Month: January 2009
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The long and the shorts of it
ONCE, WHILE WATCHING A UNC MEN’S BASKETBALL GAME circa 1996, I wondered if we would ever see basketball “shorts” any larger than those worn by Serge Zwikker who stood 7-foot-3-inches…
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Dean Smith to coach Obama’s team
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Hall of Fame basketball coach Dean E. Smith announced today that he is coming out of his decade-long retirement to coach basketball again. Smith will be…
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Brightest guy in the room
HERB SENDEK IS MAKING ME LOOK GOOD. I said, when he was run out of town on a rail three years ago by the ever-thoughtful Wolfpack Nation, “In four or…
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Local writer treated for imperfection
Due to an unexpected hospitalization, the Local Voices column usually appearing in this space will not appear this week. The Chapel Hill Herald editorial staff hopes that its readers be…
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Irony of ironies: An ironic column
AS A WRITER I USE WORDS ALL THE TIME. In fact, even when I wasn’t a writer I used words all the time. As a professor of journalism I was…
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