CHARLOTTESVILLE — Shortly after finishing the 2010 season at 4-8, Virginia football Coach Mike London told Jon Oliver, the school’s executive associate athletic director, that he felt his players needed to be tougher, more accountable and more disciplined. “In my mind, listening to [London], I felt like it was coming down to a lot of what was happening in the weight room,” Oliver said. Read full article > >

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Virginia football learns the price of strength

The problem with picking your favorite dishes of the year — at least for me — is that my mind tends to recall, say, only the most recent meals, which handicaps the lunches and dinners I sampled earlier in the year. Or even last month. Fortunately, the camera phone helps supplement what my brain can’t remember. (Or perhaps it helps create a brain with a faulty memory?) In reviewing my photos from the past 356 days, I discovered one thing: Read full article > >

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The Food section’s best and worst dishes of 2011

Revelations, part of the Assassin’s Creed series, is set in 16th-century Constantinople and within the mind of a present-day character.

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How having a baby can cause some people to ‘lose their mind’

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The video for Lady Gaga ’s “Marry the Night” has hit the Web. The 13-minute epic opens on Mama Monster in some sort of hospital, bruised up and declaring, “I’m gonna be star. You know why? (Pause for dramatic crying.) Because I have nothing to lose.” Cut to Gaga as a ballerina, then as a French speaker in a flat getting a call from a “director” who delivers some unspecified bad news. The singer loses her mind — in an artsy way — tearing the apartment apart, covering her naked (but censored) body in cereal and dying her hair in the bathtub. Read full article > >

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Marry the Night’ video debuts

Today is the eleventh day. Of the eleventh month. Of the eleventh year. 11/11/11. You could read this piece at 11:11 — a.m. or p.m. — and your mind could be sandblasted with the amazingness of it all, with the unique, symmetrical way that the universe seems to have fallen in line. It’s probably time to find lots of meaning in randomness, to call up the experts and ask what it all signi— Read full article > >

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11/11/11 is a divine date for many interested in numbers

The highlight of Jon Huntsman’s flagging presidential bid : his three older daughters, Mary Anne , Abby and Liddy , who’ve become breakout stars of the mind-numbing GOP primary trail. They’re pretty and photogenic — which scored them a family spread in Vogue and thousands of Twitter fans . But the “Jon2012 Girls” are pretty funny, too, as evidenced by their new parody of Herman Cain’s viral campaign video. Read full article > >

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Jon Huntsman daughters on the campaign trail and YouTube

The stunning display of vitriol at a Bronx courthouse by hundreds of off-duty officers raised concerns about the mind-set of the force.

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“I’ll make up my mind on that later.”

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Biden Doesn’t Rule Out 2016 Run

“I’ll make up my mind on that later.”

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Biden Doesn’t Rule Out 2016 Run

When Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) announced this summer that he will sponsor a same-sex marriage bill in next year’s legislative session, he heard from Edwin F. O’Brien, the archbishop of Baltimore, who pleaded with the governor to change his mind. “Maryland is not New York,” O’Brien wrote . He urged O’Malley not to allow his position on “the definition of marriage to be determined by mere political expediency.” O’Brien is correct: Maryland is not New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) was widely hailed for shepherding a bill legalizing same-sex marriage through his state’s divided legislature in June. Read full article > >

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Why the Democrats learned to love same-sex marriage

Every couple of months last year, Battlefield running back J.J. Johnson and his father would drive to the high school being built near their home to check on its progress. J.J. intended to enroll at new Patriot High , in Nokesville, this fall. But during his Battlefield freshman football team’s undefeated season — and the varsity’s march to the Virginia AAA Division 6 title — the younger Johnson decided he would return to Battlefield. Why leave a winner? In May, however, Johnson changed his mind yet again. As he heard about more of his freshman teammates enrolling at Patriot, he decided, once and for all, to become a Pioneer and help start a new high school program in western Prince William County. Read full article > >

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With Patriot High opening its doors this fall, football players at Battlefield and Brentsville faced a difficult decision

Relaxing in a chair after practice, Danny Hultzen wore a slight smile. The University of Virginia star pitcher no longer had to worry about rolling out of bed in time for early-morning classes. He did not have to cram for any exams. There were no assignments coming due. “It’s awesome,” Hultzen said on a recent weekday afternoon a few days after semester exams had finished. “All that stress of schoolwork and staying up to study for tests and writing is gone. It’s nice that you can really set your mind to playing baseball.” Read full article > >

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There’s no place like home — especially when home is sparkling clean, dust-free and lightly scented with lemon cleanser. June Cleaver and her ilk made it look easy, but let’s be honest: There are some days when you’re multi-tasked to the max, and the last thing on your mind is whether the bathroom fixtures are gleaming. “Housecleaning is one of our regularly requested services, and it’s a very personal service,” says Angie Hicks, founder of consumer-service review site Angie’s List ( angieslist.com ). “You’re inviting someone into your house, and so it’s really important to get to know them . . . especially since your definition of neat and tidy might be different from theirs.” Read full article > >

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Deal Hunter: How to save money on housecleaning

There’s no place like home — especially when home is sparkling clean, dust-free and lightly scented with lemon cleanser. June Cleaver and her ilk made it look easy, but let’s be honest: There are some days when you’re multi-tasked to the max, and the last thing on your mind is whether the bathroom fixtures are gleaming. “Housecleaning is one of our regularly requested services, and it’s a very personal service,” says Angie Hicks, founder of consumer-service review site Angie’s List ( angieslist.com ). “You’re inviting someone into your house, and so it’s really important to get to know them . . . especially since your definition of neat and tidy might be different from theirs.” Read full article > >

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