Word: duke
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...wanted to call it the The Fall of Daisy Duke," she says. "It's the story of a disastrous love affair about which I was trying to be funny and I thought that title would convey that...
Perhaps the single strongest element of the show, however, lies in the third important group of characters. These are the "mechanicals," the clowns of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A band of lower-class artisans, their only goal is to rehearse the play they hope to stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends...
...mice, says Caron, a biochemist at Duke University's Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory, are high on dopamine. They lack the genetic mechanism that sponges up this powerful stuff and spirits it away. Result: there is so much dopamine banging around in the poor creatures' synapses that the mice, though drug-free, act as if they were strung out on cocaine...
...teams was $16,000, while the women's teams represented an expenditure of $62,000. Brown, which was supported by briefs from more than 60 other institutions, has since spent an estimated $1 million on a team of lawyers to fight the Title IX ruling. Duke University law professor John Weistart, an expert on sports law, says, "I've looked at the amicus briefs, and some of them read like polemics, comparing Title IX to affirmative action. This case became the rallying cry for the anti-Title IX folks, so the reaction of supporters is understandable...
Included in this list are all eight Ivy League schools, Duke, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford and the University of Chicago...