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...Duke University, graduate students from a variety of different departments teach the writing classes required of all first-years...
American Orientalism: Queer Romance. Michael Moon, Duke University. Boylston Auditorium...
...talked a bit both at the book reading and in your book about populism being a term that's misused greatly. ("Calling David Duke a populist is like calling Pat Buchanan a global visionary: message--Zulus are coming.") Can you ever...
Coronary bypass operations for patients over 80 generally produce bills twice as high as those for younger people, says Robert Jones, professor of surgery at North Carolina's Duke University. Jones, who heads a federally financed project to establish guidelines for cardiovascular surgery, explains that people like the nonagenarian of Clinton's anecdote stay in the hospital longer than younger people because of age-related surgical complications and the lack of people to care for them when they go home. As a result, says Jones, the pressure to turn down such high-risk, expensive patients "will be more than subtle...
...thing in American journalism, because only in the past half-century have journalists had anything to be pretentious about. Some of the great names of American writing cut their teeth in the press -- Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway. But until well into this century, most reporters fit the Duke of Wellington's description of the English soldier -- "the scum of the earth." They were lively but ignorant, and often venal. The spread of college education affected even them, however, until by now all journalists know something, though perhaps less than everything. With skills came pride. Journalists no longer submit...