A lot of what I heard that morning didn’t quite register. I had emigrated from Saudi Arabia just two years before, and I was still struggling with English.

The events of 9/11 have created a national feeling of fear. Sometimes it’s invisible. Other times it is wrapped around you like a thin sweater you can forget you have on.

Several times each semester, NOVA’s Community Relations Coordinator Ken Balbuena gathers NOVA volunteers to help greet the Honor Flights of the rapidly-decreasing generation of World War II veterans.

Flow In The Dark are not your run-of-the-mill cover band.

Northern Virginia Community College once again played host to an appearance by President Barack Obama…

An eBook can be one of many different file types, ranging from Microsoft Office documents (*.doc) to electronic publications (*.epub) to a portable document format (*.pdf). You can view eBooks on any number of devices, like the iPhone, any phone running the Android Operating System and even your computer.

Colonial-era papers were not simply open in their support or opposition to a given politician or policy, but often came into being for that express purpose. As the editor of a paper in Danbury, Conn. put it two centuries ago, “A despicable impartiality I disclaim.” So no, bias is not new.

And yet…

It will be my joy this April and May to sing a piece of music with the NOVA Community Chorus that has been my very favorite since I was in sixth grade. I have been looking forward to singing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy since I found out last semester that we would be singing it this spring, but it has been a dream of mine to perform it in front of an audience since I first began singing along to it in my youth.

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door –
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; –
This it is, and nothing more.”

(Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven)

If you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or just about any other national holiday in the month of December, chances are that you’ve got a wallet stuffed with gift cards. They’re as useful as currency, but unfortunately consumers tend not to spend them as carefully as their own cash, sometimes missing out on good deals or forgetting about the gift cards entirely in all the hustle and bustle life can bring. This article is aimed to help all of you post-holiday shoppers get the most bang for your gift card buck and ring in the new year with high style.