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The poems of Sharon Olds are almost always highly personal, first-person and memoir-like. And although the author of The Gold Cell and The Wellspring deals with everything from death and sex, to watching one's children grow up, Olds balks at discussing her creations outside of the poetic context.
Bob Shacochis is a novelist and journalist who previously won the National Book Award for his work Easy in the Islands. His latest book, The Immaculate Invasion, details the 1994 invasion of Haiti by American special forces. To research the work, Shacochis spent a great deal of time in Haiti himself. Features editor Jason Wagner spoke to him by phone in Baltimore.
The relationship between science and native cultures has not always been a cordial one. The record of trampling on American Indians' spiritual culture-in the name of science-still haunts much of academia, from biology to anthropology.
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' classic family tragedy about a debilitatingly shy young girl who escapes into a world of glass figurines, opens Monday at Branson Theater. Produced by the Brown and Green Theater, the play is directed by Allison Stockman, a professional director from New York City.
Where I come from, when people start talking about things like spirit and grace and self-forgiveness, we generally say, "Uh-huh," and then politely ask them to get off our porch.
Far too jones, the Raleigh-based band currently getting radio air time across the country with the hits "Falling Back Down" and "As Good as You" is returning home for a performance at the Cat's Cradle this Friday. Since they're not yet too big to ignore us, vocalist Chris Spruill sat down for a phone interview Wednesday.
Trinity junior Amit Shah served as a Duke Student Government legislator on the facilities and athletics committee his freshman year, but after he lost the race for facilities and athletics vice president, he began to pursue other interests.
Currently a member of Duke Student Government's Facilities and Athletics Committee, Trinity freshman Jimmy Carter has already made his mark on the group through several projects. His current project is also one of his campaign issues-building bus shelters at the main East and West campus bus stops.
Trinity freshman Sara Elrod has been active on Duke Student Government's Facilities and Athletics Committee and Gilbert-Addoms House Council this year.
Trinity junior Bob Koch sees his year-long break from Duke Student Government as an advantage in his campaign for vice president for facilities and athletics.
Depending on the year you were born, the list of FLOTUS-otherwise known as First Ladies of the United States-one remembers may be long or short. While there are certain stand-outs among this distinguished group-Jacqueline Kennedy, and Nancy Reagan come to mind-there is one that outshines them all.
"We drove up to the circle and took off and ran into the [Allen] Building," said Bertie Howard, Trinity '76, who is now executive director of the University's Center for Africa and the Media. "A few people were already at work. We escorted them out and bolted the doors."
Inside a locked gym at the North Carolina College for Negroes-now North Carolina Central University-two teams were about to take to the floor for an historic basketball game. The year was 1944, the place was Durham and an all-black NCCN team was facing the all-white intramural squad from Duke's School of Medicine. It was the first time players on either team had played against members of another race and participants say the mood was tense.
In a basketball game, the lines between opposing teams are clearly drawn: home versus away, offense versus defense, shirts versus skins, one team versus another. Less than four decades ago, the lines in Southern basketball were also based on another divide: the color of a player's skin.
When Anna Deveare Smith takes to the stage of Page Auditorium Monday for a "performance/lecture" as part of the celebrations of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, she intends to do more than present; she will also listen
As the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton begins in the U.S. Senate chamber today, the nation will be observing a governmental process that has not been exercised in 131 years.
It is common in the film industry to offer audiences behind-the-scenes glimpses into almost every aspect of production and development but only rarely do we get an unadulterated, unedited glimpse of any other work of art in the making.
If the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, then the Beatles have always had more than their fair share of sincere praise. From random drunks requesting "Hey Jude" at the corner karaoke bar to the hundreds of artists who have recorded covers of their famous hits, the boys from Liverpool have been copied again and again.
Almost five years ago today, the legislation that created the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed, ending an arduous three-year battle to push the legislation through the United States Congress.
Better put a family room in the ivory tower; higher education is growing a mom-and-pop contingent.
