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Volume 92, No.2, March-April 2006

ARCHIVE EDITION

On this month's cover:
Construction Boom: Form supports function as new buildings open across campus

A Spring of Sorrows by Robert J. Bliwise

The lacrosse episode has, in the words of President Brodhead, "brought to glaring visibility underlying issues that have been of concern on this campus and in this town for some time."

	Evolution is again under attack as folly-or immorality-with Intelligent Design battling Darwinism in the courts
	An ambitious building program has changed the face of the campus, offering a physical framework for new ways of living, learning, and teaching
A scholar traces an artistic movement that gave rise to both outrage and admiration, and, in the process, remade British culture
Motivated by a combination of religious calling and noblesse oblige, Francis Brooke became an indispensable aide to controversial Iraqi dissident Ahmad Chalabi

Departments

One of the academic year's most compelling speakers was George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate.

Financial aid: topping the presidential agenda

The art of admissions, the prevalence of poverty, the soul of the South

A record number of applications, a center for Islamic studies, a policy to discourage steroids, a positive assessment of aging; Campus Observer: freshmen make movie; Sports: setting the standards for golf; Syllabus: DOCST 162S Farmworkers in NC: Poverty

Campus chaos in Iraq

Assessing the man behind Tarzan, assembling voices from Duke Chapel

Grant Hill's "Something All Our Own,", Career Week's drawing power, hoops-watching's growing tradition; Career Corner: investment-banking blues; Retrospective: the lure of The Sower; mini-profiles: lobbying for women's issues, planning weddings and plotting mysteries, trekking across a continent

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"Initially as an agent, I only met corrupt politicians that made me very cynical about politics in general. Then I began serving in the White House under the Bush administration, and they restored my faith in the political system. And then the Clintons came."

--Gary Aldrich, former FBI agent and author of an exposè of the Clinton White House, in a campus address sponsored by the Duke College Republicans and Duke Conservative Union

"I'm almost convinced that dieting is totally useless."

--Cris Slentz, Duke exercise physiologist, in support of physical activity as a healthy, long-term means to weight loss, in U.S. News & World Report

"Do we want women with a family history of breast cancer deciding not to get tested out of fear of discrimination?"

--Huntington F. Willard and Susanne B. Haga, of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, on the importance of passing federal laws prohibiting discrimination by employers and health insurers based on personal genetic information, in a Washington Post op-ed