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Baby, you and me is FREE*

I do consistently take note of how the word FREE* sparkling in the advertisement window always has an asterisk stamped obtrusively next to it. This so-called "detail" never fails to disturb me. Our...


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Where are the moderate Muslims?

If millions of Muslims do not support terrorism actively, their silence may be doing so passively. At a time when hundreds of Islamic clerics, leaders and "activists" are openly fostering sectarian...


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Catching Up to Power

I can't remember my first experience with power, but I'm sure it was something stupid: being physically restrained by another person as I tried to throw my ice cream on the ground, or bite my...


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Early to bed, early to rise

So while some people might say moving practice from the afternoon to the early morning basically means nothing, I say, "Hey, whatever. It's not like head coach Ted Roof has to worry about...


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The Other Side of the Wall

Before we came to Vietnam, our group wondered what it would be like working in an area our country had destroyed with people who a little more than thirty years ago were our mortal enemies.


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Independence Day

I celebrate today, for it's been years in the making. It's the fresh start of a new era in Chronicle history. Today's editorial pages represent a tremendous step for student opinion.


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Persecution

The more information that surfaces the more apparent it becomes to fair-minded observers that our lacrosse team was railroaded and that three of our fellow students are being put on trial not...


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Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to school, Duke University Class of 2010! I hear good things. Some pretty fly honeyz. Gerald Henderson, I think you're the man. If you're looking for an agent after this year, I just want...


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Five days a week

Duke is at a crossroads." A friend of mine said those words to me the other day in the midst of a discussion about the upcoming semester, and I can't think of a more appropriate way to describe the...


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O, brave new world

It's been five months since March 14, 2006. Five months since a woman accused three Duke students of raping her, and five months since the ensuing controversy nearly tore our community apart.


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Convocation in brief

Students, as for you, men and women of the Class of 2010-the Double Dimes, as my internet spies tell me you have dubbed yourselves: if this day is harsh for others, it's great for you. Today you...


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Holding us to it

Dear readers, "The Tower of Campus Thought and Action." Before Coach K ruled Cameron, back when "Old Duke" still reigned supreme, those were the words that ran on the Chronicle flag. A lot...


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Forming new definitions for Duke

What defines Duke? I suppose that is a loaded, multi-faceted question. On the one hand, there are the admissions-office-brochure answers: good academics, good basketball (ok, great basketball) and...


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I heart Haterade

Class of Dimes, Wow. I sure am amped to meet you all. You're smart as heck. And you're cute, too-as yet unscathed by the Freshman 15, sleep deprivation and professorial assertions that you're a...


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Moral dichotomy

The problems exposed by this case, sexism, classism and racism are structural and therefore not solvable by task force solutions.


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Apologies necessary

As an African American, an alumnus and a member of the 2005 Duke men's lacrosse program, I am revolted by my alma mater's handling of the rape allegations directed toward members of the lacrosse team.


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Being Miss Universe

TRANG, Thailand - I am Miss Universe. Not really, of course, but to several of my Thai students I am. While I was teaching a class of seventh-graders Tuesday, all of the little boys kept...