Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins Canadian Timothy Findley's fourth and most peculiar novel. In Ragtime style. Famous Last Words assembles a vivid cast of historical personages, among them the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lana Turner, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Lindbergh. But here the famous names do not move to syncopated jazz; instead the work resounds with tainted anthems...
While most university work in journalism deals with training, the concept behind the center is not completely new--Duke and the University of Indiana have similar programs underway...
Many who leave the neighborhood eventually want to return, says Tom "Duke" Fusco. After all he explains, "it's got its problems, but it's better than most neighborhoods around."Crimson William F. HemmondSAL DiDOMENICO and family in front of his flower shop on Cambridge...
...expected to have broad impact; scholars suggest that the Nixon ruling was noteworthy mostly on a theoretical level. Says Bender: "It has very little practical application. The chances of being able to prove a case against the President were always very small." Nevertheless, some experts welcome the ruling. Says Duke Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "I do not want a President of the United States to have to worry about being haled into court, testifying, and having to pay damages from his private savings...
...proposed new White House. One of those he triumphed over was Thomas Jefferson, who had submitted his entry anonymously. Hoban's vision of the President's house was influenced by one of the finest examples of the English Palladian style, the famous Dublin mansion of the Duke of Leinster...