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(04/23/03 4:00am)
Love it or hate it, you have to admit that there's something about April. How else to explain the plethora of references the month seems to get in literature?
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Love it or hate it, you have to admit that there's something about April. How else to explain the plethora of references the month seems to get in literature?
We've gained weight.
Balance. Call it objectivity, call it fairness if you prefer, it 's every journalist's mantra. To some degree, it's an unrealistic one--even the fairest of reporters have a touch of bias that they cannot recognize, much less remove from their writing--but it's nonetheless a goal worth pursuing.
"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end."
As the Board of Trustees has grown in national scope and diversity of professional background over the years, creating another kind of diversity--equitable representation of minorities on the Board--has also become a goal, although a more elusive one.
Picture this situation: You're the coach of a football team with a 23-game losing streak, leading by three points in the first quarter, with the ball on your opponent's 43-yard line. Only problem is, it's fourth down, and you've still got a yard to go for a first down. Do you go for it, or do you settle for punting the ball out of bounds around the opponent's 10-yard line?
TowerView identifies itself as a news perspective magazine. That means our aim is to present a wide variety of informed views on current trends or events--a goal which, for me at least, is ultimately rooted in a belief that the free exchange of information, through a sort of natural selection of ideas, will ultimately lead to the triumph of the best or truest ideas.
You probably know it by heart. Chances are you've recited the words hundreds, if not thousands, of times over your lifetime:
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Recruiting top-quality football players to join a team with a 23-game losing streak is never easy. But with the new Yoh Football Center nearing completion, coach Carl Franks hopes that task will become a little less onerous.
The Durham County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to decrease the prescribed density of houses and apartments in a northern Durham neighborhood. But most commissioners said they thought the density should be made lower still.
The state Supreme Court is scheduled to hear opening arguments today in a case that will decide whether North Carolina will have to redraw its legislative district lines--and how long the political process leading up to the elections this fall will continue to be delayed.
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments today in a case that will decide whether North Carolina will have 12 or 13 congressional districts for the next decade.
This is the second story in a four-part series on issues related to crime in Durham.
The Durham County Board of Commissioners and the Durham Area Board of Mental Health met Monday to discuss the future of mental health care in the county and whether to hire a new director of mental health.
One of Durham's low-income areas received an economic boost Wednesday, as a local manufacturer announced that it has purchased an abandoned factory that it plans to renovate into a new "East Village Corporate Center."
The developer for the American Tobacco project has found a likely third tenant, moving forward the project to revitalize downtown by transforming deserted cigarette warehouses into office and commercial space.
Despite student objections, the board of trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill agreed Thursday to raise tuition by $400 beginning next fall in an effort to preserve the quality of the school's faculty.
The Durham County Board of Commissioners approved a $2 million incentive package Monday for a local company if it opens a new plant in the county.
As a planned regional rail system to connect the Triangle moves forward, a decline in the tax revenues funding the project is forcing officials to make hard decisions about what the system should look like.