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...This War Would Not Be Moral" [VIEWPOINT, March 3], Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas asserted that by describing Saddam as evil, Bush "gives this war a religious justification." But religion has nothing to do with legitimizing this war. Saddam's immoral behavior provides the basis for action. He has used poison gas on the Kurds, supplied money to suicide bombers and built lavish homes for himself--all while Iraqis starve. These actions are evil and alone provide more than enough moral justification for war. Going to war is never the first option, but when all others have been exhausted...
Last month, Bruce Springsteen played two sold-out benefit concerts for the magazine, saving it from near-certain financial ruin. In the intervening years, DoubleTake had won numerous awards, moved its headquarters from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies to Somerville, Mass., and withstood public complaints and legal threats from contributors who waited years before being paid...
Early in its history, DoubleTake had seemingly limitless financial backing from the Lyndhurst Foundation, on whose board Coles sat at the time. This backing later became a $10 million endowment situated at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies...
Five years ago, Jack Cakebread, the founder of Cakebread Cellars, began traveling to different schools such as Harvard, Yale and Duke, pitching the wine industry. He recently decided to cut back on his travel miles and have the business school students come to him; Harvard was his test case. “Jack’s idea is to get new talent from the schools [to stay competitive],” says Punwani. “With the consolidation of liquor companies, the family vineyards [like Cakebread’s] are afraid they will be gobbled...
...blood-typing error that resulted in 17-year-old Jesica Santillan's being given the wrong heart and lungs was, by all accounts, an unusual mistake for the prestigious Duke University Hospital. Even rarer in some ways was the frank public acknowledgment of error by the hospital, followed by a sincere apology from her doctor. According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that sort of thing doesn't happen often enough, especially for patients who desperately want more information about what's happening to them--both good...