April 8, 2003

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Tuesday, April 8, 2003

The Chronicle

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98, No. 131

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

B-school

enlarges MBA class By

KEVIN LEES

The Chronicle

An

of the business

expansion

school’s

master’s of business administration class is

padding

a

down year for applications

to the school’s

higher-end

programs.

Douglas Breeden, dean of the Fuqua School of Business,

that the deci-

said

sion

to

add

65

to

the

students

MBA

daytime

has

program

worked out well ROMEO GACAD/AFP

and

that

school

the

has

not

AMERICANTROOPS park their M1 Abrams tank outside

day.

lowered its stan-

Allied forces took control of three

one

of

President Saddam Hussein’s

Iraqi

in the

presidential palaces

Baghdad

in

area

an

effort to

palaces

secure

the

the

near

International Airport Mon-

Baghdad

city.

dards for admission.

He

that

the

move

helped

bal-

has

Douglas Breeden

ance

decline

in

applications

added

U.S. aims for Saddam in

to the

school’s

from

what

Breeden

students

102

this

estimated

year

a

class of about 75 next year.

“We’re those

seeing

decline

a

applications,”

some

kind of

because

it’s

insulated

hurting from the decline tive MBA

us

sec-

from

in the Execu-

program.” financial

the

Specifically,

forces in

shock

of

lower applications to the Global Execu-

CITY

on

page 7

military

Iraq dropped four bombs late in

an

to kill

attempt

Saddam

and

Military cials

said

pound,

national

guided

what one official called “a huge smoking

hole,” but

it

inside at

the time

was

injured

was

or

telligence

still unclear who or

whether

was

report

that

one

on an

in-

said

official

Saddam in

But other

cautious,

were

gather

to

family

would

one

allow

night

in

The

passed

Monday

into

settled

the

Palace in the center of their

plan

U.S.

Air

tugs

and

pulls

a

complexity

like

Duke Clinical

of

medical

unprecedented

crobiology, of the

Inside IllolUC

A

panel

across

rent

of

the

professors globe

reparations

and

discussed the

compared

history

of

reparations

these instances to the

cur-

debate in the United States. See page 3

The Durham a

new

City

zoning

See page 3

Council

district

of molecular

more

approved

covering

and

Institute

Policy

and

an

genetics

of

new

chairs.

made up of two

fields

its focus?

keep

to form

structure

a

research

centers,

within

faculty

si-

research

concentrating

the

re-

and

genetics

department, which Nevins Instead

the

of

symbolizing

a

department has only foris

occurring everywhere

in the Medical Center, Nevins said. At

the

same

Medicine’s are

courses

a

time,

School

the

curriculum

planned dissolving

and

of

revi-

integrating

traditionally divided along de-

partment

merger

problem:

serious

a

lines.

departmental

“[Education!

now

structure,”

is in

said

Dr.

genetics and micro-

ordinance and

page 6

formed molecular

microbiology

sions

and mi-

contemplating the

four

was

dispersing

now

the

James B. Duke

than two years ago, for

colleges

around

malized what

for

cleanly divided by discipline.

was

answer

revolution,

Research Institute—that

departments

biology

the

Joseph Nevins,

professor

The

and

dras-

collaboration—increasingly

Genome Sciences

When

on

department

previously disparate

cently

forcing

a

multaneously

to research-

under the official stamp of University-

cannot be

See IRAQ

care,

within the Medical Center

centers

the

Burridge,

Brian

How could

focused centers and undergoing

wide

the

unsuc-

prevent widespread looting.

ample, he anticipated

is

that

through

departments

tic shift in purpose.

amounts of

to

Marshal

The Chronicle

The growing

residents

patrol

to define mission

quietly ceding territory

research

incident

MIKE MILLER

to the varied

departments

where

Basra,”

without

attacks

of research demands and patient

are

in

Baghdad, saying

struggle Adapting

under

longer

no

300-man British

a

cessfully

Med Center

By

finished

walked

Republican

conduct

to

was

was

markets of the old city and tried

Monday,

Baghdad

central

second-

Iraq’s

The British commander in the Persian

cheered

was

Command in Qatar,

to Central

that

reported

Gulf declared that “the Baathist regime is

information

British

government. Monday,

the control of the Iraqi government.

Washington. intelligence

for members of

searching

largest city, Basra,

which authorized the strike. In

forces

defenders and min-

city’s

while

istries

the Iraqi

won-

place.

said

official

military

a

the

against

fashionable suburban area of the

a

city,

troops

made based

they

meeting.

The strike took place in Mansour dis-

anyone

killed.

was

the

had left

bombs

said

whether

dering

trict, offi-

security

that the four two-thousand

satellite

would be at the

officials

officials said in

Washington Monday night.

The strike See FUQUA

US.

Hussein, administration

good

about bringing in an extra daytime

tion,

of

said.

Breeden

“Frankly, we’re all feeling

KUWAIT

Monday in

indicated that both Saddam and his two

York Times News Service sons

to

would be

PATRICK TYLER

By New

Global Executive MBA program, which went

Baghdad

sharper

a

creating

universities.

See DEPARTMENTS

ex-

The more

Institute for Care at the End than 100 candidates for its

doctors,

nurses

and

theologians.

of

on

page 7

Life

has identified

director spot, See page 4

including


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