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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior at Duke for the 1986-87 season, Kerr lead the Blue Devils to the national championship, beating Harvard in the semi-finals 3-1, and won the prestigious Hermann Trophy, an honor awarded each year to the most outstanding player in men's collegiate soccer...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Kerr: Building a Contender | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...current state of the presidential race might give the average citizen reason to despair and might even challenge the creative genius of the world's greatest political cartoonist, but as I sit at my desk, I see Duke, dragging on his cigarette, saying, "Things could be worse; Zonker could be running." On second thought, that doesn't sound...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Notes From Walden Puddle | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...figure is Uncle Duke, the Thompson-inspired ne'er-do-well of the strip whose exploits have included countless drug trips, a brief stint as Governor of American Samoa and a classic turn as dean of Caribbean medical school, where students pioneered the transplant of a liberal heart into a conservative body (doctors were sure it was liberal heart because the body had been pulled from a Volvo). I often turn to Duke, my Trudeau talisman, for inspiration when writing papers, studying Greek or just seeking the meaning of life. For in my opinion, the answers...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Notes From Walden Puddle | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...fought against "faggots," "yellow niggers," "white interlopers" and "diamond merchants." His political organization is littered with avowed racists, anti-Semites and bigots. He has on numerous occasions ignited and stoked the flames of racial hatred. Is this David Duke or some other Klansman? No, it's Al Sharpton, who was Harvard Law School's guest last Wednesday...

Author: By Avi M. Bell and Aharon J. Friedman, S | Title: Moral Cowardice and Bigotry at the Law School | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...increase in exercise. They aren't getting many book contracts. "Most Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, and now you have diets like Atkins that say don't eat sweet potatoes, don't eat carrots, don't eat corn," says Franca Alphin, administrative director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more unusual a diet is, the more different from the standard of what people normally eat and find around them, the more apt they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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