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CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—With most of the students gone home from “Carolina”—the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill??this quintessential college town, my home town, is usually pretty quiet in the summer. The lines in the grocery stores disappear, the waits for a table at the best restaurants dramatically decrease and the headache of finding a parking space downtown is temporarily relieved...
...master plan. And Carolina has reversed itself on a number of promises, including one made not to develop certain portions of land. The ultimate manifestation of this lack of respect came in late May, when a provision was placed in the state’s budget to remove Chapel Hill??s right to regulate any of the university’s development within the town. The provision was included as a result of secret discussions between top Carolina administrators and the majority leader of the North Carolina Senate, who is also a prominent member of Carolina?...
...very good at sitting down and discussing the ins and outs of an issue for hours when the issue warrants long discussion,” Rubin says. Equally importantly, Rubin says, “He got to be able to sit there—sometimes on Capitol Hill??even when the merits [of the discussion] would not warrant prolonged engagement. He was very diplomatic...