Category: 2011
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UNC hires Graham to head new Department of Irreligion
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina is set to hire William Franklin Graham III as the founding director of what is believed to be the nation's first department…
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“Aren’t you Gary Gaddy?” Lesser moments in columnar fame
Just in case you are tempted to write a column for your local newspaper — as a service to the reading public — let my experience be a cautionary tale.…
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Coaches Krzyzewski and Williams fined for comments
GREENSBORO — The Atlantic Coast Conference today announced substantial fines levied on head coaches Michael Krzyzewski and Roy Williams, of Duke University and the University of North Carolina, respectively, for…
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Top of the Pops: A pop music pop quiz (’60s edition)
Question: What '60s song, made popular by which group, gained most of it fame from its mysteriously vulgar lyrics and was supposedly recorded just after its lead singer had dental…
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I plea bargained with the law — and the law won
I THOUGHT I HAD SCHEMED the system when my able attorney (who, for legal reasons, shall remain nameless) got me a bargain of a plea: a slap on the wrist…
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When you’ve said “Wisconsin!” — you’ve said it all
PLEASE UNDERSTAND that the state of Wisconsin is, and has been, in a state of confusion. This is the state that brought us both Joseph McCarthy and Frank P. Zeidler.…
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Shari Lewis exhumed; Lamb Chop again under suspicion
Editor's note: Despite last week's column's promise to deliver all the celebrity news our readers would ever need to read, as you will see, we had to publish this story.…
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Today’s time and money saver: The generic celebrity news
READERS MAY WISH TO CLIP this special special-edition column and save it to read every week, or even every day if necessary, as it allows an individual to keep up…
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Tar Heels succeed in spite of themselves; Duke fails me
THIS PAST WEEK'S SPORTS NEWS featuring the Tar Heel Nation illustrates several fundamental principles of the sporting life. The most prominent being: "It does not matter what you say about…
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Gaddy indicted under International Blogging Conventions
THE HAGUE — The International Court of Justice, operating under the Lucerne Conventions Concerning Blogging and Hacking, today presented an indictment of Gary D. Gaddy, the originator, author and sole…
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