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Departments
 With the naming of its newest Rhodes Scholars, Duke now has forty on that lofty list. |
 Poverty facts and falsehoods |
 A warming globe, a capitalist Chile, a chaotic immigration policy |
 Bolstering
financial aid, recognizing
a Rhodes Scholar trio, playing
host to a book festival, watching
waistlines;
Syllabus: PPS 195S.94: Column Opinion Writing |
 The shape of the Supreme Court |
 The life cycle of a university president, the sensibility of a Southern poet |
 Tradition-steeped homecoming,
service-oriented internships,
Career Corner: salary matters;
Retrospective: musical roots; mini-profiles: a path-breaking basketball competitor, a pair of social entrepreneurs, a chronicler of problem solvers |
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"We confess our preoccupation with institutional
enhancement and limited agendas while American men and women are
sent to Iraq to kill and be killed, while thousands of Iraqi people
needlessly suffer and die, while poverty increases and preventable
diseases go untreated."
--Excerpt from a statement
of conscience written by retired Bishop Kenneth L. Carder,
a professor of the practice in the divinity school, and
signed by 95 of 164 retired and active bishops of the
United Methodist Church, repenting "complicity" in
the invasion and occupation of Iraq, on FoxNews.com
"A woman comic recently joked
that if women published an erotic magazine, it would
be called Commitment and have a fold-out picture
of a man ironing a shirt. Which is only another way
of saying that the ancient ideal of marriage as a
stable and exclusive relationship in which mutual
promises are freely made and faithfully kept, is
still enormously appealing."
--David C. Steinmetz,
Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the history of Christianity,
in the Orlando Sentinel
"I'd jump out the window if
I thought we had made no progress. What I am saying
is that the changes have been superficial, and we
are still a segregated society when it comes to schools
and the neighborhoods where we live."
--John Hope Franklin,
James B. Duke Professor emeritus of history, on the
progress made in the U.S. in advancing the rights
of African Americans, in The New York Times |
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