May - Jun 2011 Issue

 

 

  

 

 

 

 One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons shows a guy in outdoor garb with a rifle strapped over his shoulder, sitting at a bar and having friendly drinks with a deer on the barstool next to him.

 Thirty years ago, the campus was consumed with a planned presidential library, a project that would document (or embellish) the legacy of Richard Nixon LL.B. ’37.

 Duke alumnae are high-powered executives and stay-at-home moms, graduates of the Woman’s College and members of Generation Y. Regardless of their life and career paths, alumnae across the country are able to reconnect with their alma mater—and network with other Blue Devils—through Women’s Forum events sponsored by the Duke Alumni Association (DAA).

 Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate

 German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s 1781 masterwork on the nature of knowledge, Critique of Pure Reason, has a longstanding reputation for frustrating readers with its dense style and the intricacy of its ideas. When Andrew Janiak was first assigned to read the Critique during his own undergraduate days, he was flabbergasted.

 

   More Doris • Hoof 'n' Horn Memories • Tales of the Throne • Unions and Poverty More Doris

 Very few Hebrew manuscripts survive from the period between the Dead Sea Scrolls of the first and second century C.E. and the Aleppo Codex of the tenth century.

 It started with a vegetable vendor. That last insult and last extortion by a Tunisian municipal official was too much for twenty-six- year-old Mohammed Bouazizi. He set himself aflame.

You remember it, don’t you? That exhilarated, exhausted, can’t-believe-it’s-over feeling you had when you realized your undergraduate college experience was drawing to a close. One last paper completed. The final exam submitted.

  In the last Sunday in August 1981, The New York Times Week in Review section captured a controversy in its headline, “Nixon Library: Duke’s Dilemma.” According to the article, “If ever a man was without honor in his own alma mater, it’s Richard M. Nixon. Indeed, Duke University, whose law school class of 1937 included the President-to-be, seems to have made rebuking Mr. Nixon a habit.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Islamic society flourished for much of its first half-millennium, but today, Muslim economies worldwide lag behind the West in many basic ways: There are few large private companies and sophisticated financial exchanges, and massive unemployment among youth plagues a large number of countries.Some have suggested that geography, colonialism,

 Renewed purpose: yesterday’s water tower,

 

 

 

 

 

 Nancy MacLean Arts & Sciences Professor of history

 Philip Bennett, the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of journalism and public policy, will join the PBS investigative documentary series Frontline in the newly created role of managing editor.