Duke Magazine
Volume 92, No.3, May-June 2006

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On this month's cover:
Lacrosse Lessons: A much-publicized episode sparks questions about campus culture

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Duke Magazine-Feature Images A Spring of Sorry by Robert J. Bliwise
An off-campus lacrosse party and its aftermath have, in the words of President Brodhead, "brought to glaring visibility" important and long-standing issues
The Accidental Scientist by Dennis Meredith
A biologist began studying ancient Mexican pottery and ended up making genetic discoveries that could help feed the world
E Pluribus Unum? by Georgann Eubanks
Immigration policy is a complex topic that perennially brings up questions about the meaning of assimilation and the process of obtaining citizenship
Mathematics, Logic, and Lady Luck by Bridget Booher
According to a student with demonstrated poker-playing power, it's all about exercising an analytical mind, not about bringing in the money
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Europa and the Bull
Retrospective
Retrospective: Banner Rivalry
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'Love's Labor Lost,'Duke Magazine,July-August 2005
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Mini-Profiles: Jennifer Lovejoy '82, obesity researcher
Snapshot
Student Snapshot-John Finan, thinking ahead
 
Between the Lines, thoughts by Robert J. Bliwise Among the concerns reverberating from the now notorious lacrosse incident is the subculture of college athletics.
Duke Chapel and social capital
Admissions milestones, tobacco memories, lemur mysteries
Connecting with Durham teachers, cleaning up after Katrina, illuminating copyright law, sifting through molecules; Campus Observer: planting the seeds for a children's garden; Sports: So Close; Syllabus: EGR53: Computational Methods in Engineering
The path to a perfect career
Books An eloquent response to a legacy of suffering, a personal journey into Italian identity
Register Reunions roundup; Career Corner: online strategies; Retrospective: blue rivalry; mini-profiles: pushing sports beyond the limits, studying the psychology of obesity, perfecting the art of ballroom dancing

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"The argument is made that we can't trust DP World because some terrorists are known to have come through Dubai. We also know that most 9/11 terrorists came through Hamburg, but I don't see anyone arguing that we can't allow German-owned companies to operate in the United States."

--John Lynch, Roy J. Bostock Professor of marketing, on the withdrawn Dubai Ports World deal, in a letter published in The News & Observer

"As you can imagine, I'm for the H-bomb. But I'd rather not predict, I'd rather affect."

--Democratic pundit James Carville, alluding to Senator Hillary Clinton when asked who he thought would be the next Democratic presidential nominee, during a campus address, in Durham's Herald-Sun
"A whole new generation of young evangelicals are coming up that cares more about poverty than gay-marriage amendments."

--Jim Wallis, evangelical Christian activist and author of best-selling God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, during a keynote speech at the American Values Summit, held at Duke