Mar - Apr 1996 Issue

Friends in High Places: The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford By Douglas Frantz and David McKean. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. 464 pp. $24.95.

SOME EYE-OPENERS ABOUT SLEEP

CLUBS HOPPING Both Duke's president and its athletic teams were on the road this academic year, usually separately, but always attracting a large number of alumni. Club events were planned for each off-campus foray. In July, President Nannerl O. Keohane was the guest of honor for a London champagne river boat cruise on the Thames. The joint reception accommodated most of Keohane's academic ties: graduates and friends of not only Duke but Wellesley, where she was an u

Beyond the Birthing Room Monica Green by Bridget BooherA historian uncovers the role of women in medieval science and medicine, challenging the long-held assumptions about how knowledge was obtained and distributed in the Middle Ages.

Star Light, Star Bright? byRobert J. Bliwise As Bill Cochran sees it, there's a plodding routine to his plotting routine. But his grand-scale accounting is no ordinary effort: It takes him through barriers of time and space.

When View Meets Voice Publishing with an Edge by Stephen MartinRejecting celebrity, conflict, and sensationalism as themes, Double Take magazine is a collaboration between photographer Alex Harris and writer Robert Coles that instead celebrates original and overlooked ideas.

Ask The Expert With the presidential race, the North American Free Trade Agreement has become a rallying point for those who see international trade deals as bad for American workers. Is NAFTA in the national interest? NAFTA did not make it substantially easier to manufacture goods in Mexico and ship them to the United States. Mexico had long welcomed U.S. transplants; the United States had few barriers to the import of goods they produced. NAFTA did make it more attrac

How to get your ZZZZ's Sleep Therapy by Dennis MeredithA Duke sleep scientist helps our bleary-eyed correspondent reform his snoozing techniques and get his quota. That makes one insomniac down, 40 million to go.It's not t

Mar.-Apr. 1996How to get your ZZZZZZZZs by Dennis Meredith A Duke sleep scientist helps our bleary-eyed correspondent reform his snoozing techniques and get his quota; that makes one insomniac down, 40 million to goColor-Blind or Color-Conscious? by Bill Sasser

Color-Blind or Color-Conscious? Affirmative Action

Rider on the Storm Michael Orbach

FAITH AND A BRAVE HEART At the lowest of lows, writer Randall Wallace '71 didn't know if he could survive much longer, financially or emotionally. "I always believed, and had been taught to believe, that I could do anything I wanted to if I tried hard enough," he says. "And I was trying very, very hard and I wasn't getting anywhere."

THE ROOTS OF THE DEBATE

Mar.-Apr. 1996How to get your ZZZZZZZZs by Dennis Meredith A Duke sleep scientist helps our bleary-eyed correspondent reform his snoozing techniques and get his quota; that makes one insomniac down, 40 million to goColor-Blind or Color-Conscious? by Bill Sasser

Peripatetic President Paul Hardin by Georgann Eubanks"Going from private to public higher education, you trade a lot of worries about finance and whether tuition is too high for layers and layers of political accountability and bureaucracy."