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immaculate misconception
I ordinarily hate to talk politics, but there's something very out of the ordinary going on right now. These past few weeks, I've felt an overwhelming rush of hope. Hope for a better tomorrow. Hope for a new dawn. Hope for another nebulous adjective and synonym for the future.
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suburban subversive
The average Duke student has many reasons to feel poorly disposed towards his Tar Heel neighbors: their uncomfortably competitive basketball team, their lackluster shade of blue and the fact that Tyler Hansbrough killed a man in cold blood in 2004 (no, I can't prove that).
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guard your ears!
Congratulations! You are lucky enough to have the honor of reading my very first column for The Chronicle. You'll probably be telling your kids about this someday. You may be asking yourself why it is that I am only now gracing these pages with my presence.