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Can a "commonsense, concise, and useful" theory predict the shape of things that are and the shape of things to come? |
The Duke University String School, led by Dorothy Kitchen, has been introducing
young people to the joys of the violin, viola, cello, and bass for four decades |
Caught in a moral crisis, a Marine Corps prosecutor drops a high-profile terrorism case-
and finds himself a symbol of the ambiguities of the war on terror |
Duke football is coming off one of its worst seasons ever, but the players are pumped,
determined that this year will be different and confident that, ultimately, they can't lose |
Departments
 Students in my magazine-journalism seminar sometimes struggle to figure out the elements of a good story. |
 Get engaged: the president's charge to freshmen |
 Reporting and new media, lacrosse and the justice system |
 A Central Campus designer,
a dean of undergraduate education,
a Romania-rich exhibit;
Q&A: gauging the social costs of alcohol;
Campus Observer: tobacco-free at the medical center;
Syllabus: The Love Commandment |
 Reading as a social signifier, lacrosse as a rallying cry |
 A distinguished Duke couple,
a send-off for new students;
Career Corner: career shifting;
Retrospective: pushing for integration;
mini-profiles: writing works inspired by history,
hitting the road with the circus,
shaping the architecture of information |
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"It's very disquieting that in the middle of a war against terror, you find your government acting more like the people your government is fighting against—
secretive, undemocratic.""
—Steven Hensen, a Duke Libraries archivist who has testified before a Congressional subcommittee considering overturning Executive Order 13233, which keeps the president's papers private beyond the standard twelve years out of office, in Raleigh's News & Observer
"For them to be intoxicated, it just doesn't make much difference, because they don't do anything."
—Alex Roland Ph.D. '74, professor of history and frequent NASA critic, on allegations that astronauts were drunk on space-shuttle flights, assuming it was post-launch, in the Toronto Star
"Faith, which the president has, reduces the complexities of history into a simple explanation, in the same way that Genesis reduces the wondrous product of billions of years of evolution into seven simple days. That is not leadership."
—James E. Coleman Jr., professor of the practice of law, on George W. Bush, in a letter to the editor published in The New York Times |
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