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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) _ Michelle Obama took a break recently from the campaign trail to get her hands messy breading shrimp as she helped prepare a deep-fried dinner with the Food Network's first lady of Southern cooking, Paula Deen. The wife of Democrat Barack Obama got cozy with Deen in the kitchen during a recent taping of the Savannah celebrity cook's TV show "Paula's Party," scheduled to air on the cable network Sept. 20. Michelle Obama and Deen swapped stories about their families' favorite meals as they cooked fried shrimp and french fries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.,...

Facts are stubborn things - except when you create your own. When I was asked about the "Jenin Massacre" by a Muslim student during an event at Norfolk's Old Dominion this week, it became clear we were coming from two very different perspectives: reality vs. mythology. There was no "Jenin Massacre." Period. The only "massacre" that took place at Jenin was that of the truth. Palestinians, long masters of media manipulation, went by the hundreds to foreign media - whom Israel kept outside of the armed conflict - to claim that over 500 innocents had been slaughtered. The man at...

Work on Old Dominion University’s stalled experimental maglev train should soon be back on track now that lawsuits against its builder and the university have been settled and a $2 million federal grant needed to fix technical problems has been approved. Scientists and engineers will resume the task of trying to fix vibrations that have plagued the controversial magnetic levitation project, which has cost $14 million in public and private money and was to have begun ferrying students across campus in September 2002. The bullet-nosed vehicle sits idle, perched atop an elevated guideway, because money to fix the glitches ran...

  'Run for Freedom' at Old Dominion University Honors War Dead By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 7, 2004 — Navy and Army ROTC members, as well as students, faculty and staff at Old Dominion University and the local community are lapping the school's perimeter in Norfolk, Va., during a six-day "Run for Freedom" to honor every U.S. service member killed during the war on terror. Organized by Jason Redman, a Navy SEAL attending the university through the Navy's Seaman to Admiral Program, the event is a fundraiser to benefit families of fallen service members. Proceeds will...

NORFOLK — The Tidewater Libertarian Party reached an agreement with Old Dominion University over the distribution of political fliers, ending a lawsuit that sprung from the party’s anti-referendum campaign last fall. A federal judge had dismissed the lawsuit on a technicality, but under threat of appeal, the university agreed to change its policy, officials said. Even now, Libertarian Party member Brian Babb, who brought the suit, said he remains displeased with the school’s policy. While the school removed a restriction on the “distribution of printed materials,” Babb said he read the new policy as requiring permission before attempting to hand...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. EDGEWATER --The federal government has come through with $2 million needed to finish construction of a magnetically levitating train project at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Congress approved the funding as part of the federal transportation budget on Feb. 13 and President Bush made it official last week when he signed the federal budget. The money will allow American Maglev Technology to complete its high-speed train, which was constructed in Edgewater. The $16 million project has been on hold since November until funds were made available to complete construction of...