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It is apparent that British author Ian McEwan set lofty goals in piecing together his newest novel, Sweet Tooth—goals that he has accomplished in novels past, but lofty ones nonetheless.
With the general election in the rearview mirror and a fiscal cliff on the horizon, federal and state governments will likely make some spending cuts that could affect Duke.
After a primary and general election campaign that lasted more than a year, President Barack Obama won a second term more handily than some media and both presidential campaigns suggested in the week leading up to Election Day.
The Chronicle, in partnership with the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology, conducted an IRB-approved poll of 3,200 undergraduates via email from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2. The poll yielded 1,155 responses, an approximate response rate of 36 percent. The Chronicle would like to thank Sunshine Hillygus, associate professor of political science, and Scott Clifford, a survey associate at the Initiative, along with David Jamieson-Drake and Jiali Luo with the Office of Institutional Research. The listed statistics are approximations.
Four years ago, all eyes were on North Carolina as polls and journalists almost unanimously agreed that voters in the Tar Heel state race were down to a fifty-fifty split between then-freshman Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. Now, not everyone agrees that North Carolina is the battleground it once was.
Many Duke students are ineligible to vote in the upcoming election, but that does not stop them from engaging in U.S. politics.
Duke’s “Days of the Dead” photography exhibit communicates an un-American way of interacting with the deceased.
A federal judge has ruled that a famous lacrosse scandal author, KC Johnson, must turn over his records of communication and testify in an ongoing civil lawsuit led by former lacrosse players and their families against Duke.
The North Carolina early voting period begins today, and Durham County residents are able to vote on campus.
There are three main groups of people who will listen to the new Flying Lotus album Until the Quiet Comes. There are those who have listened to his previous work and been pleased. These people liked his previous two albums for their thick textures, dense arrangements of an almost uncountable number of noises simultaneously and undying hip hop electrojazz energy. There are those who have listened to his previous work and been displeased. These people might have been turned off by the chaos and noisiness of 2010’s Cosmogramma and 2008’s Los Angeles, FlyLo’s sophomore album. “Robot music,” they might have called it. And then there are those who are approaching Steven Ellis, the man behind the stage name inspired by an aquatic flower, for the very first time.
As certain pharmaceuticals are becoming increasingly scarce, hospitals should create fair and consistent policies to decide how to apportion limited drugs to patients, said Dr. Philip Rosoff, director of Duke Hospital’s clinical ethics program.
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The University is using legal measures in an attempt to acquire communication records used in a book about the 2006 lacrosse rape case.
As the global population continues to increase rapidly, the earth and its resources will struggle to sustain the entirety of the human race, said John Seager, the president and CEO of Population Connection. The nonprofit seeks to educate people about global population issues and advocate for family planning and the empowerment of women. The Chronicle’s Jack Mercola spoke with Seager about population growth and resource distribution as well as America’s role in helping to solve these issues.
All people are entitled to food, according to members of a Durham bakery, Bread Uprising.
The U.S. embassy staff in Tunis, Tunisia evacuated Sept. 14 amidst deadly riots sweeping that nation and the Middle East, but recent graduate Dania Toth stayed in Sousse, Tunisia. Toth, Trinity ’12, moved there days after graduation to serve as coordinator at the American Corner Sousse, an educational and cultural center in Tunisia hosted by AMIDEAST, one of the Middle East’s biggest American nonprofits, and funded by the State Department. The Chronicle’s Jack Mercola and Danielle Muoio asked her about her experience with recent turmoil and rioting in the region.
What Duke students know or think they know about crack cocaine is probably false.
CHARLOTTE—In his acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination, President Barack Obama framed the 2012 election as one notably different from those in recent history.
CHARLOTTE — Although the Democratic Party scrambled to reintroduce the word “God” into its platform, the party’s efforts dealing with poverty and health have proven attractive to some religious voters, particularly Catholics.
CHARLOTTE — Although they often play second fiddle in the media, the second family captivated the crowd at the Democratic National Convention Thursday.
