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Letters: DMS Responds to Criticism
By Barbara Starbuck | April 19, 2004Duke University places a high value on improving accessibility campus-wide.
Duke University places a high value on improving accessibility campus-wide.
Once upon a time, in the land of Durham, in the dominion called Ninth Street, there lived a King.
The inside of the Great Hall's kitchen is a mess.
It's Friday the thirteenth, but Zannie Voss is all smiles.
The lone man stood and sometimes crouched on the sideline. The players kept their distance, as he had kept his distance from them.
As the Durham sky gets darker and darker on Thursday nights, the lights in the offices of the Wachovia mini-skyscraper off West Main Street turn off and the ones downstairs at Café PariZäde light up.
"As long as they are authentic expressions, I'm wedded to them," my favorite Duke professor announced the first day of class.
Emma Lazarus' words inscribed on Lady Liberty have welcomed immigrants to America's shores since the statue--a gift from the nation of France (yes, we were friends once)--was unveiled in 1886.
With an inviting smile that translates as ease in both our languages, Angélica, who is mature beyond her twenty-two years, settles into a seat beside me and her son's stroller.
he small cement bench surrounded by a crowd of black students sits under a tree adjacent to the Chapel Quadrangle.
St. Peter of the Chapel Quad Joe Martin decides who is worthy to enter the most sacred parking area on campus.
Class 608 explodes into the room with a whirlwind of mumbling, stumbling and wondering that only 12-year-olds can produce.
But that's not what she's thinking.
Phil Harvey sits in his office in rural Hillsborough, N.C., surrounded by the tools of his trade. His desk, like that of any other businessman, is cluttered with reports and memos.
Walking into the room feels like stepping onto a cover of the Duke admissions brochure. The green carpet, the assortment of salvaged used furniture, the retro-style posters that look like...
Dressed in navy athletic shorts and a jersey bearing a Duke No.