Category: Business
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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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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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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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Chapel Hill’s problem is Chapel Hill
THE PROBLEM WITH CHAPEL HILL is often it doesn't seem to know that it is the problem with Chapel Hill. (By Chapel Hill I don't mean the all the town's…
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The New York Times v. Citizens United v. FEC
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Some of the organs of the major mass media, which I won't mention by…
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Some players who have gone pro early
AS THE NEW SEMESTER BEGINS, my thoughts turn to today, January 15, the deadline for eligible college football players to declare for the National Football League draft. (Happily, for me,…
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Ten or so things that I learned from my dad
MY DAD'S BIRTHDAY is today. My birthday present for Dr. Clifford Garland Gaddy, Sr., M.D., is a recounting of some of the best gifts he has given to me: things…
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The bottom eight news stories from 2009
THE YEAR-END, AND YEAR-EARLY-DECADE-END, lists are rolling in. This is one you haven't seen: the bottom eight news stories from 2009. Some of them aren't completely made up. Ashland passes…
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Lessons we can all learn from Tiger Woods
FOR A LONG TIME lots of people have wanted to learn from Tiger Woods. Many were golfers who wanted to improve their game. Sadly, most people can't improve their golf…
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What does true human greatness look like?
THIS YEAR A GREAT MAN passed from this earth. That man was Robinson O. Everett. Characterized by his Duke Law School colleague Clark Havigurst as "a gentle, unassuming force of…
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