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Late last month, possibly the most ambitious expansion yet of the educational commerce market took place when it was announced that WhataboutU.com had acquired the notes companies TakeNote and TarHeel Notes for an undisclosed amount of cash and equity stake in the new company. The expansion plan of WhataboutU involves distribution of college-related materials domestically as well as internationally through a network of global destination sites...
...Indiana has the "Hoosiers," which is actually defined as a native of Indiana. Similarly, a "Tarheel" is a native of North Carolina...
North Carolina primary voters made history last week by selecting Harvey Gantt as the first black ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by the Democratic Party in any state. But to Carter Wrenn, a top strategist for Republican Jesse Helms, Gantt's nomination merely confirmed that the Tarheel State remains under siege. Charged Wrenn: "What you have opposing Helms is another coalition of homosexuals and artists and pacifists and every other left-wing group...
North Carolina Coach Dean Smith utilized such tactics to build Tarheel dynasties in the 1970s. His strategies inspired the two biggest rule changes in college basketball in the last ten years, the three-point shot and the 45-second shotclock...
...athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil War as a disparaging term for folks from the Carolina pine forests...