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...Hirschfeld seemed perfectly at ease with himself, his work and his Great White World. He knew how hard it was to create a good play. In 1947 he had worked on a show - "Sweet Bye and Bye," collaborating with S.J. Perelman on the book while Ogden Nash and Vernon Duke did the songs - only to see it expire out of town. Hirschfeld called it a mercy killing...
...It’s going to be a bit more competitive, there’s no question about that,” says Dennis J. Shields, associate dean for admissions and financial aid at Duke Law School. “We’re planning to be a bit more cautious. We’ll probably make fewer offers initially...take a bit stronger LSAT, a bit stronger academic record. But I don’t necessarily think they’ll be a dramatic difference in who we’ll admit...
...stylish beliefs can be promulgated. But the process of self-victimization actually runs counter to the objectives of the BLSA’s own stated purpose of creating a “discriminatory harassment policy” to ameliorate ethnic insensitivity. As ACLU president, Nadine Strossen wrote in the Duke Law Journal, “Because civil libertarians have learned that free speech is an indispensable instrument for the promotion of other rights and freedoms—including racial equality—we fear that the movement to regulate campus expression will undermine equality, as well as free speech. Combating...
...over two years. Still at question is whether this Rebel flag is a thoughtful "heritage" salute to the Confederate dead or a racist affront to African-Americans. The NAACP has poured untold resources into banning the flag because the park is funded by taxpayer dollars. Former Klansman David Duke and U.S. Senator Trent Lott have been the most high-profile proponents of keeping the flag, a symbol of their white Southern pride. A clear battle-line has been drawn in the state that Martin Luther King, Jr. once said had a "strange affinity for the bottom...
Tacky costumes and a passion for performance have remained a part of Braxton-Brooks’ life ever since. She attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a magnet high school for the performing arts in Washington, D.C. There, after her academic day ended, she regularly spent 10 hours a day rehearsing. Cramming for tests in the corner of dance studios during breaks had positive consequences. “I can study anywhere now,” she says...