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Ten to watch

That's right kids, TV is back at it for the fifth straight year, with a sneak preview of what are sure to be the hottest topics on campus in the next year. There's something for everyone, from the...


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BEYOND BURKAS

My hotel room is chilled to a crisp, cool 23 degrees Celsius, but sometimes in the evening I like to open my window anyway.


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A Season of Change

Somewhere in the two-minute walk from the season's last press conference to the locker room in the lonesome bowels of the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Abby Waner finally felt the weight of another...


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The RUMOR MiLL!

Sources tell RM that former Today host and current lightweight evening news anchor Katie Couric was spotted sipping coffee and making sweet love to her Blackberry inside the great glass box.


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Colin Tierney

>>> With the official release of its first compilation album, Small Town Records has hit it big at Duke. But to the man behind the music, Duke's first student-run label has been building toward...


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VISITING SAUDI ARABIA

While waiting for Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 20 to depart from JFK, I was handed a black abaya and matching veil. I felt a mixture of emotions as amorphous as the formless garment, pulling the...


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CRAVING A CULTURE

Joan Didion is sitting across from me. One of the greatest living American writers is sitting across from me, and I have her full attention.


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GMAIL, JE T'AIME

My parents used to scoff at the amount of time I spent staring at a screen and pecking at a keyboard. They still do.


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Portrait of the Artist

Barkley Hendricks calls his camera his mechanical sketchbook. With a salt-and-pepper beard and black beret, the 62-year-old artist effortlessly embodies what it means to be cool.


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Finding a hoops haven

What's the best spot to watch our top-shelf men's and women's basketball teams battle the Tar Holes from Crapel Hill? Molly McGarrett rates the best joints in town. The Dillo Nothing goes better...