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What price that Ph.D?
A university and the people to whom it grants honorary degrees typify a sort of glory-seeking symbiosis, although which party is the rhinoceros and which the oxpecker that feasts on its ticks is always open for discussion.
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Ready for Round 2
For most of us, Wednesday marked the official start of basketball season. Sure, there might have been games earlier this year, but those were just warm-ups. Along Tobacco Road, the first UNC and Duke meeting of the season means it’s time for both players and fans to get serious. Regardless of the teams’ records each season, the conversations a...
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Where does your money go?
When Barbara Ehrenrich wrote “Welcome to Cancerland” for Harper’s Magazine in 2001, she wasn’t the first to sound a warning blast about how breast cancer charities spend their money, but it was a shot that rang around the Internet and ricocheted into the middle of last week’s battle between the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood.
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We are too distracted
There’s nothing to contribute to a little road rage like having the driver in front of you speed up and slow down as he or she texts, talks, eats, examines a GPS, shaves or puts on makeup. Not only is it irritating because it’s erratic and dangerous, but it sends the message that whatever this person is doing is much more important than the saf...
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Super Sunday offers us respite
Eight years ago, the Carolina Summer Reading Program at UNC Chapel Hill chose “Absolutely American” as the book to be read by all incoming students. It’s a wonderful title for a work, by David Lipsky, about four years at West Point, and the experiences of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. It’s also the absolutely perfect description of ...
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Week's end
What’s the best-known symbol of Durham?
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What's happening with the Democrats?
The flight of longtime Democratic political figures from public service is turning into a bit of a stampede.
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Open-ended opportunity
It’s hard to know how long freshly appointed interim District Attorney Leon Stanback will occupy the sixth floor of the Durham County Courthouse.
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Preserving black history
History really isn’t about the heroes, although those are the stories people most love to tell. Take Henry “Box” Brown, who had himself shipped from slave-owning Virginia to abolitionists in Philadelphia in 1849. Brown survived the journey, although he had to burn his hand with sulfuric acid to get away, and nearly suffocated and died on the tr...
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Schools for Samantha
In the conversation about whether the proposed Research Triangle High School’s charter application should be fast-tracked, it’s useful to think about Samantha Garvey.
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HS Guest Columnists
When is a tuition increase justified?
Last week, President Barack Obama spoke to a University of Michigan audience about tuition increases at public universities. He said, “We should steer federal campus-based aid to those colleges that keep tuition affordable, provide good value, serve their students well.”
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DPI’s annual study leaves much to be desired
For years, North Carolina has had a reprehensible school-to-prison pipeline, which is a system of laws, policies and practices that pushes students — disproportionately male students, students of color and students with disabilities — out of schools and into the juvenile and criminal systems. For example, during the 2007-08 school year alone, 31...
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Defending the ‘American dream’
Every election, we’re told, is important. Critical, even. But it’s more than the usual hyperbole this time.
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Celebrating North Carolina’s history of embracing educationa...
I often sense an adversarial tone when listening to discussions about the different educational options available to our children. However, we often fail to recognize that whether a child attends a traditional public school, public charter school, private school or is homeschooled, each learning environment enjoys a symbiotic relationship with t...
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Finding ways to put North Carolinians back to work
We have so many great things going for us in the Triangle: our workers are the best in the world, schools such as Duke and North Carolina Central University are respected around the globe, and our business climate for entrepreneurs and innovators cannot be beat.
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Preserving history: Buildings and neighborhoods tell the sto...
Major projects and activities such as the Historic Parrish Street, the Hayti Heritage Center and the Fayetteville Street Historic Corridor highlight the rich African-American history in Durham.
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Remembering Mary Semans’ political debut
Harold Moore, a high school classmate and photographer extraordinaire for the paper for at least 40 years, sent me several dozen wonderful photos a few years ago of my dad, Mayor E. J. “Mutt” Evans, that had run in the paper. It included an exciting set of snapshots of Durham politics and greeting dignitaries and the six times he was sworn in fr...
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Bull City reads: 'Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship,...
Tom Bonfield oversees a $362.5 million budget, 2,400 employees, and services for the 232,677 people who live within the Durham city limits. The city manager does not find a lot of spare time hanging heavily on his hands.
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Study of race, students lacks academic rigor
As black alumni of Duke University, we are deeply troubled and offended by the recent study emanating from faculty members at our alma mater. The research and logic in their unpublished study titled, “What Happens After Enrollment: An Analysis of the Time Path of Racial Differences in GPA and Major Choice,” is both flawed and incorrect.
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