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Check your baggage
By Sarah Ball | September 1, 2005In the cheery aisles of a resort-town jewelry shop last week, my sister Becca and I were accosted.
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Citizen of the world
By Heather Dean | August 31, 2005I am just coming to realize how small the world actually is.
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To the Class of 2009
By Miho Kubagawa | August 31, 2005There was a time when gasoline was cheaper than bottled water, when friends were neither “poked” nor “confirmed,” and when the only bell that mattered was the Victory Bell...
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Open to public inspection
By Elliott Wolf | August 30, 2005With relatively little fanfare, Duke submitted its Form 990 to the IRS and made it available to the public over the summer.
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Our unknown neighbors
By Lori Hall | August 30, 2005It was only 11 in the morning, but the sun was already scorching. I wanted to wipe the sweat off my face and swat the bugs off of me, but my hands were sticky from touching the tobacco leaves.
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Christianity Lite-transubstantialicious!
By Emin Hadziosmanovic | August 30, 2005Hope is possibly the most addictive drug in the world because most people desperately need to believe in something. They will hold onto their faith long after they’ve lost everything else.
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Welcome to Duke
By Adam Yoffie | August 29, 2005In an unprecedented sting operation that looked more Hollywood than higher education, undercover Alcohol Law Enforcement officers in conjunction with uniformed Durham police officers stormed an...
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Good of this place
By Heather Dean | August 26, 2005New graduate and professional students, welcome to Duke! You have chosen to come here for a higher degree in graduate, medical, law, business, nursing, divinity, public policy or environmental school.
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Gaining face at Duke
By James Tager | August 26, 2005It’s only the first day of school, and already I’m way behind. It’s not like I’ve been slacking off.
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Welcome to Durham
By Jimmy Soni | August 26, 2005The city of Durham occupies a curious place in modern America.
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Vicariously livin' in Laguna Beach
By Sarah Ball | July 20, 2005“[Life] is solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.”.
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Team Malaria
By Dan Englander | June 23, 2005KABULA, KENYA—As I was heading back to my hut after seeing my first African wedding, I regretted my choice in footwear. The recent rain had transformed the road into a mud pit.
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C.I. "Aid"
By Jimmy Soni | June 23, 2005Uncle Sam wants you… to learn Arabic and join the intelligence community! An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education details a new scholarship program created by Senator Bob Graham. D-Fla.
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In this debate, where is Duke?
By Adam Yoffie | June 16, 2005Speaking at a May 16 news conference in Raleigh, Professor John Hope Franklin, Duke’s famed historian, urged the state legislature to support a two-year moratorium on executions during which...
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What do you want?
By Anne Lieberman | June 16, 2005When I watched the ’80s movie Blue Velvet a few weeks ago, one scene transformed the movie for me from a sadomasochistic cream dream into thesis-worthy material.
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To do the work of Fleet Street
By Emily Rotberg | June 16, 2005London’s Fleet Street was the legendary and historic home to Britain’s major newspapers, and the bars that kept them going for more than 300 years.
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All hail the spelling champ
By Sarah Kwak | June 9, 2005The monotone voice read, “Appoggiatura,” and then pre-teen screams of excitement yelped from the audience. Less than two minutes later, a winner was crowned.
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After a year at Duke, quitting the A-Team
By Sarah Ball | June 9, 2005It’s Sunday, and my heels are sinking like golf tees into a front lawn not yet fried by the summer heat.