the cultivation of character and virtue, the importance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Adams, Fellow Virginian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post is the text of my welcoming remarks to incoming first-year students and their parents delivered on move-in day, last Saturday. On behalf of the College of Arts &#38; Sciences, its faculty and staff, let me welcome you, on this glorious and cloudless day, to our extended family. We have gathered in Cabell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grounds and the Fury</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound was china breaking, and the fury was that of Faulkner&#8217;s housekeeper &#8212; as I discovered when reading a funny essay by 1961 College alumnus Ken Ringle that is part of a new archive about the great southern writer&#8217;s residencies at the University of Virginia. &#8220;Faulkner at Virginia: an Audio Archive&#8221; is the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bitter Valediction</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/a-bitter-valediction/</link>
		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/a-bitter-valediction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 01:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days since the death of fourth-year student Yeardley Love, the thoughts of many in our academic community have turned to loss and remembrance. To provide a perspective from the classroom, I have invited Michael Suarez to be the first guest essayist on my blog. He&#8217;s the new director of the Rare Book School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Virginia” at Forty</title>
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		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/%e2%80%9cvirginia%e2%80%9d-at-forty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“But if ever a girl looked as if she were cut out for happiness!” exclaimed an old school teacher when she caught sight of Virginia, the heroine of Ellen Glasgow’s novel of the same name, set in a southern town called Dinwiddie. In the story, Virginia wasn’t ready for happiness: the virtues she had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Passage to China</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/a-passage-to-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humen—Mouth of the Tiger—is where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. This is also where the Confucian commissioner of the Qing court, Lin Zexu, tried to turn back the barbarians—the private merchants importing opium from Britain—by dumping two and a half million pounds of opium into the sea. This story never ceases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Loco Parentis</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/in-loco-parentis/</link>
		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/in-loco-parentis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, as the Class of 2010 prepared to graduate and join the ranks of some one hundred thousand alumni of the College, they received a letter from me that adumbrated an aspect of their new life that our alumni know all too well: I asked them to consider making a gift to the College. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Like Us</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/more-like-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like so many, both inside and outside the academy, I tend to mark the passage of time by the books I read. For me, the 1980s opened with a book by Ezra Vogel, entitled “Japan as Number One,” which foreshadowed all the worries about our loss of industrial supremacy that would come to haunt that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Wilson’s University</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/mr-wilsons-university/</link>
		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/mr-wilsons-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thumbing through a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, I came across an article entitled “Mr. Wilson’s University.” It discussed a conference held at Princeton that assessed the educational legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who had spent twenty years at Princeton, the last eight (1902-1910) as its president.  In the article, John Milton Cooper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the Lawn</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/living-on-the-lawn/</link>
		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/living-on-the-lawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month my family moved into Pavilion II, the house that abuts the Rotunda on the east side (the right as you face the Rotunda). This elegant and unassuming house is a gateway that connects two very different worlds, in the most beguiling ways. From the Lawn, perhaps America’s most perfect physical expression of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia in Peking</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/virginia-in-peking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the College opened an office on the campus of Peking University.  It is located on the fifth floor of a state-of-the art building, overlooking a stately courtyard, surrounded by stunningly beautiful modern academic buildings that keep springing up, as the Chinese are wont to say, like bamboo shoots after the spring rain. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E Pluribus Unum: An Address to a Jeffersonian Class</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/address-to-a-jeffersonian-class/</link>
		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/address-to-a-jeffersonian-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I had the honor of delivering the main address at Fall Convocation, the event that honors the academic achievement of the top 20 percent of the Third Year Class. This post contains the text of my remarks. My remarks also are available on the University&#8217;s YouTube channel. I am honored to be with you, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Edward Kennedy, Virginian</title>
		<link>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/remembering-edward-kennedy-a-virginian/</link>
		<comments>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/meredithwoo/blog/remembering-edward-kennedy-a-virginian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Woo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Virginia witnessed the passing of another great Virginian—a Virginian in the sense of his association with the University—just shy of two centuries, or 183 years to be precise, after the passing of the founder of the University. Ted Kennedy’s ties to Virginia, of course, do not compare to those of Mr. Jefferson. [...]]]></description>
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