Word: duked
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Thompson points to recent fellows who have gone on to lead ethics programs at other leading universities. Amy Gutmann, dean of the faculty at Princeton, recently founded that university's Center for Human Values, and Elizabeth Kiss is now director of Duke University's Kenan Center for Ethics...
...beginning of this academic year, I called Room 13 for "Prank Files," saying I had a problem--Harvard was number three in U.S. News and World Report. I said I had chosen to go to Harvard because it was ranked number one, and I fretted that lowly Duke was ranked only one below us. I explained I liked Harvard and the people here, but I just wasn't sure being number three was good enough to pursue my future goal of working at Merrill Lynch. Room 13 responded politely to my "problem" and asked me if I really thought...
Owner Duarte "Duke" Carvahlo said he is confident his sixth franchised Dunkin' Donuts will succeed and hopes it will become home to a broad range of clientele...
Whether customers embrace the new services, however, may depend as much on technical issues as on cost. Gamers hooked on such "twitch" titles as Quake and Duke Nukem live for lightning-fast action. This is easy to reproduce on high-speed office networks; it remains to be seen whether it can be delivered over standard modems and phone lines. "The allure of being in front of those 30 million people is awfully attractive," says Bob Huntley, president of DWANGO, a network gaming operation. "But I wouldn't put Doom or Duke Nukem on the Internet...
Since recrossing the Atlantic, she has begun to make waves. Her performance at a celebration of the film music of Duke Ellington at New York City's Lincoln Center in May startled and delighted those who heard it. As she took the stage to sing Ellington's Saddest Tale--performed by Holiday in 1935--her bearing was tentative, awkward. But when she started singing, her performance was said to be impeccably phrased, suffused with emotion; the New York Times said "she might as well have been channeling Billie Holiday...