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Departments
 Thanks to electronic communications, the world, potentially, has become an extended classroom.
At Duke, one boundary-pusher is Dan Ariely Ph.D. '98, a behavioral economist profiled in this issue. |
 Mendacity and the memoir |
 Demonstrating faith, banding together, celebrating genius |
Campus expansion,
sugar-cane exchanges,
sleep psychology,
Sports: from playing field to medical school;
Q&A: an agrarian reading of the Bible ;
Campus Observer: better living through the Smart Home |
 Lewis and Clark and the natural world, Starbucks and stock-market vagaries |
Refurbishing a reading room in Washington,
honoring a historian's contributions,
advising on life after graduation,
Career Corner: brand recognition;
Retrospective: engineering women;
mini-profiles: sustainable-housing designer,
missile-defense envoy,
personal-fitness guru |
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"At Goldman Sachs, there was a clear process for decision-making.... Everyone wanted the firm to be successful for the long term.... Here, it's not as clear. Some people have different perspectives. Some people need to get re-elected."
—Robert Steel '73, chair of Duke's board of trustees and former vice chair of Goldman Sachs & Co., on his job as undersecretary of the treasury, in The Washington Post
"They've succeeded in taking a commodity that's the perfect currency for warlords and making it reflect values like love and purity and timelessness."
—Barak Richman, an associate professor of law who studies the diamond industry, on the De Beers company, in the Los Angeles Times
"Even George Washington hated the press. I wasn't covering him."
—Helen Thomas, eighty-seven-year-old veteran White House correspondent, during a talk in Reynolds Theater |
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