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A win and a loss for No. 1 teams over weekend

(01/21/03 5:00am)

CHAPEL HILL -- With the game tied 61-61 and the game clock reading 0.0, referee Sally Bell blew her whistle, calling a foul on Wynter Whitley and sending North Carolina's Chrystal Baptist to the line to shoot two free throws- either of which could have ended Duke's 28-game ACC winning streak, 16-game overall winning streak and the Blue Devils' top ranking.




The New Face of Segregation

(12/15/02 5:00am)

At 3:45 the buses roll in. From Club Boulevard, from Powe, from all over Durham, they move down Gregson and Green and Watts streets, at each block stopping to loose their cargo of white children. Each child, stepping from the bus, shoulders his or her L.L. Bean backpack and walks past a BMW and into one of the comfortable houses that line Trinity Park's leaf-dappled streets. The buses roll on through the center of the neighborhood, lighter with fewer passengers, now passing George Watts, the brick-faced elementary school, where black and Hispanic children are gathered in after-school programs. Less than one in 24 of the children at Watts is white, and for more than nine out of 10, their families have sufficiently low income that they qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. Last year, less than 36 percent of the current fourth graders in the building tested at grade level in math. They scored only slightly better in reading.