Category: Local
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Extending love to those in pain
AS A CHRISTIAN IT IS MY DUTY to aid the afflicted, to comfort those suffering hardship and to extend loving care to those in pain. So, in this season of…
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A pop quiz for my quizzical readers
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKING ME, "What do you do?" Well, people, I'm not paid to take your pop quizzes. One good thing about being a Local Voices writer is that…
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I saw (or heard) it on the sidelines
MY WIFE AND I have really nice season tickets for the UNC women's home games. So good, sometimes we can't see the game. Like when the opposing coach stands up…
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The long and the shorts of it
ONCE, WHILE WATCHING A UNC MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME circa 1996, I wondered if we would ever see basketball "shorts" any larger than those worn by Serge Zwikker who stood 7-foot-3-inches…
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Dean Smith to coach Obama’s team
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Hall of Fame basketball coach Dean E. Smith announced today that he is coming out of his decade-long retirement to coach basketball again. Smith will be…
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Brightest guy in the room
HERB SENDEK IS MAKING ME LOOK GOOD. I said, when he was run out of town on a rail three years ago by the ever-thoughtful Wolfpack Nation, "In four or…
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Local writer treated for imperfection
Due to an unexpected hospitalization, the Local Voices column usually appearing in this space will not appear this week. The Chapel Hill Herald editorial staff hopes that its readers be…
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Irony of ironies: An ironic column
AS A WRITER I USE WORDS ALL THE TIME. In fact, even when I wasn't a writer I used words all the time. As a professor of journalism I was…
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Learning the Goldsmith Variations
FRED GOLDSMITH, you may or may not remember, was the head football coach at Duke from 1994 to 1998. We commemorate this month the 10th anniversary of his firing. Goldsmith…
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Toilet paper and other crises
AS A ONE-TIME SCHOLAR of mass communication, I say that the daily papers (and other news media) may be part of our current economic crisis. Their own economic troubles aside…
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