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...drug companies” over public policy. Achmat said that in coming to Harvard, he was fulfilling a promise he had made which a heart attack in 2004 had stopped him from carrying out. This is his last stop on a tour of the country that has included Duke and the University of Chicago, and Achmat said he had no plans to return to the United States. Achmat’s speech at the Forum was the opening keynote in the International Development Conference this weekend, a student-run event now in its twelfth year...
...weeks ago, three white lacrosse players at Duke were accused of raping a local African-American college student who was hired as a dancer for their off-campus party. Since the story was picked up by the national media, some have criticized media coverage as sensationalistic, urging reporters to limit their coverage of the alleged rape to the facts.The media and the district attorney’s office, however, are not sensationalizing the allegations; rather, they are reporting the facts of the case. And it is an undisputed fact that a rape is alleged to have occurred, and most...
...editors: As a Duke University student who has been deeply affected by the recent allegations of the rape of a North Carolina Central University student by three Duke lacrosse players, I am not surprised that Brad Hinshelwood would address the “turmoil” on Duke’s campus in Harvard’s student newspaper (“Duke Scandal Raises Issues,” sports, Apr. 4), just as it has been covered in our student newspaper, local newspapers, and national newspapers like The New York Times. However, Hinshelwood’s piece caught...
Picking a favorite detail is an arbitrary exercise, but I’ll go ahead and choose “The coca leaf is slightly damp / Sproutin’ in the back yard next to Grand Duke tomato plants.” Where other rappers retell the same gangsta story, Ghostface writes...
...people are consoled by prayer. Prayer is so transcendent and metaphysical that it can’t be measured scientifically,” she said. “There are different rubrics for evaluating science and religion.” Critics of the study, including Dr. Mitchell Krucoff of Duke University, published an editorial in the American Heart Journal claiming that researchers took “an almost casual approach toward any explanation.” Dusek said that the scientists’ experiment was worthwhile, despite the lack of definitive results. “We were scientifically valid...