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Five consecutive championships doesn't exactly produce many friends. Just ask the Duke basketball team...
When the familiar swept-back hairdo has been built and lacquered, King often drives downtown for lunch at Duke Zeibert's, one of the capital's last old- fashioned, macho places to be seen. From his usual table, he can quickly scan, and be scanned by, every patron who enters. For lunch he invariably has slab after slab of Streit's salted matzos, lavishly spread with light margarine, plus a lettuce-and-tomato salad. Between bites he waves to and chats with all the pols, power brokers and wannabes...
...college that at least publicly ranks campus diversity as one of its top admissions priorities, why is it so hard for Harvard to attract minority students? One reason is money. In recent years, schools like Stanford and Duke have begun to woo prospective minority first-years with attractive race-based aid packages...
...Some Duke administrators believe their systemwould also be successful at Harvard. And some sayNathans is the person...
When she was first appointed dean in April,Nathans said the Duke model--with its emphasis onclose faculty contact--would emasculate Harvard'sproctor system. And in an interview last week, shesaid the Duke system differed significantly fromHarvard's because Duke prohibited proctors fromacademic advising and offered financial incentivesfor faculty participation...