Category: 2010
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Some (relatively) good news on the Gulf oil spill
FIRST OFF, LET ME STATE that I am not a petro-geologist or a marine biologist or an expert of any kind on the effects of petroleum on the ocean's flora…
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The freedom to “Choose Life” — or perhaps not
I RECENTLY GOT a specialized license plate for my car. The special plate I chose has an interlocking "N" and "C" on it, but there are also plates honoring, and…
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The Gulf oil spill disaster: Who is to blame?
FOLLOWING THE RECENT EXPLOSION and oil-pipe rupture at the British Petroleum drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama, in an unusual display of emotion, said, "I…
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College basketball, the season now under review
JUST AS THIS WAS THE SEASON where college basketballdom discovered the wonderful innovation of stopping every game with 14 minutes left to go in the first half to spend several…
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Our new state song, I hope: Carolina in the Fall
NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS A NEW STATE SONG. Our old one (Remember it? Didn't think so.) is, well, old and, at best, forgettable. (Although my lovely and talented wife could, when…
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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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