Volume 89, No.5, July-August 2003
ARCHIVE EDITION

Duke Daily Duke Duke Alumni Association Address Change Magazine Staff Advertising Feedback FAQ Site Map Back Issues Subscribe Site Search On this month's cover: LOOKING TO WIN In search of gridiron glory	From Wallace Wade to Carl Franks, Duke football has had its ups and downs. Its future depends on the three A's-academics, athletics, and the ACC In Costa Rica, scientists revel in biological drama and ecological mysteries through the Organization for Tropical Studies, now celebrating its fortieth anniversary An embedded journalist had a ringside seat to the war in Iraq A geologist and an artist share a vision for saving the natural buffer between land and sea; he works in science, she works in silk He was working as a translator in Communist China. Then he found himself center stage in a burgeoning world-health crisis Gallery Update Syllabus Mini-Profiles Snapshot Where do you find your story ideas?" That's probably the most frequent question we are asked, with the possible exception of, "When's my class note going to appear?" The facts on artifacts in Iraq, favorite foreign lit Sports talk, "Empire" strike-backs, and a food spot's farewell An ombudsman who set the standard Mike Hatch: a constant competitor Undefeated in the classroom, a new slate of leaders; Campus Observer: on weed watch in Duke Gardens Pass, kick, tackle, and yell Boy Scout experiences; Cold War experiments A new job for the Career Center, a grandfather's journal, a nurse's honors Silhouettes and shade Web site and contents © 2003 Duke University Duke Magazine, 614 Chapel Drive, Box 90572, Durham, North Carolina, 27708-0572 Fax (919) 681-1659 Include links to Duke Magazine features on your site. Duke Magazine now offers an RSS file, updated with each new online issue. Learn more about how to link to our features.	Reunions 2003 Duke Graduation 2003 "Without what now would be called affirmative action, someone like me would have ended up back in a field in Belize picking citrus." —Arlie O. Petters, professor of mathematics on leave to teach physics at M.I.T., quoted in a New York Times Q&A on his unlikely career path-Belize to New York "Rules? Pah! Rules are like wishbones: Break them and the magic begins." —Ruth Day, associate professor of psychology, who studies how audiences perceive dance, on the rules of modern dance, in The News & Observer "The question I've been pondering is whether members of the Supreme Court ought to decide cases as nine individual justices or as a group striving to reach a consensus judgment 'of the court.' The accepted view seems to be: Each justice should come to the decision he or she believes to be the 'right' legal answer in a case and then reveal his or her conclusion to the others. It's sort of like a nine-handed version of 'rock, paper, scissors'.. But is that the [only] proper conception of the judicial role? Why not view the obligation to decide faithfully as an obligation of the court as a whole?' " —Walter Dellinger, the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law and former acting Solicitor General of the United States, from an e-mail conversation with Dahlia Lithwick, the Supreme Court and legal correspondent for Slate, an MSN online magazine