Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commented Joel Fleishman, a Duke University political scientist: "Carter seemed to be still struggling for his New Frontier, his New Deal, his new Fair Deal - but it just wasn't there...
...four odiously well-behaved Sunday school classmates named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. A second can still summon up the sense of majesty and magic that came upon first hearing of the escape from Egypt and the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. William Willimon, now teaching at Duke University's divinity school, fondly looks back on a "church that still believed that Christians were made, not born, and that someone had to get with you, for at least an hour on Sunday morning, or you would not make...
Burke Pearson Speaks his Edward IV so dreadfully that one is thankful Shakespeare let the king die after one scene. Philip Casnoff makes a properly youthful Clarence, through there is more poetry in his long Dream than he has yet discovered. In the play's second-largest part, the Duke of Buckingham, David Huffman speaks admirably, with only an occasional violation of the meter; he is especially good in the scene with Richard as Mock-Monk. Tyrrel is not a large role, but Richard Seer brings sly subtlety to his inflections, looks and gait, and comes up with a real...
...that scientists will be cautious about sharing information, long an essential part of the scientific process. Warns M.I.T.'s Jonathan A. King, a molecular biologist: "Now you have the prospect of keeping a strain [of bacteria] out of circulation until you have the patents." Wolfgang Joklik, chairman of Duke University's department of microbiology and immunology, wants to see scientists rewarded for what they do. But he adds with concern, "I just don't want to see organisms patented for commercial exploitation. I would like to be sure that everything is available for basic research...
Earl Warren couldn't have said it better; in the name of the First Amendment, Duke discloses, among other things that "white people face massive discrimination in employment opportunities, in scholarship opportunities in school, in promotions in industry, in college entrance admittance.... We prefer things that are white. We prefer the white race in terms of physical beauty, we prefer the white race in terms of our heritage and culture. We prefer our lifestyle to that of blacks and non-whites around the world...the discrimination whites are experiencing today is far more massive than what blacks experienced...