Month: April 2010
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Why angry and aggravated Arizonans are angry and aggravated
MY SWEET, SMART MOM ASKED ME why what was going on in Arizona was going on in Arizona. “Wasn’t America made up of immigrants?” she asked. It is a good…
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Destroying diversity in order to save it
YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT we would have learned this lesson in Vietnam, where a military officer once famously proclaimed that “we had to destroy the village in order to save…
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Who hates Duke? Not me, certainly not me
HAVING BEEN A CAROLINA BASKETBALL FAN ever since Al Wood’s senior season (which just so happened to be my first year in graduate school at UNC’s illustrious School of Journalism…
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Duke basketball victory celebration muted
DURHAM — Amid the whoops and hollers, and the traditional bonfire bench burnings, longtime basketball observers could not help but notice a distinct shadow falling across Duke’s on-campus national championship…
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Deconstructing the Defenestrations of Prague
“DEFENESTRATION: Sales dive leads to turnover at the top,” the online headline said, which prompted me to quiz my lovely and unsuspecting wife (who was also online at a different…
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