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Cookin' up understanding

If the old adage that a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach holds true, then perhaps the recent changes in the Merchants on Points program will cause a shift in cultural relationships...


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A call to future leaders

Growing up in the public schools of El Paso, Texas, Aurora Lora experienced first-hand the educational disparities that persist in our country.


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Balance and backlash

Last week, the Senate passed a bill that would make it significantly more difficult to file class-action lawsuits against companies.


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Little Bo Who?

Once upon a time there was a lamb. This lamb’s name was Mike. Ever since he was an even younger lamb, Mike had wanted to be a turtle.


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Love in the ruins

I have nothing to say about romance, so if that was reason you began reading, stop. I do have something to say about raucous parties off East Campus, which have gathered such infamy of late.


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Miss Miho

Miss Miho, what’s the area of a trapezoid?” I turned around quickly from passing out pencils to find Charlie, a jolly sixth grader, inquisitively staring at his workbook. Shoot.


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The v-word

Like many other young women, I am trying to define my own feminism. I wear lip-gloss. I think welfare reform declared a war on poor mothers. I like to cook for my boyfriend.


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Knowledge is a crappy power

Why do we educate ourselves? The majority of Duke students are fairly intelligent and have gone through a rigorous American education designed to battle the Communist threat.


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Apathy? Fine by me

It never fails. Pick up The Chronicle and open to the back—you’ll find some 19-year-old anxious to let you know his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the peace talks in Darfur.


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The case for design

Have you ever been in a class and thought that all this talk of natural selection and humans evolving through favorable mutations across generations may not be true, and that the complexity of life...


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The Duke/bin Laden connection

I would like to preface this column with the following: As a left-leaning independent who proudly thinks for himself, I personally hold Michael Moore in the utmost contempt.