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Amazon Prime’s ‘The Boys’ is a critique of superheroes and the media that creates them

By Ellenor Brown | September 14, 2019

“The Boys” is Amazon Prime Video’s latest contribution to the behemoth that is the superhero genre, a slightly grunge, antihero story that turns what audiences have come to know and expect from action on its head. Based on a comic book series of the same name, the show strikes a balance of amusing and serious critical portrayals of a massive corporation breeding celebrity superheroes.

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The awkward perfection of Netflix’s ‘Derry Girls’

By Kerry Rork | August 30, 2019

When “Derry Girls” first came out in 2018, I immediately binged the first season, enthralled by awkward and absurd lead actors finding themselves in the most ridiculous situations. To me, each half-hour episode captured a unique part of the teenage experience, particularly one wrought with the background violence of war and division. 

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Lessons on Middle East peace taught in ambushed bus

By Wendy Rosenberg | September 16, 1993

I dropped to the floor in horror and utter disbelief. The bus quaked with the will of the surging masses.

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Answers given for why Jack Coombs Field is historic

By Michael Robbins | April 28, 1993

The question, as it always is, is why?.

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Stereotyping should end on both sides

By Jeffrey Spang | April 21, 1993

I would like to preface this letter by acknowledging my association with the greek system through my involvement as a pledge of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

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The Road to Durham's Future

By Sarah McGill | March 1, 1993

On a still-sunny afternoon at Brightleaf Square, the chatter of drinking buddies spills from Satisfaction Restaurant and Bar.