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Stuck in the mud

As the sun begins to rise, we hop onto a motorbike, my host brother mumbles a destination—it starts with a “K,” but all the towns sound alike—and we slowly inch onto the highway, weaving past the...


Course Superintendent Billy Weeks (left) and General
Manager Ed Ibarguen (right).
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Keepers of the Course

Course Superintendent Billy Weeks has a problem. An asbestos-filled pipe circa 1957 has “blown out” around the Duke Golf Club’s No. 4 tee box, and the irrigation system for the hole won’t work now.


The Duke Chronicle
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The Name Game

Not so great in the name department? Planning to interact with some of the fresh new faces coming to campus in the fall?


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The Advocates

Convicted murderer Michael Peterson has been waiting for a retrial since 2003—a possibility that may occur at a hearing this September. But Peterson does not wait alone.


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Forces Beyond our Control

Friday morning March 11, I woke up to the news that there had been a record 8.9 magnitude earthquake off of the northeast coast of Japan.


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Beyond the Grill

Serving up 500 omelets a day, Wallace Burrows Jr. is a familiar sight to students at The Marketplace.


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DPAC Shines a Spotlight on Durham

Setting: a theater. Rows of plush red seats cascade from three levels to an expansive stage that seems to extend the line of vision into the infinite. The ceiling plays with scale in a similar way;...


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Wisdom: George Grody

Towerview sits down and chats with George Grody, visiting associate professor of Markets & Management Studies and chairman of the National Board of Advisors at Duke Children’s Hospital.


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Dan Ariely: The Irrational Man

Dan Ariely received his first B in the second grade. When his mother asked him about the mark, he replied that he could either toil away for an A or do absolutely no homework and get a B.


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Pizza, Pizza

Our hungry staff ordered a small cheese pizza from every pizza delivery company that would take our food points. We recorded the time they took to be delivered and the total amount charged...


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Chop Shop at Revolution

Jim Anile, executive chef at Revolution, was the first person to welcome me that morning. Sitting on a chair normally reserved for hungry, hopefully patient dinner guests, he sized me up immediately.


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Life in the Corps

Cat Crumpler graduated from Duke last May. A public policy major, she now lives with four roommates in Cherry Valley, Arkansas—population: 659.