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...script this time is that Dole is unscripted. I catch on after three people, including Dole herself, tell me how she jumped on a Harley to roar into an auditorium at Duke University, which, of course, was entirely scripted. The crowd is not terribly specific about why they like her, but they do love her. One says Dole is "so much like Jesse," another marvels at how Dole's "mother over there in Salisbury is 101 years old," while a white-haired gentleman gushes over "what a pretty lady she is." He puts a yellow PRIDE IN TOBACCO...
...next four years." The question is when Germans will do their own Abbott and Costello routine: asking not what is wrong, but who. POWER Last One Out, Kill The Lights Europe's body electric is back in native hands, but is that anything to sing about? Following AEP and Duke Energy, TXU became the latest U.S. energy firm to turn its back on Europe last week, withdrawing a $700 million lifeline and signaling that it may sell the division, which has over 5.7 million customers. But who would want it? Firms in Germany, France and the U.K. have serious energy...
Under pressure to fall in line with other elite medical schools like Harvard, Yale, Duke and Stanford, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has replaced its letter-grading system with a pass-fail system...
...because she rarely does. Any mention of three decades serving three Presidents and thawing Lean Cuisine for husband Senator Bob Dole at their Watergate apartment is drowned out by her frequent recital of local credentials in aresurgent drawl: her 1994 North Carolinian of the Year award, her degree from Duke and, of course, her mother, whose house she recently bought, making Dole the best kind of North Carolinian, a landowner. "My roots are deep. I've been here constantly," she says constantly, as if being graded on attendance...
...Carla Cook would seem to be facing a rocky path across the current jazz terrain. But she can sing--really sing. Situating her gospel-tinted voice in a propulsive rhythmic groove, she proceeds to bend the blues, rehabilitate some standards (by Simon and Garfunkel as well as by Duke Ellington) and scamper through a couple of her own intriguing compositions. Simply Natural may fall an inch short of her spectacular last CD, Dem Bones, but that's no insult. Cook can cook. --By Daniel Okrent