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http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/durham/4-1181531.cfm Dzau balances duties, science By Neil Offen : The Herald-Sun noffen@heraldsun.com Jul 13, 2009 Bookmark and Share This is the second in a two-part series of articles profiling Victor Dzau, head of Duke University Health System. DURHAM -- Victor Dzau doesn't get a lot of sleep at night. Maybe four or five hours, he says with a big laugh. It's not surprising. Dzau is the Duke University chancellor for health affairs and chairman and chief executive officer of Duke University Health System. For the past five years, since coming here from Harvard University, he has been at the helm of a $3 billion operation that employs thousands of people. He is, among other tasks, responsible for three separate hospitals, dozens of clinics scattered across the region and two medical schools -- one of them in Asia. He is also a working scientist. Dzau specializes in cardiovascular translational research -- that is, turning basic scientific discoveries into practical applications that benefit patients with heart and vascular disease. The Dzau lab -- formally, the Genomic and Molecular Vascular Biology Lab -- focuses on the molecular and genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and the development of new gene-based therapies, such as those preventing tissue damage from heart attack. While Dzau acknowledges that his "primary job" is to serve Duke and Durham, he also says it's important for him to remain actively engaged in scientific work. "It's important for me to have diversification in what I do," he said recently. "It's important to learn and think about new things. My research helps me in being creative and in being able to understand what people go through in their research. It's part and parcel of being innovative, being entrepreneurial." Dzau estimates that he spends, on a weekly basis, about six hours in the lab. "It's not half days, you understand," he said. "It's two hours here, maybe three hours there. I fit it in when I can." But even when he is not physically there, he's there. "I'm always thinking about the lab," Dzau said. "I'm always in communication with the lab. E-mail is great. Electronic communication is great. I continue to interact with my colleagues in the lab, I continue to mentor them. I help them, and I have people in the lab who can help me." His main job though, he knows, is the administrative one, but he said he is able to balance the two competing calls on his time. "I really think I know how to balance it," Dzau said. "I still have National Institutes of Health funding and people still recognize me as a pretty good scientist. By my being able to bring science to administration and health care, it actually completes the continuum." Getting out of the lab, he thinks, would be a risk. "I think it's the biggest error in medicine -- scientists over here, doctors over there, they don't talk to each other. But when you talk to each other, you get new ideas, you get new discoveries, you get understanding." To maintain the balance, Dzau arrives at his office in Davison Hall by around 7 in the morning and doesn't leave until 7:30 at night -- although, he says, that's not the end of his working day, since he usually has a working dinner after that. The only thing that interrupts his schedule, he acknowledges, is Duke basketball. "If they're playing, I'm there," Dzau said. "You can see me on TV, we're right under the basket. I'm a fanatic. Harvard had nothing like this." |
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http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/durham/4-1181542.cfm Pauli Murray Project highlights race relations in Durham BY JOHN MCCANN : The Herald-Sun jmccann@heraldsun.com Jul 13, 2009 Bookmark and Share DURHAM -- This city's motto is "Good Things Are Happening in Durham." Duke University instructor Barbara Lau doesn't deny that. But it's not all good around here, she said. "I think the Pauli Murray Project is about interrogating that story," Lau told a group gathered on Sunday in a room at First Presbyterian Church before the Rev. Joe Harvard led his congregation in the morning worship service. Murray in 1977 became the first black woman to get ordained in the Episcopal church. Harvard mentioned talk in the Episcopal church of elevating Murray to a saint. Murray in life was, along with being an Episcopal priest, a lawyer, a historian, a teacher and a poet. There are five murals bearing her likeness throughout Durham. She was raised here, on Carroll Street, in the West End community. And it was in Durham where Murray -- she was black, white and Native American -- watched black people get treated with dignity, and she saw them get trampled on like dirt, too, Lau said. Murray was denied admission to institutions of higher learning because of both race and gender. Which all combines to make Murray an apt lens through which the people of Durham can look at themselves, said Lau, who heads up the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center. The Pauli Murray Project is about getting people to read Murray's book, "Proud Shoes." The book is about Murray's grandparents and their struggles with racial prejudice. But Lau would tell you that book tells Durham's story, too. When the drama was unfolding about Duke lacrosse players supposedly raping a black stripper, outsiders started questioning Durham's black-white relations. But many around here closed ranks around the idea that black people and white people in this city have no major beef with each other. Yet Lau told those at First Presbyterian to think about what happens around here when it comes to public policy -- black folks want what they want, and white folks want what they want, she suggested. The Pauli Murray Project can get at the root of that, Lau said. She wants people to form groups to discuss "Proud Shoes." Learn more about that by contacting Lau at balau@duke.edu or (919) 613-6167. It's about activating history for the purpose of social change and reconciliation, Lau said. But the effectiveness of the Pauli Murray Project depends on the kind of energy the community brings to the discussion table, she said. Murray was born in Baltimore in 1910. Unable to beat cancer, she died in 1985 in Pittsburgh. |
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http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/durham/4-1181541.cfm Will McNair death affect decisions? BY JOHN MCCANN : The Herald-Sun jmccann@heraldsun.com Jul 13, 2009 Bookmark and Share DURHAM -- Sitting by the judges when drama unfolds inside the Durham County Judicial Building, the deputy clerks in Superior Court have seen and heard stuff that rises close to the level of what recently transpired with the killing of retired NFL quarterback Steve McNair. McNair was shot by Sahel Kazemi, a 20-year-old woman with whom he had been having an affair. She then turned the gun on herself. But what makes an affair turn into a murder-suicide? And will what happened with the McNair situation keep others from cheating? "Women act off emotion," said deputy clerk Keshia Perry-Foxx. Kazemi's youth also may have come into play -- an older woman in the same situation likely wouldn't have reacted so violently, she said. Perry-Foxx, referencing the SUV McNair got for Kazemi, said, "She was greedy." Or crazy, deputy clerk Vicky Hunt suggested. There was a unanimous verdict among the deputy clerks interviewed for this story that the McNair affair won't keep men from cheating. Durham-based clinical psychologist Jennifer Rounds-Bryant suggested that particularly applies to professional male athletes. "People in power rarely believe the regular rules apply to them," Rounds-Bryant said. NBA veteran Jerry Stackhouse said not every guy in professional sports is out there cheating. But when it happens, it's more or less an ego thing that comes with the territory. "It's hard for you not to feel invincible," Stackhouse said recently at N.C. Central University's McLendon-McDougald Gymnasium, where a summer league he and his childhood friends organized is going on until August. That summer league has NBA players and college players you've either seen or will see on TV in the coming months. And those players either have faced or will face pressures from the opposite sex, and doing the right thing in those situations will be a challenge, Stackhouse said. "A lot of things are thrown at you, and people cater to you," said Stackhouse, who added that he knows what it is to have that feeling of invincibility that comes from being rich and famous. "It's natural." A pro athlete can be married and have four kids, and beautiful women still will come on to him, he said. "With a man's ego, wouldn't that make him feel he's invincible?" Stackhouse asked. "No matter how well you're raised, you're still going to have tough decisions to make, and you're not always going to make the right decision. And that's just gonna happen through the course of life. And obviously, Steve made a decision that cost him his life." Rounds-Bryant suspects Kazemi was hoping to settle down with McNair. "She was looking for someone to upgrade her," she said. Rounds-Bryant said Kazemi likely did what she did due to feeling insecure about the relationship. But the psychologist puts the blame on McNair, because he, not his mistress, had a commitment to his wife. "He is a 36-year-old man going to mess around with a 20-year-old girl," Rounds-Bryant said. Stackhouse said he rubbed elbows with McNair on a couple of occasions. He hopes people will learn from the tragedy. "Anybody in that situation would have to kind of really take a hard look at what's going on if they're involved in that type of activity," he said. |
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http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/durham/4-1181538.cfm Police probe man's killing : The Herald-Sun Jul 13, 2009 Bookmark and Share DURHAM -- The Police Department is investigating a Sunday-morning homicide. When officers responded on Sunday shortly after 11 a.m. to a call about cardiac arrest at 617 Red Cedar Circle, they found the body of William Burroughs, 64, who lived there. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No charges have been filed, but investigators are following several leads. Anyone with information about the killing is asked to call Investigator S. Pate at (919) 560-4440, ext. 29332, or CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases, and callers never have to identify themselves. |
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| abb | Jul 13 2009, 05:08 AM Post #5 |
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http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/ Monday, July 13, 2009 Checking in with the Group A recent issue of Duke Magazine featured three members of the Group of 88 showing that critical self-reflection is not a hallmark of Group scholarship. The first essay—coupled with a bizarre photograph—came from Karla Holloway, identified as “James B. Duke Professor of English and professor of law.” (Holloway is the very rare member of an elite law school’s faculty who does not possess a J.D.) Holloway’s essay is a paean to the right to privacy. Writes she, The right to privacy that allows us to associate our homes with sanctuary and that places the highest value on an "inviolable personhood"—a nineteenth-century notion of "the right to be let alone"—is a right we still understand and desire today. But in twenty-five years, I suspect that we will barely recognize how public—and indeed how violated—our inviolable personhood has become. In fact, we have encouraged some of this slippage. The threat of terrorism has been enough to persuade us to accept warrantless searches. And when these searches became virtual in the form of warrantless wire-tapping, it seemed merely a change of venue rather than a loss of constitutional rights. In the battle between privacy and national security, the nation followed its fears. Holloway also expresses grave concern about how DNA—even when given up voluntarily—can cause a loss of privacy. “As the science advances, the material you sent in for one purpose may end up being used for something entirely different—from medical research for the public good to tracking down a suspected criminal in your family, using the very genetic markers you made available for discovery.” Is this the same Karla Holloway who couldn’t be bothered when a local judge demanded that some Duke students who weren’t even in Durham County the night of an alleged crime had to turn over their DNA, under force of compulsion, to local authorities? We all know how Holloway responded to that loss of privacy—she signed onto the Group of 88’s statement, proclaiming that something had “happened” to the accuser and thanking protesters who had (in another seeming violation of privacy) blanketed the campus with “wanted” photos of the lacrosse players. You’d think that having seen this remarkable transgression of privacy rights, occurring to students at her own institution, might have caused Prof. Holloway to reflect on her part in events of 2006 and 2007. But it appears that for the ”James B. Duke Professor of English and professor of law,” some invasions of privacy aren’t much of a problem. ----------------------- Duke Magazine also brought to alumni the insights of Group of 88’er Paula McClain. McClain, who offers a variety of courses on race and American politics but seemingly teaches nothing else, cautioned that the election of Barack Obama does not signal “the end of issues of race or racism in the U.S.” McClain concedes that, yes, the African-American Obama received a higher percentage of the white vote than did the white John Kerry. And she also notes that he carried a majority of the vote from younger whites. But these facts, she cautions, shouldn’t detract from Victimology 101, “because so many areas of structural inequality in the U.S. have existed for so long.” How should this “structural inequality” be addressed? McClain doesn’t say, although she implies support for a continued racial preferences scheme coupled with government assistance to minorities. And even if Obama did everything she wanted, the Group of 88’er asserted that “much would remain to be done after he leaves office.” McClain concluded with an off-the-wall comment: “As the nation becomes increasingly multiracial over the next twenty-five years, the imperative to confront these inequities will be even more important if the nation is to continue moving forward.” Of course, “as the nation becomes increasingly multiracial,” the racial preferences system will almost certainly become harder to sustain. To take the most clear-cut example—higher education admissions—the testing data suggests that African-Americans benefit from “diversity” admissions primarily at the expense not of whites but of Asian-Americans. How would this problem be addressed in the “increasingly multiracial” United States? McClain doesn’t seem interested in exploring the matter. ------------------- Duke Magazine readers also got to hear from Cathy Davidson (shown, like Holloway, in a somewhat peculiar photograph). In a passage that could have applied to her fellow Group of 88’ers, Davidson maintained, “Given the ever-increasing rapidity and magnitude of change on a global scale, we all need to master the precious and formidable skill of being able to stop in our tracks, discard the road map that has failed us, and try a different route on the unpredictable journey ahead.” Her essay mostly consists of complaints that good grades don’t predict future success and that universities don’t have enough “interdisciplinary” offerings (which, freed from even the limited constraints of disciplinary bounds, are particularly appealing for the politically correct). The time has come, writes Davidson, for “radical educational transformation.” Of course. ------------------- Davidson, McClain, and Holloway would be well-served by reading an essay published last week by Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, whose work I have cited on other occasions in the blog. The title could be a description of the Group of 88: “To become an extremist, hang around with people you agree with.” As Sunstein notes, research shows that “much of the time groups of people end up thinking and doing things that group members would never think or do on their own . . . when people find themselves in groups of like-minded types, they are especially likely to move to extremes. And when such groups include authorities who tell group members what to do, or who put them into certain social roles, very bad things can happen.“ What explains group polarization? According to Sunstein, the key “involves the exchange of new information. Group polarisation often occurs because people are telling one another what they know, and what they know is skewed in a predictable direction. When they listen to each other, they move.” Applied to the Duke case: In the race/class/gender world of the Group of 88, where dissenting opinions are rarely if ever heard, the natural development was a movement to a position that was more extreme than what all but a handful of the Group of 88 (perhaps Wahneema Lubiano, Grant Farred, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) would have taken on their own. Again describing a phenomenon we saw with the Group of 88, Sunstein notes, “People tend to respond to the arguments made by other people — and the pool of arguments, in a group with a predisposition in a particular direction, will inevitably be skewed in the direction of the original predisposition.” The contrast: “Those who lack confidence and who are unsure what they should think tend to moderate their views. Suppose that you are asked what you think about some question on which you lack information. You are likely to avoid extremes. It is for this reason that cautious people, not knowing what to do, tend to choose some midpoint between the extremes. But if other people seem to share their views, people become more confident that they are correct.” As we saw with the lemming-like signatures to the “clarifying” letter, in which Group members proudly proclaimed they would never apologize, a certainty of their rightness characterized the Group throughout the case. 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| abb | Jul 13 2009, 05:16 AM Post #6 |
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http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/2009/07/13/another-divorce-related-child-sex-abuse-allegation-found-false/ Another divorce-related child sex abuse allegation found false By David Usher | Jul 13, 2009 In the 1980's, false child abuse allegations were the favorite control method feminists used to seize control of children. After the national debacles of the McMartin, Little Rascals day care case, and others outrageous cases, child abuse allegations began to backfire. One by one, we find out there were many other cases that were also false, where fathers were falsely convicted or railroaded into "Taking a nolo". Statistically, the natural father is the lowest risk group for child sexual abuse. The case of Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer is outrageous. He spend 20 years in prison. The prosecutor concealed medical exams showing that abuse did not occur. Interrogators badgered the children and bought ice cream to draw out the desired statements. Then-Gov Locke commuted his sentence in 2004. Now, the children back the father and are working on reversing the conviction. Clark County sheriff's detective Sharon Krause and the prosecutor who tried the original case should be penalized. This prosecutor crossed the same tripwires as Duke prosecutor Mike Nifong. His/her law license should be revoked. But now, we have a more dangerous problem. In the 1990's feminists switched to using false domestic violence allegations (which do not require programming a child to succeed). Thousands of fathers are imprisoned and have criminal records despite having done nothing. Thousands more have their families and life savings stolen in civil proceedings which do not have reasonable due-process protections. |
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| abb | Jul 13 2009, 05:18 AM Post #7 |
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http://e-lee.blogspot.com/2009/07/youve-been-nifonged.html You’ve been “NIFONGED”! You’ve been “NIFONGED”! Catchy phrase, isn’t it? Actually, if you’re reading this and you’re from NC, well, really anywhere in the US, you should know exactly what I’m referring to. Rest assured this isn’t going to be just another column on the gross injustice directed toward Duke’s Lacrosse team. You know how it ended. And to think some of our media elites still stand by the man. Amazing. That being said: DISCLAIMER: This is a long one! So I invite you to grab some java, for me this morning it’s Caribou Blend I found at Lowes Foods and it’s good. Curl up in your pajamas or take a coffee break at the office. And let’s review the facts. This may take awhile but believe it or not, the relevance of this case can be applied to what is going on in Washington and how hood-winked they believe you are! Let’s recap. A few years ago, Mike Nifong, the now defunct District Attorney, from Durham, NC, made headlines when Crystal Mangum, an exotic dancer, claimed she was gang-raped by Duke’s Lacrosse team. Nifong was up for re-election and he jumped on this case to get a name. I remember the “well-played” video all too well of where he showed on national TV of how she was held. He enraged communities by suggesting the “incident” was racially motivated. Hmmm. The problem was he had never talked with her. Actually, we found out very late in the case, it wasn’t until months later after he knew he was in trouble, that Nifong even bothered to meet with Crystal. How could he make those assumptions without looking at the evidence? Under oath, the DNA expert spilled the beans. He and Nifong had conspired to withhold exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated the three accused immediately. Didn’t Nifong take an oath to pursue justice? When Roy Cooper, NC Attorney General, proclaimed the injustice and declared Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann innocent, he said the young lady was sick, unstable. Cooper declared Nifong was a “rogue” prosecutor (http://www.wral.com/). Nifong has since been disbarred, jailed, and now he’s bankrupt. And the boys? They will live with the scars from this for life, never to escape it. Now, where I am going with this? What does “nifonged” mean? Glad you asked. According to Urban dictionary, (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nifonged): "Nifonged describes the railroading or harming of a person with no justifiable cause, except for one's own gain. It is someone being taken advantage of unfairly by someone without scruples or morals." This term is now frequently used to describe cases where the prosecutor just abandons his/her principles and forgets in America a defendent is suppose to be "innocent until proven guilty". Flashback: Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, “Cap and Trade”, Stimulus I….need I go on? Our “elected” officials “nifong” us all the time. Like Mike, they withhold evidence: Do you know what’s in “cap and trade”? The media won't disperse the facts. So go to http://www.heritage.org/ and find the truth. They also make false assumptions without researching and knowing facts (Etheridge and at least 200+ others didn’t even read the 1500 page Cap and Trade bill but believe it’s necessary to enact). And then, just to add fuel to the fire, they get on the national stage and use fear tactics to scare us and incite anger among the people so they will eventually believe the “story” that government is the answer to all our woes. Here’s a prime example from Saturday’s Yahoo! news(http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090711/sc_mcclatchy/3269899): "WASHINGTON — If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more. " Color me happy. Senator Boxer – please shut up! We already have floods, hurricanes, fires (CA will not let natural burns occur), droughts, etc. Sure we need to be conservative and take care of the earth. But why does government believe they must force us to do something moral by imposing on our freedoms and taking our money? Don’t they teach them in those Ivy League schools you can never legislate morality? And for goodness sakes, what is a law requiring me to have only CFL bulbs in my house by 2010 going to do for flooding? Thank you George W. Bush for that one. Last I checked, God promised in Genesis the world wouldn’t be destroyed by a flood ever again. (Might be time for another cup of java. There’s more to be said….) Now that you are “refreshed”, what should really scare you is what was “withheld” from the public by our chosen ones and the media. Along with an increase in EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) – wait, I thought this was about energy and conservation? Really? Find the summary here: http://wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree/2009/07/cap-and-trade-extras.html. For instance in this bill, SEC. 201. GREATER ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDING CODES (download your copy at http://bit.ly/nOeu2), there is a new national building code standard with you guessed it – a new Czar appointed by the President! Another government agency that will tell you if you can or if you cannot, sell your home or buy the one you’ve been dreaming about. You mean Sheila, they can come in my house and tell me I can’t sell it if my microwave isn’t “energy efficient” according to the rules? If my roofing material doesn’t produce a cool roof? Yep. Can you feel another financial meltdown coming if passed? I do not care what Obama says – there is no way 95% of Americans won’t have a tax increase if this passes the Senate. For this conservative, I’ve had enough. But HR 2454 scares me. This one has me already making energy efficient changes in my home. Because when the government gets involved, competition will be severely limited, and prices for appliances, windows, etc will jack up! It’s called supply and demand! Folks, this isn’t about climate control! It’s about power. It’s about taking away your freedoms. It’s about destroying the housing market, the financial markets, and your life as it is today. It’s about how Congress “Nifong’s” us every day by using scare tactics, claiming false assumptions, and hiding the truth. And we, like the Duke Lacrosse players, will live with the scars from this legislation for the rest of our lives, never to escape it. |
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| abb | Jul 13 2009, 05:21 AM Post #8 |
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http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/07/12/duke-ii/ Duke II? By Robert Franklin, Esq. | Jul 12, 2009 Here's a fine article on a Ghanian soccer star who's doing six years for rape in California (ESPN, 7/13/09). Eric Frimpong is, according to everyone who knows him, the best of men. He's cheerful, optimistic, kind and entirely incapable of harming another person. He's the type of man who makes the people around him happier and more upbeat. Even his fellow prisoners say so. Into the bargain, he's a heckuva soccer player. In 2007, he led little-known UC Santa Barbara to the collegiate men's soccer championship over perennial powerhouse UCLA. He was headed to a professional career in the North American Soccer League. But as the article shows, none of that was enough to keep him from being accused and convicted of rape. Neither was the absence of his DNA on or in his accuser. Neither was the presence of her boyfriend's DNA. Neither was the fact that she was too drunk to remember what happened. Neither was the fact that the bite mark on her cheek matched the teeth of her boyfriend, but not Frimpong. Neither was the fact that the victim's boyfriend saw her walking with Frimpong that night and got jealous. But what the Duke III had, Frimpong lacked. The Lacrosse team men at Duke had such overwhelming proof of their innocence, the Attorney General of North Carolina eventually proclaimed it publicly. In Frimpong's case, he didn't have a rock-solid alibi. None of his friends could say for certain that he couldn't have been on the beach where the young woman was assaulted. And in the end, a zealous prosecutor, a victim with a motive to protect her boyfriend, an all-white community, a black defendant, an overconfident defense attorney and a judge who was a former DA, combined to put behind bars a man who looks innocent. Let's be clear. This is the way the American judicial system works. It's aimed at putting people in prison and does so with ruthless efficiency. Most of those people committed the illegal acts they're charged with. But that same system can be equally ruthless when an innocent person finds himself on the conveyor belt that begins with a charge, runs through court and ends in prison. The people it conveys to prison are overwhelmingly (93%) male and disproportionately black and hispanic. The Duke Lacrosse case was an extreme aberration. There, the facts and witnesses for the prosecution were so bad, and the resources at the disposal of the defendants were so great, that justice was actually served. The Eric Frimpongs of the world see a different side of justice in America. |
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| abb | Jul 13 2009, 05:22 AM Post #9 |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main4848039.shtml Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory? Lesley Stahl Reports On Flaws In Eyewitness Testimony That Lead To Wrong Convictions |
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| nyesq83 | Jul 13 2009, 07:34 AM Post #10 |
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Yes, many black people want revenge or reparations or a fast track to easy money - a mind-set caused by years of government-induced poverty, drugs, guns, and family dissolution. Many white people just want to get along. Many black AND many white people just want everyone to mind their own business, work hard, take care of family, take care of educational opportunities, and cooperate with and be considerate of others no matter who they are. |
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| chatham | Jul 13 2009, 08:15 AM Post #11 |
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IMO the only reason Duke Magazine published the articles by some of the loudest accusers of the Duke LAX students was to show to the Duke community how gentile and concerned they are about people and the injustices performed against them. What the articles really meant. NOW PLEASE DONATE MONEY THESE ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE. Edited by chatham, Jul 13 2009, 08:16 AM.
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| Acc Esq | Jul 13 2009, 11:15 AM Post #12 |
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Spot on. That was my exact reaction. |
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| ~J~ is in Wonderland | Jul 13 2009, 01:46 PM Post #13 |
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http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/state_judges_have_to_stay_home State judges have to stay home The lack of a budget has forced state court officials to order judges to stay home. North Carolina's elected Superior Court judges rotate on a circuit every six months. The idea is to avoid favoritism that might result from having a permanent judge in one district Administrative Office of the Courts Director John W. Smith has suspended the rotation and ordered judges to stay in their home judicial districts. Smith told judicial department employees in a memo that the agency has been granted enough money to make payroll for July. It has no guarantees beyond that. Our circumstances continue to deteriorate and the uncertainty about our future becomes more problematical for us each day that passes without a budget from the General Assembly. Smith said the court system will also begin to ration supplies. He urged employees to use e-mail instead of paper when possible. "Shipments and deliveries may be delayed depending upon the availability of funds or the ingenuity of our employees to arrange for the deliveries," he wrote. Other measures to cope with the budget crisis include: * Court-ordered fees for witnesses and experts will be paid, but may be delayed, Smith said. * Lawyers appointed to represent children in court proceedings may see payments interrupted. * Smith urged employees to avoid unnecessary travel. |
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| sdsgo | Jul 13 2009, 02:47 PM Post #14 |
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July 13, 2009 Rear Admiral Marsha Evans named acting LPGA commissioner; Carolyn Bivens resigns Posted at 11:30 AM by Anne Szeker | Categories: LPGA Tour The LPGA announced in a press release Monday that Rear Admiral Marsha J. Evans, U.S. Navy (retired) will serve as the player association's acting commissioner, effective immediately. Commissioner Carolyn Bivens also announced her resignation Monday. In addition to this appointment, the association also announced that Annika Sorenstam will become an advisor to the tour's board of directors. “Obviously, I will do everything possible to ensure that the LPGA remains the pre-eminent women’s sports association in the world,” Sorenstam said in a release from the tour. “I’m committed to getting up to speed quickly on the challenges facing the board right now, and will assist the LPGA in a number of ways both immediately and long-term.” LPGA board member Leslie Greis, as well as board members Juli Inkster, Helen Alfredsson and Bill Morton, will lead the executive search committee, with the help of the executive search firm Spencer Stuart. “We’ll soon have in place a commissioner to lead us into 2010 and beyond, but until then, it’s important that we immediately appoint an acting commissioner whom we know and trust,” Board of Directors Chairman Dawn Hudson said in the release. “As a board of players and independent directors, we wanted an acting commissioner with experience leading large organizations, one who appreciates and listens to our player members and tournament owners, understands sponsors and their challenges and needs, and has a track record that commands respect. We’re pleased that Marty Evans will be our acting commissioner, as she fits all the criteria necessary during these challenging economic times for sports leagues." During her career, Evans has held top positions at the American Red Cross and Girl Scouts of the USA. Most recently she has served on the Board of Directors of the LPGA. Source |
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| Kerri P. | Jul 13 2009, 03:40 PM Post #15 |
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Is there any relationship to Dave Evans? 
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