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With a convincing 3-1 win over the University of New Hampshire (UNH yesterday in Durham, Harvard (5-5, 3-1 Ivy) extended its winning streak to three games and reached the 500 mark for the first time since Sept. 22. Perhaps more importantly in the long run, a queen was born...
Such a convincing outcome came at the perfect time for a Crimson squad with four games coming up in the next week. It will try to even its record for the season when it faces off against New Hampshire in Durham today...
Terry Sanford, Duke University's president from 1969 to 1982, tried to build bridges between town and gown. He was the first Duke president to go to city hall, and on Sunday mornings he brought people from Durham to the campus for breakfast meetings. Duke's current president, Nan Keohane, has reached out even further. Since arriving in 1993, she has opened a Duke University office in downtown Durham and helped establish clinics in five city schools. Although the public University of North Carolina receives the bulk of government funding for indigent care in the city, Duke and Durham Regional...
Still, wary Durham residents are worried about Duke's ever expanding tentacles. The acquisition, completed in July, has caused some hard feelings among Durham Regional's staff physicians. They fear it will destroy Durham Regional's identity as the comfortable community hospital--and cut into their private practices. "The structure [of the partnership] has been developed, but we don't know how it is going to work," says Dr. Stuart Manning, president of the Durham Regional medical staff...
...scary moment during tonight's WCW Thunder wrestling program: a referee collapses and is rushed to the hospital. He's not part of the show. He's a football ref, and he's in a commercial touting University of North Carolina Health Care. Channel surf in Raleigh-Durham and you can see an artsy black-and-white ad featuring a country singer who doesn't have the usual complaints of "heartbreak"--brought to you by the WakeMed hospital's new Heart Center in Raleigh. Or a Duke ad--the sort of tasteful, care-focused spot you'd expect from...