Category: Business
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High class, low class or no class: A quiz
The high-class, low-class or no-class quiz, also known as the Chapel Hill, Carrboro or Northern Orange County location test, is presented today to help my readers assess their social standing…
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Cisco/Crisco merger to produce slickest high-tech yet
SAN JOSE, Calif. and ORRVILLE, Oh. — Cisco Systems®, the leading supplier of networking equipment and Crisco® Oils and Shortenings, a spin-off from the J.M. Smucker Company, announced today the…
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Wins and losses: The woos and woes of “going pro”
NOW THAT BASKETBALL PLAYING SEASON is over (no, the NBA doesn't count), for fans of the top teams, it is a season of sadness and helplessness, as the college basketball…
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Puff (the Magic Dragon) busted on possession charges
LONDON — Puff (the Magic Dragon), who had disappeared from the public eye following the last Peter, Paul and Mary Reunion Tour, re-appeared in a London courtroom today. Puffy, as…
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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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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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