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 Pulchritude" is the one word I highlighted with a big, curious question mark in my freshman-year anthropology text, Patterns of Culture. |
 Standing up for science |
 Interpreting the Middle East, untangling the genome, commemorating the warriors |
 Financial-aid infusion, Katrina response, Nicholas Institute launch, Nasher Museum unveiling; Campus
Observer: Jeopardy! territory;; Syllabus: PPS 166/HIST 166A: The Insurgent South |
 Deconstructing bin Laden |
 A fictional look at lives in a traumatized culture, meditation on the enduring influence of World War II |
 Scholarships for alumni children,
honors for outstanding volunteers,
Career Corner: pursuing the passion;
Retrospective: museum origins; mini-profiles: an inimitable politician
in the South Carolina House, a mentor in underserved communities, a harmonious presence in weddings |
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"You just cannot justify massive building
and rebuilding near the most dangerous property in the United States.
It's a form of societal madness."
--Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., James
B. Duke professor emeritus of geology, on coastal development
in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in The Washington Post
"People stayed four, five
days with no food, no water, little girls getting
raped in bathrooms, dead bodies lying all over
the place. [The U.S. government] could have driven
trucks in. I mean, we drove a Hyundai."
--Duke sophomore Hans Buder,
one of three students who drove to New Orleans, posed as journalists
to enter the city, and personally evacuated seven people in
the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in Durham's Herald-Sun
"The first annual commemoration really
was a rallying point. Even the second was, but as it was used
as the jumping-off point for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq,
the rallying and unifying function of it became clouded by
the politics of war."
--Katherine
Pratt Ewing, professor of cultural anthro-pology,
on the changing significance of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks four years later, in The Washington
Post
"Apparently the near-unanimous
scientific consensus on the reality of global
warming is not enough for Elizabeth Dole and
Richard Burr."
--Nicholas
School dean William Schlesinger, on North Carolina's
senators voting against two pieces of legislation
that would have begun to address greenhouse
gas emissions at the federal level, in Raleigh's
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