Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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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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Why my dad married my mom, I think
IT'S A PRETTY GOOD LOVE STORY, my mom and dad. As I have mentioned before, every Thanksgiving Dad tells the story of how they first met. This is how it…
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Welcome to Neologismia and other made-up words
ALL MY COLUMNS ARE WRITTEN IN WORDS. Mostly the same old words (e.g., the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, I). This gets boring for me, so I am…
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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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It’s little ol’ me versus the killer deer
I AM AT WAR WITH THE DEER. Over the years I have killed two of them – but, understand, they were trying to kill me first. Back when it was…
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“Are you stupid?” A gaffe of Olympic proportions
VANCOUVER, via satellite — It would have gone down as one of the great gaffes in sports history, if it had been in a sport that anyone cared about. It…
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Inflating Carolina: Achieving a workable solution
GRADE INFLATION IS SUCH A PROBLEM for the University of North Carolina that I can't even find a list of UNC's recent valedictorians. Why not? Probably because printing it out…
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Inflating Carolina: The root of the problem
CAROLINA, AND ABOUT EVERY OTHER COLLEGE in America, has a problem with continually inflating grades, having become an institution where all the students are above average — almost literally. As…
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