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Duke's dirty laundry

In his inauguration speech, President Richard Brodhead told us why he came to Duke: “I was lured here by the spectacle of a school that has established itself in the top rank of research...


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Divestment not the answer

In a recent guest column on these pages, Fayyad Sbaihat, the national spokesperson for the Palestine Solidarity Movement, claimed that critics have avoided discussing what he sees as the principal...


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Education

The Chronicle’s editorial department continues its Election 2004 coverage today with the fifth in a weekly series of issue coverage.


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My resumé sucks

Apparently, fall has arrived: The leaves are starting to come down, the days are getting shorter, and seniors are scrambling for jobs like it’s their… uh… job.


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Yes, I'll have a Diet Sprite

When I think of everything that has made me happy in the last three and a half years, several things stand out in my mind. Family Guy on DVD. Reading Catch-22 for the fourth time.


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Changes in the way we live

Oil produced the modern world—its ways of work, warfare and recreation—and soon, we are told, the end of cheap oil will produce abrupt, wrenching changes in the way we live.


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The F-Word

The summer before freshman year, I got my housing package from Duke. Immediately, a CD-ROM stuffed into the packet caught my eye.