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A pioneering choice for the medical school,
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a center for criminal justice;
Sports: big hopes for freshman hoopsters;
Q&A: protesting presidential secrecy;
Campus Observer: getting the picture-of 1,700 students
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 Workplace pressures and women's choices; environmental interests and eating imperatives |
 Recognizing remarkable service,
reviving a tradition of competition;
Career Corner: the résumé as marketing tool; Retrospective: mistaken architectural identities;
mini-profiles: a mother's gift,
a tale of tolerance,
an online innovator |
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"With the virtues of an open web all around us, we have proceeded to build an endless set of walled gardens, something that looks a lot like Compuserv or Minitel and very little like a world wide web for science."
—James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds professor of law, on most online scientific journals charging fees for access, even to the results of publicly funded studies, in the Financial Times
"They descended like the flying monkeys out of The Wizard of Oz, took everything up to the dorm, and all of a sudden, I'm sitting here by myself."
—Ben Brigeman, the father of a Duke freshman, on the assistance provided by First-Year Advisory Council members on move-in day in August, in Durham's Herald-Sun
"The level of discourse reached such a nadir by August that we could not allow the boards to continue without careful screening of all comments on a regular basis."
—Junior David Graham, editor of The Chronicle, in an editor's note explaining the decision to temporarily remove message boards from the newspaper's website as a result of "racist, repulsive, and unbecoming" comments posted, especially on the lacrosse threads |
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