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...Harper's Arctic admonition could rekindle the old doubts, but improvements in the U.S.-Canada relationship will probably come through a mutual recognition of the new "geopolitical realities" in an energy-hungry and security-conscious North America, says Professor John Thompson, who teaches Canadian studies at North Carolina's Duke University. And no one is better positioned to exploit those new realities than Harper, thanks to networks in place among western Canadian conservatives, Calgary oil barons and U.S. Republicans. As a result, some long-simmering trade quarrels, such as the one over softwood lumber, may be moved from the back...
John Wayne comes on at the start of the series' first episode (of an epochal 635) to say that this will be a different kind of western. And James Arness's Marshal Dillon was a different kind of lawman--like the Duke after anger management. Gunsmoke led the TV stampede of "adult westerns." Dillon might be the sage of the sagebrush, musing on man's weakness for violence, but since every show begins with his gunning down a bad guy, we know that this is the same old (Testament) stuff, with a little sweet pacifist palaver mixed...
...tail” puns—“Our tale is almost done”—served as a staple diversionary device, a little bit of inter-group tension might have served to liven things up a bit. But Martinez may soon have other opportunities to duke it out on the small screen.Martinez has been contacted by “Beauty and the Geek,” a WB reality series in which “nerdy” guys are paired up with beautiful women. A self-proclaimed lover of the spotlight, Martinez says...
...hemisphere can be busy writing a grocery list or solving an equation while the other scans the environment and tends to other basic chores. As we age, however, the walls between the hemispheres seem to fall, with the two halves working increasingly in tandem. Neuroscientist Roberto Cabeza of Duke University dubs that the HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) model, and judging by his work, the phenomenon is a powerful...
...leaders of both chambers of Congress, the professors also sent it to the chairmen and ranking members of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. The other signers included former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan, a former HLS professor who has often collaborated with Tribe, and Walter E. Dellinger, a Duke professor who authored the friend of the court brief signed by 40 HLS professors supporting universities’ right to bar military recruiters from campus. Tribe, in a separate but similar letter sent three days earlier to the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers...