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Cosmos Lyles is not only the founder of Duke staple Cosmic Cantina. He was a triple major at Duke, and he loves to play guitar and invent useful gadgets. As his friend says, "He’s such an original thinker. He always figures out his own way of doing things.”
It became the hottest topic of The Chronicle opinion pages, the epicenter of a verbal firestorm between incensed Duke students.
Ordinarily, Upchurch comes to campus wearing white tennis shoes, white shorts and a white custom-made Nugget t-shirt, but today’s colder weather means he’s donned light blue jeans and a sweater. A steady stream of students flows into the building, anxious to escape the cool drizzle outside, and many of them—a pair of wrestlers, a girl with Beats headphones draped around her curly hair—pause to bury their hands in Nugget’s heavy, golden pelt, which smells, according to Upchurch, like “buttered toast.”
The Il Forno renovation over the summer led to the removal of the small pasta option, leaving students with only the regular-size pasta.
Eric Lorber, a former American Grand Strategy graduate fellow, defended the use of economic sanctions in statecraft at a Monday event hosted by the AGS program and moderated by Peter Feaver, professor of political science and director of the program.
However, the decision is only one part of a larger story—nine years of targeted political manipulation by Republican lawmakers bent on maximizing their electoral gains.
During the question portion, an audience member heatedly argued that Taiwan belonged exclusively to China.
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