UNC has announced that Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, who helped defeat apartheid in South Africa, and led the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will deliver the university’s 2009 commencement speech. Chancellor Holden Thorp, who officially chose Tutu following the recommendation of a university selection committee, accurately described the pick as a “slam dunk.” The Daily […]
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Erick Daniels freed
Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson dismissed all charges against Erick Daniels, who has served seven years in prison for a robbery that he did not commit. In 2001, a jury convicted Daniels of robbing and burglarizing the home of Ruth Brown, a police department employee; a judge sentenced Daniels to 10 to 14 years […]
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Elon Poll emphasizes N.C. voters’ opinions over choices for President
In an Elon University Poll released today, Barack Obama trails John Mcain by 5.3 percentage points in North Carolina, just beyond a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points. However, this data is based on a poll question that asked respondents if they would vote for the “Democratic party” or “Republican party” in the upcoming […]
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Obama calls out McCain for lying in Spanish
Many have wondered when Barack Obama would strike back against John McCain’s truth-stretching political ads, which have alternately painted Obama as a celebrity, a pervert and–most recently–an opponent of immigration reform. Earlier this week, Obama released an ad that takes bits of quotes from the media, and ends with, “It seems deception is all he […]
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WSJ: U.S. seizes control of AIG
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. government has taken over an 80 percent equity stake in American International Group, Inc., one of the world’s largest insurers, in exchange for providing the company an $85 billion dollar bailout. In a company press release, AIG writes, “In return for providing this essential support, American […]
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What a difference a lede makes
First, from the Herald-Sun story (reg. required) on the opening gala for A Taste FOR Durham’s Future, the quasi-governmental committee lobbying for a 1-percent meals tax to fund a minor-league baseball museum, and other civil projects: If the movers and shakers who gathered Tuesday afternoon accurately reflected the voice of the people, then the proposed […]
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DPAC to host Parisian ex-pat for night of culture
That’s right. Raleigh’s hometown hero, David Sedaris–who, of late, has struggled to come up with something funny about living in Paris–returns to the state of his youth, for an April 11 show at the Durham Performing Arts Center. It just goes to show: you can look homeward, but you can never kill the rooster.
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McCain-Palin ticket gets its earmarks checked
Over the weekend, several major news organizations–including the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal–published lengthy investigations into Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska. The results may harm Palin’s cultivated image as a fiscal conservative and reformer of the “good ol’ boy” system in politics. They also direcly […]
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John McCain, el mentiroso
We’ve been following John McCain’s misleading, and factually inaccurate, claims for awhile now, so this shouldn’t come as a sorpresa: He’s also lying in Spanish. In a new Spanish-language campaign ad, a narrator says that “Obama and his allies in Congress say they are on the side of immigrants,” while an image of hopeful looking […]
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McCain grilled, AP steps up reporting
In his interview today with “The View,” John McCain continued to lie about the Bridge to Nowhere, and stood by two ads that are “misleading and factually inaccurate,” AP reports. The wire report, which counters several of McCain’s lies with good old fashioned facts, is perhaps the news agency’s most scathing assessment of the McCain-Palin […]
