I remember one time during my senior year in high school when I was playing pickup basketball with some friends. I pulled off a fancy cross-over move and made a layup to win the game. During the...
301 FLOWERS - When I arrived at the U.S. Airways terminal at RDU Wednesday morning, I watched as my fellow Chronicle reporter swiped his credit card into the self check-in: "Flight 1770 to Boston...
More than 800 students thus far have pledged their signatures to "The Real Social Disaster," an appeal authored by senior Stephen Miller, executive director of the Duke Conservative Union.
Last week The New York Times gave readers a taste of the ridiculous extremes to which Cupid has subjected us all. An article on luxury gift-giving examined the price and production of a standard...
In our current world of suicide bombers and nuclear warheads, there is one word that scares me more than any other: fundamentalism.
It seems Robert Palmer had the right idea. And I don't mean about the red lipstick and cardboard cutouts of guitars.
In April 2006, the month in which the Duke lacrosse story seemed to be spiraling out of control and consuming the resources of the American media, 76 U.S. military servicemen were killed in Iraq.
Last week, Durham resident Beth Brewer did a courageous thing: She asked the Durham Superior Court to remove Mike Nifong as district attorney in a sworn affidavit. I wish I had thought of that.
After Duke's third game of the season, a win over UNC-Greensboro, head coach Mike Krzyzewski was asked about his team's inconsistency on the offensive end, specifically its occasional inability to...
What's wrong with campus culture? I don't find social outlets-dry, wet or damp-limited or hard to find on campus. If I want to go to a big "party" where dozens of strangers get drunk on cheap beer,...
I started planning for Valentine's Day a little early this year. I figured that at the rate I usually work, in order to have a date by the 14th I would need to start my hunt by late October.
As a Republican I watched in horror as our party dedicated to limiting government did just the opposite for six years while controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress. Yet,...
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth, preserved from the first century A.D., bearing what many claim is the ghostly image of Jesus of Nazareth.
This weekend we were sitting at home in our pajamas, gorging on potatoes and cheese, and lamenting the lack of Bollywood romance in our lives. Why can't my one true love follow me across three...
Does Whole Foods pay these people? Honestly, where do they all come from, individuals dressed in that oddly attractive hybrid of urban sophisticate and hippie attire, pleasant and really...
As you may have already suspected, the authorities here at Duke do not really want you to have a lot of fun. Recently, students have witnessed a massive effort by the administration to cut down on...
Oooohhaaargh. That's my moan of despair. Dear readers, I am coming off one of the most tragic weeks in athletics that I have ever had the misfortune to experience.
All other things held constant, if you combined muddy Sponge Bob Squarepants gloves (child-size medium), crunched-to-dust M&M Chips Ahoy Mini cookies, urine puddles, toilet seat liners and 7,802...
Despite the media hype surrounding Barack Obama's presidential bid and John Edwards' recent frankness about his desire to raise taxes and implement a national health-care system-as well as Joe...
I love words. Words are the basis of communication and without them, I could not enjoy my so-called life as a writer or a logophile. To be a writer means to be able to let others know they aren't...
