Word: duking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fearing human rights violations in so-called "sweatshops," students from five universities that employ Nike to supply their clothing--Duke, Georgetown, and the Universities of Arizona, Michigan at Ann Arbor and North Carolina at Chapel Hill--succeeded last week in convincing the company to divulge the names and addresses of 42 of its factories. The list includes firms located both in the U.S. and abroad...
...after a big win--not partying but studying. He seemed to enjoy the punishment. As his fame grew, he found escape in what he calls "a deepening of my own private world." He had to figure out who he was and what he wanted--choosing Princeton over basketball powerhouse Duke, for example, because Princeton graduated more Rhodes scholars and he wanted to go to Oxford. After graduating from Princeton and leading the U.S. Olympic basketball team in 1964, he won his Rhodes scholarship and spent two years at Oxford, then turned...
...gold standard might well be political philosopher Nannerl O. Keohane. The editor of Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology (1982), she's published widely about feminism and has administrative experience to boot--she's the president of Duke University...
...course, Keohane already has a job. With an endowment of $1.4 billion as of last June, Duke has four times the resources of the new Institute. What's more, Keohane is only a year into a five-year, $1.5 billion capital campaign...
...really all over for us unless John McCain's long-shot-maverick strategy has unexpected appeal to those who decide the Republican nomination? Maybe not. The Ames straw poll was led by Bush and Steve Forbes, both Boomers. But who came in a strong third? Elizabeth Dole--Duke, class of '58, and not even a fake draft card among her youthful follies. When it comes to presidential politics, Elizabeth Dole may be the last of the Fifties Guys...