Schrodinger's Grad
(04/27/09 7:00am)
A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of going out to lunch with a PWILD friend, a 2006 alum who is now returning to school to get a bachelor's in an entirely different subject.
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A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of going out to lunch with a PWILD friend, a 2006 alum who is now returning to school to get a bachelor's in an entirely different subject.
Over the next hour, Iglesias and his roommate, junior Andrew First, mention the tea several times, commenting on the mechanics of their various steeping systems or the merits of red versus green tea. And soon it's clear that these two Web mavens, members of Duke's small but skilled community of Internet programmers and entrepreneurs, don't just drink tea, just like they don't just read e-mails or check NYTimes.com for headlines. They discuss tea, tinker with it, see how they can improve it. And while the next pot is brewing, Iglesias and First are doing the same to the Web.
A gaunt, naked man rises out of the sea. A soldier adroitly waltzes across a Beirut street in a haze of gunfire. A carefree cadre of troops inches toward Lebanon in a tank against a backdrop of Israeli rock music. These are the surreal, haunting, sometimes bracingly violent scenes that comprise Waltz With Bashir, a stunning and provocative film by Israeli director Ari Folman. Waltz With Bashir is, on the surface, a film about the longstanding conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors. But fundamentally, it explores the malleability of memory and the blurred lines between reality, memory, dream and hallucination.
I really like Thai food. But until January 19, sardined into a small Thai restaurant off Dupont Circle, I never had reason to cheer.
You might think that after winning the prestigious Marshall Scholarship last fall, senior Sally Liu would want to coast through the rest of the year. And maybe she is-if you consider pole-vaulting for varsity track and finishing up a research manuscript "coasting."
When it comes to Durham dining, it's difficult to complain much about the status quo. That said, the arrival of Revolution could shake up an already nationally recognized establishment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office early Tuesday afternoon, becoming the nation's 44th president and its first black president.
According to Google Maps, driving from Darwin, Australia, where Baz Luhrmann's latest work is set, to Sydney takes one day and 23 hours. Coincidentally, that is about how long Australia feels.
The Latin American Film Festival turns 22 this Sunday, but don't expect a quarter-life crisis. With nearly 30 feature films and documentaries showing at nine venues across the Triangle and Piedmont Triad, the festival is coming into its own-and still striving to improve.
Trick-less Treats. The costumed frivolity of Halloween lasts just one night, but the variety of pumpkin
A feel-good story about racism, domestic abuse and unintentional matricide, The Secret Life of Bees depicts a rich family drama in the last days of Jim Crow. In this adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel, Dakota Fanning plays Lily Owens, a 14-year-old who lives with a horrifying burden-at age four, she accidentally shot and killed her mother while trying to save her from T. Ray, Lily's abusive father (an un-Wimbledon-esque Paul Bettany). After running away with her nanny Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), Lily finds family and redemption with the refined but free-spirited Boatwright sisters on their honey farm.
Senior Babylonia Aivaz was moving a television out of the Duke Coffeehouse two weeks ago when the load slipped, bashing her head and leaving her with a nasty black eye.
"A piano's all I got/and I know that ain't a lot," Ben Folds laments wryly in "The Frown Song," the third song on Way to Normal, his first release in three years.
So you're sort of going on a Birthright trip?" "Um, sort of," I said. "Plus we're going to Poland."
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The things I love about Turkey generally make no sense to me. Take the baked potato vendors, for example: Each stall offers the same bizarre toppings of sausage, peas, corn, cabbage and mayonnaise.
It was Sunday afternoon in Alanya, Turkey, and something was going on.
ALANYA, Turkey - I've taken to waking up early here, much to my regret. Nights in Alanya aren't as peaceful as they once were, and I could use the extra sleep.
Local Planned Parenthood branches celebrated the first month of over-the-counter emergency contraception distribution Wednesday with a free giveaway of the pill.
Finding the right career is a near-universal struggle for recent college graduates.
Durham District Attorney candidate Steve Monks asserted his electability at a press conference Friday, but also committed to withdraw from the race if it would help defeat incumbent Mike Nifong.