Duke in the News: March 6, 2006
Supreme Court Steps Into Medicare Rx Fight | Horowitz Returning to Duke With Sights on Faculty | Basketball as Religion, and more…
Monday, March 6, 2006
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SUPREME COURT STEPS INTO MEDICARE RX FIGHT
USA Today, March 4 -- Neil Siegel, a Duke law professor,
doubts the Supreme Court will take the unusual step of intervening
to resolve a dispute between states and the federal government over
the costly new Medicare prescription drug program. (The AP story
also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and more than 215 other news
sources.) ...
Full story
HOROWITZ RETURNING TO DUKE WITH SIGHTS ON FACULTY
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 6 -- Political
commentator David Horowitz's visit to Duke this week will be his
first sojourn onto a university campus since the release of his new
book, "The 101 Most Dangerous Academics In America." ... Full
story
BASKETBALL AS RELIGION
Bloomberg News, March 6 -- Will Blythe traces the origin
of the UNC-Duke rivalry in his book, "To Hate Like This Is to
Be Happy Forever." ... Full
story
--Also, News & Observer: Book Review -- A Fan's Notes --
Exploring the Passions and Legacies That FireCollege Basketball's
Greatest Rivalry ... Full
story
USA Today: Redick Feels the Heat as Fishbowl Career Nears End ...
Full story
News & Observer: Redick on Roster for Team USA ... Full
story
DUKE VALUES SUMMIT TOPICS BREAK NORM
(Durham) Herald-Sun, March 4 -- Evangelical Christian
activist Jim Wallis, speaking at Duke Chapel on Friday, says he
sees a new generation of prophets rising up across the country --
one concerned with poverty more than any other moral value. ... Full
story
--Also, News & Observer: Left Tries to Regain Religion ... Full
story
GETTING WARMER IN BID TO KILL TUMORS
The Boston Globe, March 6 -- Hyperthermia could turn out
to be among the most powerful anticancer weapons yet. Duke doctors
are studying one such approach. ...
Full story
OP-ED: DO WE WANT THIS NUCLEAR WASTE?
News & Observer, March 6 -- Lucy Roberts Henry, a
Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and a graduate student at Duke's
NicholasSchool of the Environment and Earth Sciences, says we
should be wary of nuclear power as long as the waste problem
remains unsolved.
Full
story
DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST BLASTS GOP
Herald-Sun, March 5 -- Democratic strategist James
Carville brought his bald-headed, quirky-faced brand of insightful
punditry and acerbic wit to Duke on Saturday. ... Full
story
ON THE AIR
Duke professor Tom Rankin at the Center for Documentary
Studies joined a discussion Monday on "The State of Things" about
the reliability of eyewitness accounts and photo line-ups for law
enforcement. Listen to a rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET on WUNC Radio or
to archived audio on the web. ... Details
