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...respect what the Olympics meant. Plus, he got a fair amount of criticism for making that guarantee. Now, give him credit. Sure, the United States was pumped for these Olympics since the summer of '06, the year new U.S.A. basketball chief Jerry Colangelo and his choice as coach, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, gathered the core players of this team to start training for Beijing. They didn't need LeBronic hubris to help them. After they beat the world's top international teams by an average of 27.9 points per game in these Olympics, the U.S. probably would have...
...Vermont Legalize It? College presidents from nearly 100 U.S. universities, including Duke, Tufts and Texas A&M, have signed a petition to lower the national drinking age, saying current laws encourage a culture of clandestine binge-drinking among students younger than 21. Known as the Amethyst Initiative, the coalition plans to run national ads calling for a debate among lawmakers. Members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, however, say lowering the drinking age would only lead to more fatal car accidents...
...rushed the bandstand. The swing era had begun, and Benny, then and thereafter, was its king. In 1937, he earned $125,000, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt received $50,000; like Babe Ruth, he was having a better year. In | 1938, the Goodman band (along with players from the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands, including Basie) played its unprecedented, historic date in Carnegie Hall, moving jazz up the social as well as the musical scale. Just before he went on, Goodman was asked how long an intermission he wanted. ''I don't know,'' he replied. ''How much does Toscanini...
Onstage, the natty-tailored, balding guy on vibes is jazz arranger Mulatu Astatqé, who once played with Duke Ellington. The priest-like one in the robes is Mahmoud Ahmed, who became Ethiopia's most popular singer, and was once the spitting image of the young Sam Cooke. Alèmayèhu Eshèté still has the yelp (if not quite the glorious pompadour) of his James Brown days. And, draped in his colorful military cape and now somewhat mangey, lion's mane crown, the shamanic Gétatchèw Mèkurya would catch...
...Publica to be considered a success, it will need to prove it can sustain a track record of high-profile, high-quality journalism and that it can survive past the Sandlers' initial three-year financial commitment. Such an achievement could create opportunities for more philanthropy-supported journalism. As Duke University economist James T. Hamilton puts it, "Newspapers used to be owned by people who were willing to trade off profits for the notion that they were doing the right thing." And with profits disappearing, doing the right thing is becoming increasingly important...