Category: Politics
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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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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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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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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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A Christmas column — or maybe not
I WAS PLANNING TO WRITE a Christmas column, what with it being Christmas and all, but then I started reading the newspaper and now I'm not sure I can. Apparently…
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A prayer for my nation and my world
This is what was on my heart when I woke up this morning. Sometimes I make jokes about praying, this is not one of those times. *** I PRAY FOR…
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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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Skin game: The reality of racial profiling
RACIAL PROFIING EXISTS. Those who say it doesn't haven't been paying attention. I know it exists because I have been racially profiled many times. When I was in high school,…
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Talking health care reform in Carrboro
LAST TUESDAY NIGHT I was having a drink on the patio outside Panzanella in Carr Mill Mall following a meeting at Club Nova intended to help the board catch a…
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