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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 aHarley 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...
...problem is that there is an overemphasis on learning basic skills instead of creative thinking," says Jack Bookman, associate professor of the practice of mathematics at Duke University. This doesn't mean that learning multiplication, subtraction and addition isn't important or that software can't help with drilling, but such skills are best honed after kids have learned the underlying concepts for these operations...
...doubles team of Andersen and Wang just missed advancing past the prequalifying rounds. The pair won its first two matches, but came up short in its third, losing 8-1 to the third-seeded pair from Duke...
Katie Ridd, the Demon Deacons’ goalkeeper, is the reigning ACC Player of the Week, following a shutout of No. 13 Duke and after racking up a season-high nine saves against No. 7 North Carolina while allowing only one goal...
That year, Harvard fell from the top faculty resources rank to number 11, while Duke climbed from number 13 to number four...