Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James David Barber, 49, a tall, soft-spoken Duke professor who likes to psychoanalyze Presidents, has now attempted a more ambitious task: putting the entire American electorate on the couch. In what has been a year of rather cautious punditing, he proposes a provocative new theory of cyclical moods to explain why Presidents get elected. Woe to the candidate who is out of phase with the cycle; no matter what he does, he doesn't stand a chance...
...Duke University has plans to require English composition for all freshmen regardless of entering grades or Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. But the battle does not end with the freshman year. Dartmouth recently discovered that the skill of some students who did well in freshman writing actually declined in the next three years, so lax were the college writing requirements...
Denying rumours that the strips in question concerned an attempt to rescue Uncle Duke, who was last seen in Iran several months ago trying to buy off an Islamic Revolutionary Guard firing squad, Salem said they actually depicted a trip to the U.S. embassy in Tehran by the Rev. Scott Sloan...
Jennifer Hillman, an assistant to chancellor Kenneth Pye, said the university is worried about a possible negative reaction from the community about the availability of food stamps to Duke students...
Beginning next fall, Duke will inform students that if they receive food stamps, the value of the food stamps will be deducted from their financial aid, Hillman said...