The topic couldn’t have been more timely. In a seminar room at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill last weekend, a group of scholars and current and retired military officers met to discuss “The American Media and Wartime Challenges.” Meanwhile, just down the hall, a bank of TVs was busily broadcasting reports from the war […]
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Making the gay-friendly grade
Ahhh, those college rankings. How they can sometimes, well … rankle. A recent list of the top “gay-friendly” business schools is no exception. In its second survey of 21 leading business schools, Aplomb Consulting, a national gay market-research firm (www.aplomb.com), gave UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School an “F.” When UNC’s failing grade was reported in the […]
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Enjoying the void
It’s late afternoon in downtown Durham. After days of gloom, the sky has finally cleared and the low-slung vista of chunky warehouses, auto shops and a few high-rise office buildings spreads to the horizon. My 5-year-old is carrying a paper bag full of old machine parts we’ve just bought at the Scrap Exchange art recycling […]
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Cigarette tax hike gaining steam
The Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, admits he rarely agrees with anything Democratic state Rep. Jennifer Weiss has to say. But this legislative session, Creech is wholeheartedly backing a bill that Weiss–one of the more liberal members of the General Assembly–has introduced: a measure that would raise […]
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Behind the pro-war barricades
It was hard to get close to the counter demonstrators at Saturday’s anti-war march in Raleigh. Police sealed off the eastern end of Hillsborough Street near the Capitol building, where at 1:45 p.m, about three dozen demonstrators were standing, across from thousands of anti-war protesters on the other side of Salisbury Street. Officers were scrutinizing […]
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A patriot who won’t fight
Last month, Itai Swirski, a lieutenant in the Israeli army reserves, went to report for duty at his local army headquarters and ended up in a military jail. Folks in the Triangle may remember Swirski from a speaking tour he did here last fall sponsored by the activist group Jews for A Just Peace North […]
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Price walks the walk against the war …
Last fall, after anti-war protestors staged a sit-in at his Chapel Hill office, U.S. Rep. David Price became a key backer of an alternative resolution on Iraq. The Spratt resolution would have required the Bush administration to get Congress to sign off on any military operations that lacked United Nations backing–and only after non-military options […]
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Remembering Roe
A recent Time magazine poll asked readers, “Is it too easy for a woman today to get an abortion?” The answer from 60 percent of respondents was, “Yes.” To pro-choice activists, such results reveal a frustrating lack of appreciation for the hard-fought right to safe, legal abortions. And they show an underlying lack of understanding […]
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The “Mexican Paradox”
Carmen may not realize it, but she defies conventional wisdom about motherhood. She’s lived in Durham for six years since immigrating from Mexico City and, last December, she gave birth to her third child, Carlos. It wasn’t until her second trimester of pregnancy that she signed up for prenatal care through the government-funded Baby Love […]
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Ranting in the dark
If you were driving through Northgate Park in Durham last Monday evening with your car windows rolled down, you might have heard something profane in the frigid air. I’m the culprit. You see, we had a teeny, tiny power outage and I got a teeny, tiny bit annoyed. OK, so this time the power was […]
