Category: Business
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The News in Briefs –The Mass Media Edition
Progressive media in national OCD clinical study BETHESDA, Md. — The National Institute of Mental Health announced today a $7.7 million grant to fund a collaborative study with the University…
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Dinner for Ten: A Parable of Tax Cuts
THE FOLLOWING PARABLE has floated around the Internet in various versions for a while. The author is in question but may be one Don Dodson, who submitted a letter to…
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Here’s a different lesson on taxation: A reply to a reply
BELOW IS A LETTER TO THE EDITOR of the Chapel Hill Herald written by North Carolina State Senator Eleanor Kinnaird in reply to the column above: "Dinner for Ten: A…
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How I met my wife: The true story finally revealed
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME how I met my wife I usually respond with a question: "Do you want the story we told our parents or the true story?" Or, if…
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It’s time for a timely yet timeless column
SOMETIMES I LIKE TO WRITE timeless columns. Now many authors have written timeless works, like Mark Twain writing Tom Sawyer, or Tolstoy writing War and Peace, or Shakespeare writing one…
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“Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus,” a cautionary tale
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – I really would like to say that it wasn't my fault – but I can't. I really can't. Four years ago on the weekend of the…
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The Decision: Gaddy to stay put at The Chapel Hill Herald
CHAPEL HILL — Swirls of speculation and unprecedented journalistic frenzy — stirred by the recent Lebronathon — came to a head this week with the growing recognition that a local…
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The gravity of the law: defy it at your own peril
THE LAW OF GRAVITY IS. No point in discussing it, because you are not going to change it. You don't have to like it, but you will obey it —…
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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 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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