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White tenting numbers dip for Terps

Though some students took part in the mad dash to Brooks Field in Wallace Wade Stadium to sign up for white tenting Friday night, Krzyzewskiville is still far from full.


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Admins ready response to Sens.

Prompted by the strong performance of many university endowments across the nation, Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter last Thursday to 136 colleges asking for...


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Downloads unabated, students say

Many Duke students say they have found it difficult to change their downloading practices completely, even after receiving warnings and letters of cease and desist from the entertainment industry,...


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Friends, alums fete Price's 50

"A Jubilee for Reynolds Price" continued Friday and Saturday with distinguished panels, a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and a dramatic reading of "Private Contentment," a...


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Black to enter race for D.A.

Freda Black, a former colleague of Mike Nifong, said she intends to run for the office previously held by the former Durham district attorney in this year's upcoming election.


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Toni Morrison speech culminates jubilee

In his five decades at Duke, Reynolds Price has made many friends in high places. But few loom larger than Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, who addressed a packed crowd in the Chapel...