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...Gates, the DuBois professor of the humanities, doesn't seem to need a lot of instruction, he has the air of a natural leader. During his first hour-long interview with The Crimson late last week, the former Duke University scholar was personable and friendly. He is familiar with the media--he has appeared in hundreds of newspaper articles. Self-assured, almost cocky, Gates is in control...
...Gates believes he can be that voice without leaving the banks of the Charles River. While tenured at Duke, Gates spent a lot of time away from Durham, attending conferences and giving lectures across the country. Gates says his leadership role in the field justified his frequent travel. On reflection, Gates says, his travel was also an excuse to leave Duke...
Talk about strange bedfellows. Even David Duke, the blow-dried Louisiana legislator and former Ku Klux Klansman, must have been taken aback when a black Pentecostal church in Memphis invited him to speak at a rally to raise money for a gymnasium to serve inner-city black youths. "Duke draws a crowd, he has a message and he says he's a Christian," explained Jimmy Boyd, the owner of a local gospel radio station, who arranged the event...
...Duke is also an ambitious politician who is a candidate for Governor of Louisiana, a state with a large black vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser. Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften his racist image without saying anything...
Even being truly overweight need not be unhealthy. "People who only look at the numbers on the bathroom scale are missing things that count," says Dr. MichaelHamilton, director of Duke University's Diet and Fitness Center. "They need better guidelines about what counts: bringing blood pressure, cholesterol or diabetes under control and being able to move better and be more energetic...