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A Conversation with Mac McCorkle

(12/02/11 10:00am)

Opening up his office on a Monday morning, Professor Pope “Mac” McCorkle, visiting lecturer at the Sanford School of Public Policy, is met by a desk scattered with slightly crumpled, thoroughly read newspapers. As a former Democratic political consultant, he keeps up with his news even after retiring to teach two years ago. Shuffling these papers away, McCorkle, a Memphis, Tenn. native, recounts in an easygoing southern accent his fourteen years working with Democratic governors and Senate candidates both in North Carolina and across the nation, including former Governor Mike Easley and current Governor Bev Perdue.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2011/12/conversation-mac-mccorkle

What the Junk?

(09/28/11 8:00am)

On the first Friday of September, a family of three stroll into a rather unusual place. An extravagant clutter of odds and ends, the place houses dishes and fabric and lamps and, what is most interesting to two-year-old Katiya, toys. Toys line the counters on either side of an oblong room with board games stacked on one side and doll houses and plastic gadgets scattered on the other. In the middle of the room is a huge tub the length and width of a large desk filled to the rim with trinkets. This was Katiya’s first stop.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2011/09/what-junk

Forces Beyond our Control

(07/01/11 8:00am)

Friday morning March 11, I woke up to the news that there had been a record 8.9 magnitude earthquake off of the northeast coast of Japan. With three days left of Spring break, my family had planned to leave for the North Carolina mountains but instead spent the morning fixated on CNN and shaky, amateur videos of the tsunami wave, triggered by the earthquake, flooding coastal towns. My mom, who is from Izumo, Japan, was shocked and had been awake since 4 a.m. when she heard the news on the radio. For the rest of the weekend, she woke early to watch the news and checked the Internet when we returned to the hotel. She had been in no mindset to vacation, she said.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2011/07/forces-beyond-our-control