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The stakes of the game
By Ben Cohen | February 8, 2012Not long ago, I asked my mother if she could name five current or former Duke basketball players.
Not long ago, I asked my mother if she could name five current or former Duke basketball players.
Keep going, I thought. Keep going and your heart will stop pounding. Ignore the urge to bear right and find a seat in the Chapel. Don’t keep walking past the building. And don’t you dare stop at...
Growing up, every Saturday that I can remember, my family went to the local greasy spoon, where we all ordered pretty much the same thing for almost 20 years.
The MacBook Pros and iPods looked lonely on nearby tables; the poor iPod shuffles screamed of neglect. The long-awaited iPad had come out exactly one week earlier, and the customers were still...
Foursquare is the next big thing at Duke—perhaps bound for greater ubiquity than Twitter—because it’s inherently perfect for the contained college campus, infested by students who might like to...
One day—maybe sooner, but probably later—we might forget about a certain basketball game played last week. But I won't forget where I was when Duke won its fourth national championship. It’s in...
Before I ever met Susan Tifft, I had an inkling that she would be a wonderful professor. It only took about one class for me to realize that she would be the best professor I’ll ever have.
For a short while this weekend—about as long as Baylor led on Sunday—I privately wished I had a reason to root for Cornell or Butler, the NCAA Tournament’s two pseudo-Cinderellas whose fans seemed...