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...last week, Murphy has reportedlywithdrawn his application for a head coaching jobat Duke, where he was said to be one of thefinalists, and discussed contract extensions withUniversity of Cincinnati President John Stager,according to Cincinnati Sports InformationDirector for Football John Hamel...
...University of Pennsylvania, black students who disliked a student's columns challenging affirmative action and the character of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stole 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian and said they were combating "institutional racism." At Duke University, gays who did not like a student columnist's opinion that theirs was "a dirty, sinful lifestyle that doesn't deserve any special rights" blocked his way to class and shouted epithets. At neither Penn nor Duke were the perpetrators disciplined. During the academic year that ended in June, there were 12 major incidents of U.S. campus papers stolen...
...study anyone's culture but one's own -- unless one is white, in which case it is necessary to learn about the oppressed others -- is to commit an act of identity suicide. Beyond this loss of interest in universal ideas, often expressed as disbelief that anything is actually universal, Duke political scientist James David Barber sees a growing attitude that reason and factuality themselves are European cultural artifacts. Says Barber: "I think a lot of 'impressionism' -- a detestation of reason in favor of emotion -- is happening now." Scholars who agree with Barber note that p.c. thinkers consider a claim...
...laws with such impunity? The answer is that the INS is simply outmanned: with 6,000 miles of open borders, a burgeoning population of illegals and a relatively static force of only 5,600 agents, the U.S. has effectively lost control of its territorial integrity, especially in the Southwest. Duke Austin, a senior INS spokesman in Washington, puts it bluntly: "The system is -- there's no other word -- bankrupt, in money and resources...
...prepared to work in small groups or on your own. Even on assembly lines, work teams rather than masses of undifferentiated laborers are the order of the day. The trend is likely to go much further among knowledge workers. Says John McCann, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business: "Sometimes I use the analogy of the cowboy. He used to ride around the West signing on with different ranches when they needed work." Similarly, he thinks, cybercowboys will ride the information superhighway, not working regularly for anybody but contracting with one corporation after another to do specific...