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Five faculty members honored as 2004 Bass Chairs
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Five faculty members honored as 2004 Bass Chairs
Although the members of the Board of Trustees kept busy this past weekend with photos on the Chapel Quadrangle and other celebrations for the grand finale to the Campaign for Duke, they still managed to tackle a full agenda.
George Soros has done it all--from surviving Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary, where he was born, to living under communism, to establishing a network of philanthropic organizations.
Politically inclined billionaire investor George Soros will make his first visit to the University today with a 5 p.m. lecture in Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center.
Legal scholar to distribute settlement funds
When 21-year old Natasha Hanshaw visits the Amazon.com site or stops by the essay collection section of Barnes and Noble bookstore, she will see her new book staring right back at her.
Duke professors are weighing in with a variety of explanations and potential solutions to the struggling peacekeeping effort in Iraq, but all agree on one aspect: the situation is bleak and does not appear to be improving.
While the military campaign in Iraq continues, leaders around the world are asking for specifics on how the United States and Britain intend to rebuild Iraq.
As the military campaign continues in Iraq, the University brought out four leading scholars to discuss a variety of issues associated with the war, including its legitimacy, the failure of multilateralism and the costs of the campaign.
In a throwback to the Vietnam War era, when anti-war protests and political debate were ever-present, the intensifying war in Iraq has become the major topic of discussion and activity on campus.
President George W. Bush will give his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, and as he does his main task will be to convince the nation of the need to invade Iraq, University professors said this week.
The 200 students who attended a speech by former Sudanese slave Francis Bok in late November went home with an assignment--investigate where their own money is invested and find out whether their financial institutions are investing in organizations that promote unethical activity.
As some University students begin a campaign for divestment from Sudan due to humanitarian abuses such as slavery, the north-central African nation is struggling to end a 19-year civil war that propagates the country's use of slave labor.
Grade inflation may be less dramatic than recent reports have shown, and its causes are too complex to be easily remedied by any one policy, Provost Peter Lange will report to the Board of Trustees' Academic Affairs committee Friday.
Francis Bok stood nervously at the side of the room, hands clasped behind his back and eyes surveying the nearly 200 students in the crowd. When he stood behind the podium to tell his story, however, he began to relax.
A group of experts clashed Tuesday night at a panel discussion over the best way to resolve the bellicose tension between the United States and Iraq.
Durham committee approves laundry facility rezoning request
In an inaugural series of lecture events for the sophomore class, professors from various departments expressed widely divergent opinions on the route that President George W. Bush's administration should take in dealing with Iraq and its leader, Saddam Hussein.
Alex Roland and Richard Kohn have been friends and colleagues for years. The two are military historians, experts in an area of history that, though small, is unique enough to be a significant subfield.
Despite a University request that professors try to incorporate the Sept. 11 anniversary into their Wednesday classes, the extent to which the commemoration became a topic of class discussion varied greatly.