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The No. 9 Blue Devils got their heads in the game Wednesday, scoring two header goals to defeat N.C. State, 2-1, in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championships in Germantown, Md. Duke (14-3-1) notched its first goal just under 22 minutes into the contest. Sophomore Mike Grella passed the ball back to Darrius Barnes N.CSTATE _L along the right DUKE 2 sideline, and the defender crossed the ball into the box, where senior captain Chris Loftus connected with a header into the lower left side of the net.

“It was a great ball by Darrins,” Loftus said. “He served a perfect ball. It went right over the guy’s head who was guarding me, and I was just able to hit it near post past the goalie.”

The Blue Devils battled a competitive Wolfpack (6-10-1) squad that was in a win-at-all-costs mentality, since a loss would eliminate the team not only from the tournament but also from a chance at an NCAA bid.

“They had to win this,” Duke head coach John Rennie said. “They really put everyinto to it. To win a e like that is always very, very hard.”

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As the final early applications stream in from high school seniors across the country who strove to meet the Nov. 1 deadline, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said preliminary application numbers are meeting expectations.

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The Blue Devils embrace Chris Loftus after his first-half goal put Duke up, 1-0,Wednesday afternoon.

State’s El-Hadj Cisse pounced on a scoring opportunity just 12 seconds into the period. The junior forward received a pass in the box and went one-on-one with goalie Justin Papadakis, ripping a shot to the left side of the net past the keeper to even the score.

“We just were not ready on the kickoff,” Rennie said. “We were not ready and

made a couple of mistakes, and they took advantage ofit.”

With 31 minutes of play remaining, Duke regained the lead on yet another header, this time from junior Michael Videira. The midfielder scored his goal off one of his six shots of the game.

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DUMAC shows Duke the money

Despite the recent lacrosse scandal and Duke’s transition to using only the Common Application, Guttentag said he anticipates the number of early applications to be similar to that of last year’s.

Though the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is confident in the strength of the applicant pool, some administrators said the University nonetheless has reservations about this year’s admissions.

“We have a little anxiety whether or how the lacrosse events will affect early applications,” Provost Peter Lange said.

Guttentag noted, however, that the incident has not significantly changed prospective students’ opinions.

“I think people may wonder whether all the news about Duke will have any significant effect on the student body, and I simply don’t think that will be the case,” he said. “What I hear from my staff traveling around the country, when they talk to students and when they talk with guidance SEE EARLY ADMITS ON PAGE 6

Firm’s aggressive investment strategy evaded hedge fundfall, brought endowment to top ofcollege ranks by

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If global hedge fund Amaranth’s collapse had occurred in April rather than September, Duke would have been among the investors watching $6 billion

Duke E.V.P.Tallman Trask called the performance of Duke's investment company "remarkable."

go up in smoke.

But thanks to careful monitoring of the hedge fund and canny foresight on the part ofDuke Management Company, the University managed to escape unscathed, DUMAC officials confirmed.

Duke’s initial 2003 investment of $2O million in the Connecticut-based hedge grew to a peak of $B5 million. But in June 2005, DUMAC financial managers began to liquidate the school’s assets in

Amaranth, receiving the last installment of the proceeds in May 2006—-just months before the hedge fund’s crash.

Avoiding the Amaranth disaster is just the latest example of the success DUMAC has enjoyed since its inception in 1990 as the independendy owned management firm that handles Duke’s investments.

DUMAC is responsible for investing $7.5 billion in long-term holdings, such as the University’s endowment and employee pension funds. During the past 10 years, the Duke endowment’s rate of investment return has been the second highest in the country among institutions SEE DUMAC ON PAGE 5

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Although summer tour numbers fell, Admissions predicts similar earlyapplication stats to past years.

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Kerry apologizes for flubbed joke

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush demanded an apology, but it was the Democrats who got Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry to cough one up.

“I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American,” offended by comments that politicians in both parties had deemed insulting to U.S. forces in Iraq, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate said Wednesday.

Six days before the election, Kerry said he wanted to avoid becoming a distraction in the battle for control of Congress. He added he sincerely regretted that his words

were “misinterpreted to imply anything negative about those in uniform.”

In a brief statement, Kerry attacked President Bush for a “failed security policy.”

Yet his apology, issued after prominent Democrats had urged him to cancel public appearances, was designed to quell a controversy that party leaders feared would stall their drive for big gains on Nov. 7.

Two days ago, Kerry stirred controversy when he told a group of California students that individuals who don’t study hard and do their homework would likely “get stuck in Iraq.”

Aides said the senator had mistakenly dropped one word from his prepared re-

marks, which originally read “you end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.”

In that context, they said, it was clear Kerry was referring to Bush, not to American troops.

Kerry beat a grudging retreat in his return to the national campaign spotlight.

Earlier, on the radio program “Imus in the Morning,” the Massachusetts senator said he was “sorry about a botched joke” about Bush.

He heaped praise on the troops, adamantly accused Republicans of twisting his words and said it was the commander in chief and his aides who “owe America an apology for this disaster in Iraq.”

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UNITED NATIONS Guatemala and Venezuela agreed to withdraw from the race for a seat on the U.N. Security Council and support Panama as a consensus candidate, Ecuador’s U.N. ambassador said Wednesday.

With the backing of these two countries, Panama’s election for a two-year term on the Security Council is virtually certain.

The announcement by Ambassador Diego Cordovez, who hosted two meetings Wednesday between the foreign ministers of Guatemala and Venezuela, ends a dead-

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The vodng became highly political because the United States supports Guatemala over leftist Venezuela, whose president is the fiercely anti-American Hugo Chavez.

With pressure mounting from Latin American countries to break the deadlock, Guatemalan Foreign Minister Gert Rosenthal and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro met Wednesday morning and again for two hours late Wednesday afternoon to discuss withdrawing from the race and supporting a third candidate.

At the end of the meeting, Cordovez made the announcement, saying, “The two candidates reached an agreement to step down, and they came up with Panama as a consensus candidate.”

He said Rosenthal and Maduro “will present Panama” to the 34 Latin American and Caribbean nations at a meeting Thursday for their approval.

The Dominican Republic had emerged as the leading candidate, so the choice of Panama was a surprise.

“It’s a country that unites South America and Central America,” Rosenthal said, explaining their selection.

Baghdad gunmen abducted a top Iraqi basketball official and a blind athletic coach, both Sunnis, Wednesday. The kidnappings came a day after U.S. and Iraqi forces lifted a blockade on Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.

Mattress fire kills 6 in Reno

A woman set fire to a mattress and touched off a blaze that killed six people and gutted much of a historic brick building in the downtown casino district of Reno, Nev., authorities said Wednesday.

Halloween party gets violent Gunfire broke out between two groups at a massive Halloween street party in San Francisco's Castro district, wounding at least 10 people, including innocent bystanders, police said Wednesday. One victim was listed in critical condition.

Gibson leads Love to sobriety Courtney Love, who has been sober for 15 months, says Mel Gibson helped her on the road to recovery. Love, the former leader of the band Hole and widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, said Gibson had showed up at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel room while she was doing drugs with several men.

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William Styron, Trinity ’47 and a star among a generation of gifted novelists that emerged from Duke following World War 11, died of pneumonia Wednesday at his home in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

The author of acclaimed novels including “Sophie’s Choice” and “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1968, Styron kept close ties to his alma mater.

William Styron “His papers are at the Duke library, and he was very active with campus,” said University Archivist Tim Pyatt, Trinity ’Bl. “The year I graduated, he was the graduation speaker, and he gave what probably was one of the best graduation talks ever given at Duke.”

In Styron’s commencement speech, the Marine veteran-turned-novelist preached pacifism and urged the class of 1981 to “refuse to allow reasonless fear to compromise our peace and the peace ofothers.”

English professor Victor Strandberg teaches Styron’s novels in his classes. He had a chance to meet the writer in 1990, when Balkrishna Buwa, one of his graduate students, contacted Styron out of the blue to ask for an interview.

Styron invited Buwa and Strandberg to visit him in New York City and later brought them to his home in Connecticut.

The two subsequently published their interview with Styron in The Sewanee Review.

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Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was appointed to his position by Gov. Mike Easley in 2005.

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Sitting behind his mahogany desk, with a view of Durham from his window, incumbent District Attorney Mike Nifong discussed his election platform and life outside the office—something for which he has had little time amid the continued controversy surrounding the Duke lacrosse case. whom Nifong, friends and family describe as a thoughtful, election2oo6 professional family man and attorney, said PVt his goals include improving communication with victims and promoting the needs of Durham children.

“I will do the same things as I have been doing so far,” he said.

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One such criticism includes the district attorney’s choice to publicly discuss the case in its early stages. Nifong said Monday that if he had known how the press would react, he would not have made any comments after the first day.

Despite criticisms, Nifong continues to lead contenders Lewis Cheek, who petitioned to be on the ballot, and Steve Monks, a write-in candidate, according to a recent poll conducted by the Raleigh News and Observer.

Although the lacrosse case has dominated headlines, Nifong said he has been busy planning future goals, such as helping Durham children by decreasing truancy, preventing gang violence and providing an accredited child advocacy program.

Nifong explained that child advocacy has a special place in his heart.

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Students will soon have access to free movies and improved career counseling, said two speakers at the Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday night.

Senior Vijay Brihmadesam spoke about the creation of a new system to replace the devilDVD program, which ran for two semesters before folding last fall.

“The capacity of the program was exceeded,” Brihmadesam said, noting that the movies were rarely on shelves.

But the demise of devilDVD was followed by the closing of a popular online server, and Brihmadesam said students still want on-demand movies.

Brihmadesam said their needs are not being met by Freewater Films, which organizes Duke University Union-subsidized movie showings in the Bryan Center, or Cable 13, the University’s student-run television station. He explained that those organizations do not allow students to select the movies.

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Sheila Curran, executive director of the Career Center, briefed DSG Wednesday on the center's future.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council began its meeting Wednesday night with a moment of silence in memory of law student Maja Kolb, who passed away Sunday.

During the meeting, the council discussed the University’s new strategic plan and potential academic schedule changes.

The plan, “Making a Difference,” centers around integration of several factors related to education and living.

Provost Peter Lange discussed the way the plan will affect undergraduate educadon, including altering teaching methods for graduate and professional students.

“We’re changing the definition and methods of teaching and learning—including the rate of information assessed,” he said.

The plan addresses the rapid changes in college atmospheres, he said.

“Universities have come onto a set of internal and external pressures,” Lange said. “The universities where many of you will end up teaching or interacting, with professionally will be very different.”

Whereas the University’s last strategic plan concentrated on constructing new academic buildings, the new plan will aim to fill those buildings with extraordinary staff and graduate students, he said. It will also focus on renovation and expansion of existing buildings, as well as new construction on Central Campus.

He explained that Central will become a hub of student life within five to eight years, according to the new plan.

“For the first time, we can cluster languages, arts, music, performance togeth-

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Politician and author Ben Barnes entered the political scene at a notably young age, and when he spoke in the Bryan Center Wednesday night, he strongly encouraged Duke students to do the same.

“College students not only should get involved, they must get involved,” Barnes said at the talk, which was hosted by the Duke Political Union.

“There’s just too much at stake.”

The speech—which was held as one stop on Barnes’ tour promoting his book, “Barn Building, Barn Burning” focused on calling the undergraduate —

Members of GPSC listens to several topics discussed Wednesday, including an analysis ofthe new strategic plan. er,” Lange said. Building plans include two new performance centers, classrooms and a library.

Central will also house the new Duke University Bookstore. The current retail space will hold a graduate student center, he said.

Before the provost’s dialogue, GPSC representative and chemistry student Claire Siburt, a member of the University Scheduling Committee, brought up the issue of holding summer and fall classes on July 4, Memorial Day and Labor Day. GPSC member and psychology student Sara Becker said the administration forbids summer teachers to cancel classes on July 4 and Memorial Day, though administrative and managerial staff do not have to work.

“We’re the only university I surveyed that holds classes on the Fourth,” Siburt said. “None of the other top-tier or ACC schools have classes that day.”

For Labor Day, of the universities surveyed, 14 do not hold classes, five do hold classes, and two have academic calendars that begin after the holiday.

Siburt said having classes on the holidays disrupts family schedules.

Pending GPSC’s reaction to cancelling and rescheduling the classes, she will forward the motion through Duke Student Government, then the administration.

Tonight, GPSC will hold a Speed Dating event. The organization will hold a Wine and Cheese Special Nov. 9.

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For the past three fiscal years, the rate of return on its investments was 18 percent. Last year, the return hit 20.2 percent, putting Duke third, behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale, officials said.

A 1-percent increase in invesunent returns adds more than $5O million to die University’s budget, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, member ofDUMAC’s board of directors, wrote in an e-mail.

“DUMAC has done a remarkable job with the University’s investment portfolio, both recently and over the past two decades,” he said.

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The new program—which should be approved Monday —will allow students to select titles of recent films to stock at Lilly Library, increasing the branch’s supply of new movies.

Multiple copies of each movie will be available for three-day rentals and then sold, with funds being recirculated into the program to buy new movies, he said.

“A lot of people want to see movies when they first come out,” Brihmadesam added. “At 10 weeks, demand will be pretty low, and that’s when you sell it off.”

In a second presentation, Sheila Curran, executive director of the Career Center, described the center’s current achievements and goals. “We have a very bold goal, which is to be the best career center in the world,” Curran said.

She spoke of a five-year plan to shift resources and provide additional counselors.

“We want to have more counselors, so that every student can have about three

hours of counseling while at Duke,” Curran said, noting that students currently average only one hour.

The Career Center’s future location on Central Campus will put student needs at the forefront, Curran added.

“If we want to be the best career center in the nation, what is it going to take to make students want to come by?” she asked.

Curran added that the center will continue to encourage alumni involvement.

“We want to have a very robust career community,” she said, mentioning the possibility ofalumni’s serving in advisory roles for career counselors.

Curran acknowledged the long-term goal of reaching a more diverse cross-section ofstudents. During the next few years, the center will also provide more resources for international students and those interested in pursuing jobs overseas.

A new program starting tomorrow is an internship database, created with senior Maggie McGannon, DSG vice president for student affairs, which allows students to relate their own internship experiences.

“It puts a little flesh on the whole internship process,” Curran said.

Why Duke didn’t lose to Amaranth While still in its early days, DUMAC focused on venture capital opportunities. It began to invest in hedge funds like Amaranth in the mid-90s. To counteract losses from the burst “telecom bubble,” DUMAC increased hedge fund investments, officials said.

Hedge funds are private investment institutions known for having fewer restrictions on managers and diverse investment strategies,

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hedge funds is that they are not required to disclose information about specific investments to their investors, said Connel

Fullenkamp, associate professor of the

practice in the economics department.

DUMAC officials said Amaranth was more transparent than other hedge funds, and that, through routine monitoring, DUMAC managers saw the danger of this “multi-strategy fund” that was becoming concentrated in energy trading.

The disproportional weighting of Amaranth’s investments, as well as concerns over rapid asset growth and personnel turnover, led DUMAC to the nine-month process of liquidating its holding in the fund.

DUMAC’s ability to closely monitor hedge funds is unusual, because access to specific hedge fund investment is often limited to large investors with a great deal of clout, Fullenkamp said.

“It’s a lot about having relationships

and connections to know people in the industry and to be privy to information that is just not really known,” he added.

Fullenkamp praised DUMAC managers for their astute decision-making.

“They should get more credit for disciplined investing than for being able to forecast the future,” he said. “They were exercising goodjudgement—that’s what they should really be commended for.”

Interpreting DUMAC’s success The University’s endowment, smallrel-

ative to those ofother top-tier universities, could be advantageous to its invesUnent returns, said David Hsieh, a finance professor at the Fuqua School of Business.

According to the 2005 endowment study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Harvard University held the nation’s

highest endowment—approximately $25.5 billion. Duke’s endowment of approximately $3.8 billon ranked 16th.

Hsieh said Duke’s smaller pool of available dollars may have contributed to its high rate of investment return.

“The more money you have, the harder it is to do really well,” he said. ‘You have to find a lot of good opportunities.

Having a small endowment means you don’t need as many of the opportunities.”

DUMAC is a relatively aggressive investor, willing to take risks in alternative exposure and illiquid assets, representatives said, adding that their policy on hedge funds has not changed since Amaranth’s collapse.

“The Duke endowment is so large, and they don’t have any selling deadlines or selling pressures,” Fullenkamp said.

“They have a very long-term perspective that allows them to take on much higher risks than most individuals or even most other financial companies can take on.”

Trask attributed DUMAC’s success in part to aggressive investments in private equities more than a decade ago, which generated high returns around 2000. He said recent results have been related to “very good calls on asset allocation.”

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size early admission.

Approximately 150 students participated in evening programs across the counselors, is that the interest in Duke is country in order to answer high school students’ and parents’ questions about unchanged, and the kind of student interested in Duke is unchanged.” the University. More than 100 underThe University received about 1,500 graduates also agreed to return to their early applications last year. Though this high schools during Fall Break this year year’s data will not be finalized for a few to talk with prospective students. more weeks, Guttentag said he does not “We had had that program for Winter Break but not for Fall Break, and it wasn’t expect a dramatic difference in the numas extensive or as organized as it was this ber of early applicants.

For the first time, high school stuyear,” Guttentag said. “We were very dents can only apply to Duke using the pleased with the way that turned out.”

The University also sent every high Common Application, which is accepted by about 300 universities. Many individ- school senior on its mailing list a copy of the “Senior Stories” brochure—a new ual institutions also request the submisadmissions feature this year. Guttentag sion of supplemental information.

Last year’s applicants had the option said that for the past several years, the of using the Common Application or number of students accepted early has using a specific Duke application. The declined, in order to allow students apmajority of students, however, submitted plying regular.decision a fair chance.

Last year, 475 students were accepted Common Applications, Guttentag said.

“I don’t think the use of the Common early—the lowest number in six or seven Application is in and of itself going to years, Guttentag said—and this year 25 change anything dramatically,” he said. to 28 percent of the roughly 1,665-per“What will be interesting is to see son class should be accepted early.

Guttentag said the elimination of whether only accepting the Common Application this year changes anything early admission at Harvard University, Princeton University and the University within the pool.” of Virginia, which will go into effect next He added that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions had taken several fall, may have an impact on the number measures to more actively promote of regular-decision applications Duke Duke earlier in the year and empha- receives next year.

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Pyatt added that Styron particularly liked the library’s Walt Whitman collection and always stopped by the Whitman “It shows what a gracious man Styron area of the Rare Book Room when he viswas,” Strandberg said. “He was one of the ited Duke.

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“He was very powerful, and he had In the Sewanee Review interview, Styron described Blackburn as “a wonderful these concepts and stuck with them,” mentor” and said, “I don’t know if I could Matthiessen said. have been a writer without Duke.”

“I Just saw him not very long ago, about Blackburn’s students included authors eight or 10 days ago, and he was in the Mac Hyman, Trinity ’47; Fred Chappell, hospital and very frail,” he added. “Even Trinity ’6l, A.M. ’64; Anne Tyler, Women’s then, he was very sharp. We’re going to College ’6l; and Price, Trinity ’55, now miss him very much.”

Styron is survived by his wife, poet James B. Duke Professor of English.

“Styron continued to love Duke and Rose Styron, four children and eight grandchildren. come back,” Pyatt said.

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“I hope that the people who read my book and the people I talk to on campus... understand that you’re never too young to get involved in politics,” Barnes said.

Barnes, who won his first election while still in college, became a member of the Texas House of Representatives at the age of 21. When he was 26, Barnes became the youngest Speaker of the Texas House and was the state’s Lieutenant Governor. Former President Lyndon Johnson touted him as someday becoming the next president from Texas, DPU representatives noted in the advertisement for the event.

Barnes said he wrote his book primarily to remind America’s youth that it is possible for people to achieve what he did. He pointed out that older, more experienced individuals are generally willing to offer advice to younger politicians.

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Barnes added that he asked those mentors a number of questions and joked that he may have been elected Speaker of the House so he would stop bothering his superiors.

Once in the position, Barnes said, he began to develop relationships with Johnson, former President John F. Kennedy and former Texas Governor John Connally, among other political figures.

Barnes discussed his role in planning Kennedy’s trip to Dallas, which ultimately ended in Kennedy’s assassination. Barnes expressed regret that the plans for the parade went through after a heated discussion among planners about canceling it.

However, he said his biggest mistake is recommending dozens of young men, in-

eluding President George W. Bush, to the Air National Guard, precluding them from serving in the Vietnam War. “It was wrong for me to have that power—[public officials] shouldn’t have that right,” he said.

Barnes discussed several primary criticisms of today’s administration with the 12 students who attended the talk.

“Any president should have to answer to the American people when... involved in a five-year conflict,” he said of the war in Iraq. “Not a single time did Lyndon Johnson say, ‘You will criticize the people who are opposed [to the Vietnam War].’”

Currently, Barnes said his primary concern is partisanship in Congress.

“The number-one problem today is the very bitter, rabid partisanship that is taking place at the national level,” he said.

Following a long, cooperative conversation in the Oval Office in 1967 between Johnson and former Senator Everett Dirksen, Barnes said, the two parted with a bear hug, exemplifying an ideal relationship between the two parties.

He added that he cannot imagine the same interaction occurring between Bush and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, today.

“I want the moderate Republicans and Democrats to get together and change the direction America is going,” he said. “We have to start at the state legislature.”

Barnes also said changes have to start with young politicians, not only in engendering bipartisanship, but in other issues as well, including education and global warming. “[Barnes] is a fascinating individual, a great leader, a great speaker and a great example for anyone who wants to be involved in public policy,” junior Gill Stevens, co-president of DPU, said after the talk.

[My wife] and I first met on the steps of the courthouse. She was unhappy with the way the DA’s office was handling child abuse cases,” he said. “I, of course, wasn’t handling any of those cases back then.”

Nifong’s wife, Cy Gurney, is the regional administrator for Guardian ad Litem, a state advocacy program for abused and neglected children.

She said Nifong maintains a healthy balance between work and family.

While Nifong was hospitalized for cancer treatment, Gurney would give him play-by—play descriptions of their son’s Little League baseball games by cell phone, she said.

The walls of Nifong’s office are plastered with photos of his son’s Litde League team, which he coached. A framed Oath of Office is displayed amid all the photos. When asked about his campaign platform, Nifong read aloud the words from his oath, promising to be fair and impartial in all his decisions. “[Nifong] is an incredible trial lawyer who is very knowledgeable of law and procedure,” Durham Criminal Attorney Mark Edwards said. Edwards added that Nifong’s good managerial skills has allowed him to assemble a great staff.

Nifong said he finds his work as the district attorney energizing and challenging after 27 years of working as an assistant district attorney in Durham.

“Mike Nifong’s extensive experience impressed me,” said Robinson Everett, a Duke law professor. Nifong’s familiarity with the people and culture of Durham allows him to work efficiently as district attorney, Everett added.

Nifong admitted, however, that he “

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“I don’t like to ask people for votes or money,” he said. “I am the kind of person who believes that if I do my job, I shouldn’t have to ask.”

The lacrosse case was far from Nifong’s first contact with Duke.

Both of the district attorney’s parents are Duke graduates, and Nifong was offered an Angier B. Duke scholarship to the University, which he declined in favor of attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a different scholarship.

Nifong recalled his college days of protesting against the Vietnam War. “I loved the realities of the late 1960 when everyone’s opinion could be heard,” he added.

Nifong said he is also an avid musical performer and owns a banjo, a mandolin and eight guitars, one of which resides in his office, next to an amplifier.

“Being in court is similar to performing improvisational theater, and I think music brings out my performer’s ego,” he said with a laugh.

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Robert Brickey knows what it’s like to play in Cameron Indoor Stadium. After all, he spent four as a member of the Blue Devils, playing in three Final Fours yg serving as a senior captain in 1989-90.

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“We’ve tried all we can to get our guys in the right mindset so that they would not be intimidated,” Brickey said. “But you can’t duplicate what you experience at Cameron. As much as we try to prepare for that, it’s going to be tough.”

In some ways, Shaw—a Division II school that plays in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association—is not all that different from Duke. The Bears, like the Blue Devils, do not have a single senior on their current roster. They also need to replace their two leading scorers from last season.

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Shaw is coming off a 7-19 season, and junior guard Melvin Smith is the only returnMICHAEL CHANG/THE CHRONICLE ing rotation player from that addition, and Duke's three other the Bears squad.

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CARY, N.C. Down 1-0, Duke senior Sarah McCabe fired an 11-yard shot at the Florida State goal just 34 seconds into the second half.

Although the ball hit the crossbar, McCabe’s shot motivated Duke—until Selin Kuralay found the net DUKE for the FSU 1 Seminol e s two minutes later to bring the score to 2-0.

Sixth-ranked Florida State (14-2-3) knocked Duke (9-8-2) out of the ACC Championships Wednesday night, handing the Blue Devils a 2-0 loss and keeping them out of the semifinal round for the first time since 2001.

“The first time we played them... we got a couple of goals—they’re energy goals,” head coach Robbie Church said.

“We needed something to energize us, we needed something to give us the belief. Unfortunately it turns around and goes right back down the field. It’s tough when it’s a quality opponent like Florida State.”

Duke had upset the then-No. 5 Semiuoles with a 3-1 win Oct. 22 in Koskinen Stadium but could not deliver a similar outcome at the SAS Soccer Complex against a tough Florida State team.

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“It was unfortunate that we got scored on in the first five minutes, but we still batded the rest of the [second] half.”

Thirty-two minutes into the first half, Mami Yamaguchi sent a soaring corner kick to Onnie Trusty on the left side of the box, who hit a header past Duke goalkeeper Allison Lipsher into the top right comer of the net.

Trusty’s goal put the Blue Devils into the same position they had been in Oct. 22—down 1-0 at the half. But this time, Duke did not come back and score.

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N. C. State’s very first serve slammed right into the net.

The rest of the Wolfpack’s night did not get much better.

Duke (20-3, 13-1 in the ACC) accelerated out of the gate against N.C. State (2-21, 0N»C» STATE 0 14) a 6-0 run and, aside from a rough second game, DUKE cruised the rest of the way, sweeping the Wolfpack 30-12, 30-24 and 30-16 Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The combination of Ali Hausfeld and Carrie DeMange proved especially potent, as Hausfeld had 32 assists and Demange knocked in 16 kills.

“Ali and I have been playing together for 10 years now.” DeMange said. “We know each other pretty well, and it works.”

Following the quick 6-0 run in the first game, N.C. State called a timeout to regain focus. For one point it worked, but the Wolfpack proved no match from there as Duke used another run, this time 9-3, to finish N.C. State off in less than 20 minutes.

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Several ties and hard-fought points later, Duke hung on to a 22-21 lead and N.C. State appeared to have dug itself out of its first-game hole.

The Blue Devils, however, would have none of it. They struck with a 7-1 run and a few serves later had the winning point.

The third game saw the struggles of the second game continue initially, as the teams tied seven times, knotting the score at 8-8.

The third game, however, ended the same way the first one began. Duke pulled out with a 14-3 run and had no trouble putting the Wolfpack away from there.

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Robert Brickey knows what it’s like to play in Cameron Indoor Stadium. After all, he spent four years as a member of the Blue Devils, playing in three Final Fours yg serving as a senior captain in 1989-90.

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“It’s exciting to come back and coach,” Brickey said. “It’s not so exciting to face a very good Duke squad. It’s going to be a little weird—one, going against Coach K and two, being on the other bench and being the object of all the cheers and jeers from the crowd. It’s going to be a little weird, but I’m looking forward to the opportunity.”

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“We’ve tried all we can to get our guys in the right mindset so that they would not be intimidated,” Brickey said. “But you can’t duplicate what you experience at Cameron. As much as we try to prepare for that, it’s going to be tough.”

In some ways, Shaw—a Division II school that plays in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association —is not all that different from Duke. The Bears, like the Blue Devils, do not have a single senior on their current roster. They also need to replace their two leading scorers from last season.

That, however, is where the similarities end.

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Down 1-0, CARY, N.C. Duke senior Sarah McCabe fired an 11-yard shot at the Florida State goal just 34 seconds into the second half.

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Sixth-ranked Florida State (14-2-3) knocked Duke (9-8-2) out of the ACC Championships Wednesday night, handing the Blue Devils a 2-0 loss and keeping them out of the semifinal round for the first time since 2001.

“The first time we played them... we got a couple of goals—they’re energy goals,” head coach Robbie Church said.

“We needed something to energize us, we needed something to give us the belief. Unfortunately it turns around and goes right SARA GUERERRO/THE CHRONICLE back down the field. It’s tough walks off the field after Duke's first-round loss to Florida State. when it’s a quality opponent like Senior Rebecca Moros Florida State.”

Duke had upset the then-No. “It was unfortunate that we got Trusty’s goal put the Blue Devscored on in the first five minils into the same position they 5 Seminples with a 3-1 win Oct. 22 in Koskinen Stadium but utes, but we still batded the rest had been in Oct. 22—down 1-0 at the half. But this time, Duke did could not deliver a similar outof the [second] half.”

Thirty-two minutes into the not come back and score. come at the SAS Soccer Com“Anytime you play a team like plex against a tough Florida first half, Mami Yamaguchi sent a State team. soaring corner kick to Onnie Florida State that a lot of times “We knew that if we battled Trusty on the left side of the box, you can panic,” freshman Elisabeth Redmond said. “We rushed hard and gave it our all that we who hit a header past Duke goalcould come back like we did bekeeper Allison Lipsher into the SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 10 fore,” senior Darby Kroyer said. top right corner of the net.

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N. C. State’s very first serve slammed right into the net.

The rest of the Wolfpack’s night did not get much better.

Duke (20-3, 13-1 in the ACC) accelerated out of the gate against N.C. State (2-21, 0N.c» STATE | 0 14) with a 6-0 run and, aside from a rough second game, DUKE cruised the rest of the way, sweeping the Wolfpack 30-12, 30-24 and 30-16 Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The combination ofAli Hausfeld and Carrie DeMange proved especially potent, as Hausfeld had 32 assists and Demange knocked in 16kills “Ali and I have been playing together for 10 years now.” DeMange said. “We know each other pretty well, and it works.”

Following the quick 6-0 run in the first game, N.C. State called a timeout to regain focus. For one point it worked, but the Wolfpack proved no match from there as Duke used another run, this time 9-3, to finish N.C. State off in less than 20 minutes.

The Blue Devils struggled in the second game as the

teams traded points for several serves. The Wolfpack had

found its confidence and Duke’s communication started to break down. “[N.C. State] started playing better,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “I didn’t feel like we were running smoothly with our communication.”

Several ties and hard-fought points later, Duke hung on to a 22-21 lead and N.C. State appeared to have dug itself out of its first-game hole.

The Blue Devils, however, would have none ofit. They struck with a 7-1 run and a few serves later had the winning point.

The third game saw the struggles of the second game continue initially, as the teams tied seven times, knotting the score at 8-8.

The third game, however, ended the same way the first one began. Duke pulled out with a 14-3 run and had no trouble putting the Wolfpack away from there.

The win reasserted the Blue Devil’s role as top team in the ACC after suffering their first conference loss at Georgia Tech last Friday.

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Junior Carrie DeMange led the Blue Devils' potent attack with 16 kills against N.C. State Wednesday night in Cameron IndoorStadium.

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seeded North Carolina (12-7,1-4 in ACC). The match will be played at 4 p.m. at Francis E. Henry Stadium in Chapel Hill.

The Blue Devils, coming off consecutive wins over No. 12 California and No. 10 Virginia, will need to defeat the Tar Heels for the second time this season in order to advance to a Friday evening matchup with No 2. seed Wake Forest. In its previous contest against UNC, Duke won 2-1 in overtime, with senior midfielder Amy Stopford scoring the winning goal on a penalty stroke.

Head coach Beth Bozman said she does not buy into the logic that it would be more difficult to beat a team the second time around.

“Usually that is just coaching lingo used by the team that didn’t win the first time,” Bozman said.

“If you perform well, the best team will win. We are going in feeling confident, and we think that we will hit our stride.”

some of our decisions, and we did our best to create opportunities, we just needed to finish them.”

The Blue Devils outshot the Seminoles 16-11 and took 14 corner kicks to Florida State’s four but struggled with finishing. The Seminoles, on the other hand, were able to connect despite heavy defensive pressure from Duke.

“At the start of the second half Duke pressed us,” Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian said.

‘You take the lead when you can get it and try to hold on to it and add to it when ever you can.”

With the NCAA tournament around the corner, Duke will continue to focus on finishing

and defending set plays in practice in preparation for what it hopes will be an upcoming NCAA tournament berth.

The Blue Devils will now hope to receive an at-large bid to the competition. Church said that he is confident that his team has earned one of the 64 spots in the tournament, which will be announced at 5 p.m. Nov. 6.

“I think we deserve to be in the NCAA tournament, and I think that one of the things the selection committee will look at is teams that go out and challenge themselves and get better with their out-of-conference schedules,” Church said. “I think you have to look at quality wins. Not only have we challenged ourselves but we have gotten results.”

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Senior Amy Stopford, who has scored 12 goals,was named to theAll-ACC team this week.

The Tar Heels only have one league win—a 4-0 victory' over Boston College— but seven of

tourney, it’s what kids want to play in as they grow up, so we are looking forward to it.” their II wins this season have With the NCAA Champicome at home. Historically, the onships slated to begin next Blue Devils have not performed weekend, it will be important for well in Chapel Hill, losing 28 of the Blue Devils to perform well in their 31 road matchups against the ACC tournament in order to North Carolina. earn a top seed. With all six ACC Still, Duke has won its last two teams among the top 10 teams in matches at Francis E. Henry Stadithe nation, the Blue Devils’ perum, and Bozman is not worried formance this weekend will play a about North Carolina’s home role in determining the team’s field advantage. first round opponent.

“It used to be a big jinx for “It will absolutely have implicaDuke when we played at UNC, but tions on our seeding,” Bozman said. its not such a disadvantage for us to “The way that we perform in this come over here anymore,” Boztournament will really dictate where man said. “We’re here at the ACC we go and how we are seeded.”

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“We played a short corner, Spencer [Wadsworth] to Kyle Helton,” Videira said. “He put it right in the box between me and Graham Dugoni. He was right behind me, and he let it go to me Videira’s sixth goal of the season, off the cross from Helton in the left corner, gave the Blue Devils a lead they maintained the rest of the contest. Both Helton and Wadsworth were credited with assists, giving Wadsworth his ACC-leading 12th of the season.

“We weren’t exactly happy with how we played, but we got a win and that’s what’s important,” Loftus said.

“There were times when we looked good where we were swinging the ball quickly from our left back to our right back, letting the ball do the work rather than us. That game’s over with, and now we’re moving on to Friday’s

will be playing without some key players that are sitting out the first semester.

The Blue Devils, on the other hand, are looking to establish a rhythm and a rotation before their first regularseason game Nov. 12 against Columbia.

“It’s going to be great,” sophomore forward Jamal Boykin said. “It’s a brand new team. It’s going to be very exciting just to play with different matchups in the game.

We’ve gotten used to blue team-white team a little bit—it’s going to be nice to just play as a collective group.”

Duke enters the new season as young as it has ever been, returning just three players from last season’s rotation and relying heavily on its four freshmen—all of whom will get their first true NCAA action when they take the floor tonight.

“Especially for the freshmen, we just want to get them some more experience on the court,” Boykin said. “I need some more experience on the court myself. We need to get used to running sets with different guys and different

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The Blue Devils will now face fourth-seeded Maryland Friday at 8 p.m. The teams met previously this year, resulting in a 1-0 victory for the Terrapins.

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With Duke’s prospective

ownership, several needed improvements would finally come to fruition. The city would benefit from these changes and it would not have to fund them. The arrangement would save money for Durham and would open the door for improvements to one of Duke’s most heavily trafficked streets.

The University could finally add much-needed crosswalks to the street. The importance of such safety measures seems all the more crucial now, following an unfortunate incident last year in which a student was struck by a car. If the University provides the budget, moreover, the school could also improve sidewalks, making the street that much safer for

pedestrians. Members of the Duke and Durham communities could finally bid prevalent potholes a fond farewell with a likely repaving of Anderson. With criminal activity always a concern on Central Campus, placing new lights on Anderson Street seems like an obvious and worthwhile pursuit as well.

Durham has been unable to provide funding for such endeavors, but the University has the money and, most likely, the will to make such improvements a priority.

Although the current controversy surrounding the donation may garner attention and create a few more headlines, the Durham City Council ultimately should decide to turn Anderson Street over to the University.

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In past years, Anderson Street has stood out as a source of considerable concern for many members of the Duke and Durham communities. Though some Durham community members surely have the right to voice an argument against transferring ownership to Duke, the advantages of doing so seem to outweigh handily the perceived dangers.

Duke’s ownership of the road would present significant improvements over current conditions. For some time, community members have complained about traffic safety, accessibility and crime-related issues; yet, because structural improvements to Anderson require Durham city funding, necessary changes have remained unfinished.

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heard a lot about diversity this year.

It all began when The Chronicle reported Aug. 31 that the First-Year Advisory Counselor program has “a significant overrepresentation of greek-affiliated students and an underrepresentation

black and Asian students.”

Although this may be a result of competing peer jamie deal counseling profor minorigrams strategery ties, such as the Africana Mentoring Program, one FAC board member told the paper that “it is important to keep improving the diversity ofFACs by continually setting this as a priority of the program.”

In October, The Chronicle delivered the news that Duke’s study abroad program also lacks diversity proportional to the University’s—which itself is not strong enough for some. Apparently, the expense of study abroad and other factors preclude many minority students from experiencing one of the hallmarks of the Duke education.

And finally, there is an apparent lack of diversity among professors. The Faculty Diversity Initiative, which began three years ago, has done little to get rid of disparities. For instance, The Chronicle reported Oct. 31 that “Duke’s gender equity numbers are lower than the national average.” And when it comes to retention of black professors, 66 percent who are hired stay. The overall retention rate for the faculty, however, is 71 percent.

This troubles many people. And for a university that prides itself on being progressive and enlightened, such facts could prove damaging to its reputation. Although it should be a concern, a lack of diversity is not always detrimental. Indeed, forcing a specific notion of diversity on a program or modifying hiring practices to accommodate it can make things worse.

The FAC program, at least in my experience, does not suffer because ofits imperfect diversity. My

FAC, for instance, was a greek-affiliated minority student. But when I think back on my experience with him, I find it hard to come up with an example of how his ethnicity added anything significant to the relationship. His kindness and humor—not his skin color—were what made him great.

The study abroad program should not be of concern either. Duke students go abroad to experience the people of another country—not each other.

And as for faculty hiring, diversity of thought should matter most. This does not mean that there should be affirmative action for conservatives (although I would like to meet a right-wing professor someday). On the contrary, Duke’s hiring practices should be based on the applicant’s merit and unique approach to his or her field.

Though important, race, class and gender should not dominate the process.

For those who disagree, how about the lack of diversity on our athletic teams? Duke does not have many Asians scoring touchdowns or nailing threepointers, and there are no black students playing varsity golf or tennis. I certainly hope things change in the future. But for now, I’m not expecting the Athletics Department to address the issue of “diversity,” because its job is to recruit and train the best

But while it should be a concern, a lack of diversity is not always

detrimental. student athletes possible—and nothing more.

Ideally, Duke would be just like the brochures: students of every color joined together to pursue knowledge in perfect harmony. But it is time to realize that disparities always exist, and despite every effort to promote diversity, birds of a feather still flock together.

Administrators should move beyond basic notions of diversity in determining what is best for Duke’s future.

Jamie Deal is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

The Chronicle is accepting remembrances for Melissa Hagberg and Maja Kolb.

Please submit your memories and stories to Dan at dbe@duke.edu.

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College campuses, with curious young people, concentrated diversity and an inclination toward open dialogue, have proven an important foothold for the interfaith dialogue movement. For example, on many college campuses, there is a growing interest across faiths in Ramadan, the Muslim month of prayer and fasting.

Many non-Muslim students are drawn to this time of reflection and community building because of its adaptability to many faith traditions. But this movement is not simply a college luxury—it has a national focus and national leaders to boot.

Eboo Patel, board member of Duke’s Islamic Studies program and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, is one such leader. He has been helping students establish interfaith partnerships for almost 10 years through his Chicago-based program.

Dr. Patel will be addressing the Duke and UNC communities Sunday as a capstone to a series sponsored by several faith communities on both campuses. The mission of the Interfaith Youth Core is simple: “to build a movement that encourages religious young people to strengthen their religious identities, foster inter-religious understanding and cooperate to serve the local and global community.”

The Core engages youth in team service projects while discussing religious differences and similarities.

Luckily, our opportunity for such interfaith dialogue at Duke is tremendous. The University boasts a diverse student body with a vibrant religious life, evidenced by the more than 25 active student religious groups on campus. The Freeman Center hosts weekly Shabbat dinners, the Muslim Student Association sponsors iftar dinners during Ramadan, Campus Crusade for Christ offers free hot chocolate at Krzyzewskiville and a Buddhist meditation center resides a few blocks from East Campus—all this at a school founded in the Methodist tradition.

But if the opportunity is great, then the need—both here at Duke and around the nation—is much greater. The world is struggling to understand the implications ofreligion in politics and war.

What does it mean to worship a benevolent God if people kill in his name? How are we to be tolerant in a world where ideological zealotry brings out the darker aspects of faith? How do we encourage cooperation and understanding against the messages of the Pat Robertsons and bin Ladens of the world?

The answer is that it is no longer enough to be tolerant ofothers’ beliefs; actively educating ourselves is the only way to prevent deeper rifts in our nation’s fabric. In a post-Sept. 11 world, ignorance is the enemy. Allowing prejudices to develop between Americans invites unrest.

Don’t believe it? Look no further than our friends in Spain, England and France, where an unfortunate recipe of ignorance and uneasy tolerance has shown us what happens when citizens refuse to engage with each other. So much of the recent unrest is the product of believing that if we ignore difference, if we banish religion as much as we can, that our problems will disappear. But by not prioritizing religious dialogue, many Europeans propagate the worst preconceptions, driving neighbors further from each other.

To prepare the country for the next stage ofits development, we must dig deep and understand the diverse religious makeup of our peers. Becoming an educated and engaged public will keep prejudices at bay.

Interfaith dialogue exposes similar values and practices. Three major faith traditions call Abraham their forefather. They all encourage moral lifestyles, compassion, justice and personal devotion to God. Though these faiths are famous for their disagreements, we overlook how much they share in common.

The representation of the heavens above may vary, but all faiths have something to offer one other on the Earth below. Interfaith dialogue strengthens and enriches the personal faith of each participant by fostering an environment of mutual respect and education.

Gone are the days when we can consider interfaith dialogue a personal luxury. In the world we live in today, it is our patriotic duty to engage people offaith in dialogue. can

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an Oct. 20 column, James Zou encouraged Duke students not to vote in the upcoming election in order to ensure “due political and judicialprocess.”

As a matter ofboth civics and law, this advice is seriously misguided. Duke students should make every effort to vote on or before Tuesday, Nov. 7 in order to protect their own rights and to make Durham a more just and ethical place for everyone. ou ar u jason trompbour § i that a candidate guest column for district attorney should be evaluated on his entire career rather than a single case. This of course begs the question of how many incidents of manifest injustice are too many for a district attorney. In any event, in my experience as a criminal attorney, prosecutors do not suddenly go bonkers and start engaging in pervasive and willful ethical violations and other misconduct after years of loyal service. Rather, I strongly suspect that what we are seeing now are bad habits and even worse attitudes that Nifong has developed over the course of his career and which are now being illuminated for the first time by the Klieg lights he so desperately sought. Think about how many poor, anonymous people might have been denied a fair trial by Nifong over the years and how many more could be if he is elected.

What are Nifong’s apparent missteps? Let us review.

—Prejudicial and false extrajudicial statements in violation ofNorth Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct 3.6 and 3.8(f) —Denial of the right to due process through a suggestive identification procedure —lmproper contact with persons represented by counsel in violation of Rule 4.2 —Conflict of interest in violation of Rule 1.7(a)(2) due to his political alliance with Mark Simeon, an attorney who has made it clear he wants to profit from a civil suit and has taken steps to pursue one —Possible obstruction of justice through witness tampering —Refusal to look for or examine exculpatory evidence in violation ofRule 3.8 The latter is the most serious transgression because it goes to the heart of the public prosecutor’s role in the legal system. The comments to Rule 3.8 state “A prosecutor has the responsibility of a minister ofjustice and not simply that of an advocate; the prosecutor’s duty is to seek justice, not merely to convict.”

Nifong’s sense of impunity is also disturbing.

Even the school-yard bully is smart enough to stop hitting the other kids when someone is watching.

Zou complains that the Committee to Recall Nifong —Vote Cheek has received contributions from donors outside of Durham County. Yes, we have all heard Nifong make this complaint. Nifong habitually attempts to exploit or create some prejudice within

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Lewis Cheek is a real and not a “dummy” candidate as Zou says. Cheek has made it painfully clear that he does not want to and, indeed, feels that he cannot serve as district attorney. He simply does not want Nifong to be district attorney. Cheek’s motives are purely altruistic. They involve no benefit and much political risk to himself. Having the governor choose the next district attorney would not be unusual; 16 of the 34 district attorneys now serving statewide, including Nifong, were appointed to their offices.

Keep in mind that Nifong is more of a “dummy candidate” than Cheek. The Grievance Committee of the North Carolina Bar has indicated that it will not pursue the numerous grievances filed against Nifong until after the lacrosse case has been concluded. When they do, however, Nifong will be distracted and unable to effectively perform his duties and will spend up to a year defending himself against the bar inquiry. Because it is almost certain that Nifong will be suspended or disbarred, he will not be able to continue in office. And as the governor may be choosing the next district attorney in Durham County, the best option is to start looking to the future now and save the community the disruption and pathetic spectacle of Nifong’s protracted death throws.

The United States is the only western nation where local prosecutors are popularly elected. In every other nation, prosecutors are selected by merit.

They are centrally trained, supervised and evaluated according to exacting professional standards.

For better or worse, citizens here are specifically called upon to evaluate candidates based on their legal and ethical qualifications. If the public does not remain engaged in the process, the consequences can be disastrous. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to help a Nepali lawyer in his efforts to support the rule of law in his country. There the courts, by attempting to ensure that the laws and constitution were obeyed, were providing the only effective opposition to a despotic monarch who was trying to impose rule by decree. A community can survive momentary failures of its political institutions, but, if its legal system is compromised, then it is helpless.

The single greatest thing Duke students can do for Durham is to ensure that the rule of law survives in Durham County by voting on or before this Tuesday.

Jason Trompbour, Trinity ’BB, Grad ’9l, Law ’9l, also has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (’96). He teaches law at the University of Maryland Law School and legal and ethical studies at the University ofBaltimore. Heformerly was an attorney in the Criminal Appeals Division of the Maryland Attorney General’s office. He is the Spokesperson for theFriends of Duke University.

Emily Thomey is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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A new culture of youth terminology has surfaced on campus: the Borat Dialect.

Most students can attest to hearing snippets of heavily accented conversations that may include, “In my country,” “It’s niiiiice,” and “Ve like sexy time.”

The memorization of Borat YouTube clips has become a Friday night pastime.

Facebook groups propose that the fictional character played by Brit Sacha Baron Cohen be elected president of Kazakhstan. And a feature film named Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is set for wide release Nov. 3.

Borat has become the new Napoleon Dynamite —an unlimited source ofcult fascination bred in the media. All in good fun, right?

But instead of half-wit remarks, the faux TV news reporter parades prejudiced and misogynist comments, albeit with charmingly innocent flair. But when does politicized comedy cross the line and become social insult? And what kinds of problems does this pose to the other side: the country that becomes the object ofparody?

In this case, cultural comedy becomes a very serious issue with potentially damaging consequences, said senior GabitBekakhmetov, a native of Burabay, Kazakhstan.

“In all international communities nowadays, every state is trying to create its image and attract investors to be competitive in the world,” he said. “When someone hijacks your image and makes what [Borat] made out of it, it’s very upsetting.”

He said most Americans to whom he has been introduced instantly question him about Borat, a tendency he finds

major-label success

David Graham recess What does it take to make a man leave the comfort of his home and quit his job for the hardscrabble life of a musician? Well, you might say it was a bad case of the blues.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Dan Auerbach started his four-year odyssey on the road in 2002 when he and musical partner Pat Carney lost their miserable landscapingjobs.

“We were mowing lawns for a slum lord, basically,” Auerbach said. “It was disgusting—we had to pick up tons of 40s and plastic cups, and we were practicing every day in Pat’s basement. It was kind of a no-brainer.”

From that low point, things have gotten much rosier for his blues-rock band, the Black Keys. After their appearance in the Triangle this past spring, the band signed to Nonesuch Records, released its first major-label (and fourth overall) LP and toured as an opener for Radiohead. Their road brings them to Carrboro next Thursday as they headline the Cat’s Cradle with the Black Angels.

The Keys’ music is an exercise in rawness. Magic Potion, released Sept. 12, is a little bit more polished than previous discs, but still oozes the blues.

“We’ve kind of gotten more into the recording aspect and using different mics for different purposes and preamps and all that junk,” Auerbach said. by

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Development Policy and a Kazakhstani na- Take for example his gleeful references to tive, said she was astonished that people “the town rapist” and glimpses of his could find the character at all realistic. hometown’s kindergarten, a dirt pit.

The film (which, interestingly, was shot Josh Gibson, assistant director in the primarily in Romania) is meant to present Film/Video/Digital Program who will itself in a mock documentary style with teach the program’s capstone course on Borat at the helm. The film revolves the hybridism of documentary and film around his conversations with the likes of SEE BORAT ON PAGE 5 feminist groups, etiquette instructors and

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It’s a feeling Maestro John Neschling, conductor of the Orquestra de Sao Paolo, can also relate to. After a bright career as a renowned conductor in Europe for 20 years, he surprised everyone when he made the drastic decision to leave the long-established European opera houses and symphonies to return to his native Brazil and conduct the Orquestra, which will perform in Page Auditorium on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t much for him to come home to. “I took over an orchestra that was in very bad shape,” said Neschling. The orchestra, which was formed in 1954, had hardly had a stable history. Although it was initially successful, the orchestra twice lost its “practical value” and had to cease playing after poor programming and administration

John Neschling conducts countryman HeitorVilla-Lobos Tuesday.

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Last Saturday, recess waited in the West Campus Plaza mists for that cute girl from our Rocks for Jocks class and noticed something dispicable. The plaza mists left us smelling like a Craven Quad shower. Because the water quality in Durham is lower than K-Fed’s street cred, recess has decided to run as a write-in candidate for Durham County Water Utilities manager.

Some ofyou may be wondering what our platform consists of. Well let recess throw out two words: family values. That’s right, it’s a widely known fact that the most important personality trait ofany water utilities manager is an unflinching dedication to the American Nuclear Family establishment—oh, and recess loves Jesus too.

To this end, we have contacted Madonna’s people and recess is sending off for two kids and a wife from Malaysia. To complete our suburban bliss, they offered to throw in a minivan and Kenny G’s latest for an extra 15 bucks, but we declined—just think ofall the better things recess could do with $l5, like buy 15 Yanni CDs. But we are not blind to the issues. If elected, recess promises a Brita water system in every kitchen and two replacement filters in every garage.

In addition to improving general water quality, recess shall use its power to ban all Facebook groups that begin with “If 300,000 people join this group...”—with the obvious exception of recess’s own “If a gazillion people join this group recess will catch Osama.”

Also, we have it on good authority that the current water ultilites manager, or WUM as we say in the biz, is cheating on his wife with a gay, prochoice, flag-burning child predator.

Not that there’s anything wrong with any of those, let it be known that recess is nothing if not open-minded.

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Durham java hotspots 1. Front Street Cafe, 1821 Hillandale Road: If you’re

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Parisian cafe but can’t afford the airfare for a transatlantic flight, Front Street Cafe is your next best bet. This coffeehouse, run by the coowner of Papas Grille, serves espresso and pastries behind a wall-to-wall mural of a French street scene. Front Street also adds in a little Mediterranean flair with authentic Greek coffee and baklava.

2. Sips Coffee & Tea, 2501 University Drive: Sips is a coffee shop with something for everyone. Their extensive drink list offers everything from straight-up lattes to chocolate chai tea. For those looking for something a little more upscale, Sips also has an old-fashioned tea room that serves black, green, white and oolong teas, as well as scones and other tea treats.

3. Guglhupf, 2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; In need of satisfying a major sweet-tooth? Head over to Guglhupf, which was voted the best bakery in the Triangle by the Independent Weekly. The German-style bakery and cafe offers a variety of unique pastries, including a raspberry mousse tart and a cranberry pecan biscotti, as well as traditional German favorites like apple strudel.

4. Shade Tree Coffee, 2816 Erwin Road: For a coffeehouse perfect for both studying and hanging out, the place to be is Shade Tree Coffee. The comfortable leather couches are a great place to catch up on reading, and the free wi-fi guarantees that procrastination on Facebook is only a click away.

5. Bean Traders, 714 Ninth St.: For freshmen who need a break from Trinity Cafe’s bland coffee, Bean Traders is only a few blocks away. Though Bean Traders is geared mostly towards customers who want to grab a drink to go, there are still quite a few tables for those who’d rather sit and unwind. Bean Traders features an eclectic list ofcoffee flavors as well as non-coffee drinks, like Italian sodas and root beer floats. at a

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The Nasher Museum of Art always draws a crowd. And each month, the museum opens its doors for the public to meet an artist and mingle in the new gallery.

Tonight’s monthly event, however, marks an especially important watershed for the museum—the unveiling of the museum’s first purchase of art, a sculpture by New York-based artist Petah Coyne.

Coyne is scheduled to give a lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the museum’s auditorium followed by a reception. The artist is known for creating habitats or environments in which single art forms interact to create energetic, vibrant worlds.

The sculpture purchased by the Nasher, “Untitled #llll (Little Ed’s Daughter Margaret),” is an 11-foot, three-dimensional collage of materials exhibiting Coyne’s unique style. It borrows qualities from elements such

as tree branches, water, wax, taxidermy and satin.

Coyne herself shares qualities with her larger-than-life artwork: the sculptor has been described by BOMB Magazine as a “burst of drive, grace, of humor, delight and fun.”

“I am pleased to bring this dramatic work of art to Durham,” said Kim Rorschach, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to purchase a major piece by an artist whose work moves us, and whose contributions to the development of contemporary art are significant.”

Whether the piece will be well received by the general public is purely a question of time. With other purchases in the works, “Untitled #1111” marks the first ofmany exciting adjustments to the museum’s collection.

—Christine Schellack

The collage grows up at the Bryan Center’s Louise Jones Brown Gallery

Popularized by second-graders around the nation, the collage is often associated with last-minute school projects rather than high art.

In The Art of Transformation, on display at the Louise Jones Brown Gallery until Dec. 1, artist Alyssa Hinton succeeds in transforming this classroom staple into a strong medium offering unusual visual depth.

While incorporating photography, oil paint, computer graphics, wood planks and even feathers, Hinton’s art pieces remain fluid. At first glance, it is hard to pick out the different parts of the whole.

“The overall theme has to do with the universal concept of the individual and society at large resensitizing to earth,” Hinton said.

The backgrounds of the pieces

burst with warm colors that connote vivacity and life. Amidst the mixture of nature and cultural memorabilia—such as coins, map fragments and photos—Hinton subtly weaves in abstract technological images, like brain waves, to convey the interconnectedness of the world.

The color combinations and graphic distortions do not vary much from piece to piece; even the symbols, such as the deer and the turtle, are in jeopardy of losing emotional power through repetition.

The collage format also serves a personal purpose for Hinton.

“I use mixed media collage to fuse parts and pieces of my experience and awareness; it’s a form of reconciliation within myself,” she said.

—Nancy Wang

We all remember the anxiety-filled first week of freshman year. But what if your dorm room happened to be in the chemistry building, and you woke up the first morning to find a botched science experiment had given you superpowers?

That’s what happens to the new class at Freese College in Freshmen. The comic book follows a small group of students as they deal with fitting in, finding new friends and, of course, saving the world from supervillains.

The second series ofFreshmen hit stores yesterday. recess’ Yoni Riemer spoke with co-creators Hugh Sterbakov and Seth Green about ffat life and 15-foot schlongs. recess: Where did you get the idea for Freshmen?

Hugh Sterbakov: One night we were playing pingpong in my garage. I had a bunch of bananas and they weren’t ripe yet, and I said, “I wish I had some mutant power to ripen bananas.” We laughed about that and started talking about ridiculous superpowers. The next morning when I woke up, I realized, “Wait, we’ve got some pretty hinny characters here!”

Where did you go from there?

HS: At that point, I ran with it and created characters to go with the powers. Seth really liked it and we immediately tried to go sell it to some movie producers.

Seth Green; We met a lot of people and they all said the same thing. We were better to launch it in its intended medium. You can’t make a comic book movie without a comic book.

What makes Freshmen different from other comics?

HS: This is a story set in the real world.

It’s not set in Metropolis. [The characters] have never seen anybody with superpowers before, and they’re trying to adjust to having

them. It’s got a lot of comedy in it, more than your average book.

So this superpowered story is more realistic?

HS: In the first series, one of the major plots was based on Seductress. She’s this overweight girl who didn’t get asked to prom. Then she gets the ability to make anybody fall in love with her! What would a 16-year-old girl with this power do? And the answer is that she would find that hottest guy in school and make him fall in love with her.

Are there any characters that you feel personally connected to?

HS; I think almost all of them. The characters that aren’t a part of me are the ones that are more distant in the comic, like the guy with the 15-foot schlong. You know, I’ve never identified with having a 15-foot schlong, so I’m having trouble figuring out what to do with the guy.

Basically, you cast the fraternity brothers as the supervillains. Did you get beat up by frat guys in college?

SG: It’s an easy correlation to draw—the real life conflict between the outcast kids and the super-popular kids as heroes and villains. But it’s also just in good fun. The tendency of collegiate fraternity, sports-associated people is one of discipline, not necessarily making your own decisions. We needed guys that would be easily seduced by power, and the frat guy football players seemed like the most likely choice.

So is the audience for this comic the college student?

SG: I don’tknow if that’s necessarily true.

We’re telling a story that we feel is adult and mature and relatable, but also something that is relatable to youngerkids. We’re trying to make it the most authentically emotionally valid story we can.

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killed off in last year’s The OC season finale. Tired of her obtuse female ways, the initial shock of her death quickly turned into hopeful anticipation for what drama the fall would bring.

But then months of OC withdrawal planted seeds of doubt into our sun-baked heads. Whose limited acting ability would we be faced with next?

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bruised, bloody Ryan sleeping on a metal grate bunk. Having searched out the seediest joint in Orange County, where he earns a few dollars as a bartender, his main pastime is caged combat a la Fight Club.

Soon we’re subjected to all kinds of madness that more commonly associated with Lost or 24\ a “32 hours before” tagline, and a narrative voiceover (albeit just Seth leaving a message). And let’s not get started on Summer, who having transformed into tree-hugging, bongo-drumming Brown chic, proceeds to shatter our long running source of OC stability by shrugging off the affections of our boy Seth.

Although nothing every really made sense in The OC, now nothing makes sense andvre don’t have pretty things to look at. What happened to the good old days of drowning our normalcy in the exorbitant wealth of materialistic, over-tanned private school teens?

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I heard from articles and TV sources who have seen the first four episodes that The OC is going back to the quality of season one. I’m excited for that, however I will be watching Grey’s Anatomy and taping the OC. —Celia Glass, ’O9

“Nothing but good can come from the fiery car-accident demise of Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton).”

—Entertainment Weekly

I’m just in love with Dr. McDreamy. That basically sums it all up, but the story in Grey’s is also cuter and you can root for the characters. The OC is too much drama. Even though Grey’s has drama, it’s more realistic. Plus, there’s too much California culture in The OC, it’s like a soap opera. We can’t relate to those people.

—Jill Garrison, ’O9

Despite the long summer break, that scene with Meredith and McDreamy in the surgial room was still fresh in my head and I was ready to see them drive off from the prom and head for home to get it on again!

—TV Fodder.com —Vanin Leila, Lexi Richards,

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Josh Schwartz: Hopefully there will be a lot of them. The Cohens will be battling for Ryan’s soul, Seth and Summer will be trying to make long distance work and Julie Cooper is going to be out of control this year.

How do you keep the show fresh after four years?

As long as you feel engaged with these characters and relate to them, hopefully you’ll stay interested in them. This year I wanted to come back and focus on reinventing the show. After a few seasons on the air, I felt it was time to re-boot the show and leave high school and have Summer at Brown and Ryan out on his own. The actors have allowed these characters to grow up.

With the death ofMarissa Cooper, the show has hurdled in an all new direction this season. So hopefully the show will open up.

Now that Marissa is dead, can you talk about Mischa’s departure?

It got blown out of proportion. It was a creative direction that was made and we wanted to move in a new direction. Tragedy was always part ofher life, even from the first episode where she was passed out in a driveway, you knew she was flirting with tragedy. It has nothing to do with Mischa’s behavior or anything. It was a hard decision.

In a recent interview Rachel Bilson said the show was kind of over. Any comments?

No, I think those comments were taken out of context. We were just talking and we are all excited about our time slot, and we both think there is a lot ofcreative juice in the show and a lot more to do.

Why should people watch The OC this season?

The heart and humor of the show are really back and you haven’t seen this version of the show before. And the cast is giving it 110 percent. I think it is fun again. If you were a fan at any point you will love this season of the show.

Was it hard to meet the expectations of the first season? And what would you change from the past seasons?

We were kind of the underdogs and we were coming on in August with no expectations and so when you come back it kind of changes things. What would I do differently? All of it has been learning experiences.

I could have kept a couple characters and lost a couple characters. It’s all been food for thought, but I think it has all been leading to fruition for this year which why I think it’s all been important.

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their livestock, but as the family’s two young children take turns firing into the dusty horizon, the rigid determination in their eyes warns of disaster to come. That disaster manifests itself in the accidental shooting of an American tourist (played by the luminous Cate Blanchett), an action that jumpstarts the film’s central narrative.

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four stories he cuts between and refuses to dictate exactly what those connections are. Unlike the limp desperation of last year’s Crash—where everything wrapped itself into a compact, commercially viable package— Inarritu understands that creation of a successful portrait of current-day life simply cannot substitute resolution for substance.

With that said, the film’s largest faults transpire in the final 20 minutes. Despite offering a few crescendos, emotional these conclusive scenes feel more like an addendum to a story that is still being played out.

—Brian McGinn

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Sheen creates a Blair that doesn’t so much resemble the PM as it does recreate him in Sheen’s own form; the use of television b-roll not only introduces Diana’s

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says the film is less a fake documentary and more “pure” because audiences are able to see the interaction of interviewer and interviewee.

“Borat is able to sort of break down the cultural defenses of his unwitting targets and show us that prejudice exists in our own culture,” Gibson said. “I almost see him less as a comedian and more as a political federalist. He’s able to use this character as a sort ofpersona to get at the existing tensions that are in America today, which Dan Rather might not get somebody to say.”

Joseph Lucco, a sophomore, is one of COURTESY CHARLES BECKER, SPECIAL TO RECESS many Dukies who crammed into the Byran The realKazakhstan is an oil-rich developing country, not the rural backwater portrayed in CulturalLearnings.

Center’s Griffith Theatre last week for a much-anticipated advanced screening. film merges reality with fiction, there is a “[Borat] has picked a people that are For Lucco, the Borat character is funny belikely prospect that it will be misconstrued unlikely to respond,” Becker added. “If he cause of his mockery of Western ignoby the majority of the Western population had picked Serbia or Croatia or some who may not even know where to place place like that, he wouldn’t last very long.” rance, as opposed to mockery of Kazakhstan itself.

Kazakhstan on a map.

Becker conceded most of the jokes will “I find it amusing the way the character In case you were wondering, Kazakhstan not be damaging and that whatever negais south ofRussia and borders China to the tive publicity comes from the film is better makes fun of stereotypes,” he said. “Everythan no publicity at all. However, he says one laughs at them but there’s a lot of northeast. It is also a rapidly-developing, truth about how [Americans] stereotype oil-exporting country, which houses costhe government has no idea how to parlay mopolitan cities as well as provincial towns. this press, and although bad press can be foreigners.”

The aforementioned interpretations, With a relatively low crime rate, it is the “easily turned around,” the government however, are no doubt sophisticated ones, “laid back” character of the country, has no idea how.

The one thing Becker does find truly ofsaid Charles Becker, research professor of merged with its relative cultural obscurity, that makes Kazakhstan an easy choice to fensive is Borat’s portrayal of Kazakhstani economics and economic advisor to Kazakhstan’s government. And because the spoof, Becker said. racism toward Jews. Becker, who has traveled next semester,

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While it’s true that the film’s events are incredibly recent for a work so intent on a historical recreation, Frears’ work is less a stale portrait ofa decade ago than it is a reminder of what Blair came to power promising and what he has delivered. It also serves to recognize that even before George W. Bush came along, the prime minister had a strange but undeniable penchant for helping his more powerful allies, even if it meant forgoing additional political capital for himself.

—Brian McGinn

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“To find a truly accepting Muslim society which does not discriminate and then to parody it—that’s what really bugs me because that is so inaccurate,” Becker said. “It’s a lie, and this is something where it is important for Americans in particular to know that there are predominantly Muslim societies that are extremely tolerantand to parody one incorrectly feeds into stereotype and perpetuates misunderstanding.”

For students studying in the United States from Kazakhstan—lo of whom are at Duke —being associated with a skewed reality, satire or not, will stay with them for life, Bekakhmetov said.

“It makes me sad that my religion is associated with Bin Laden and my nation-state with Borat,” he added.

Borat may be a socially irresponsible businessman. Or he may be a social mouthpiece out to undermine prejudice through comedy. Nevertheless, he has acquainted us with a country that might otherwise escape international attention.

Whether his jokes are received with unfiltered acceptance or spark enough interest for a Wikipedia query, Borat has done the impossible. Having moved from cable sketch character to big screen lead, he has penetrated the jaded veneer of the American youth—for better or worse.

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Packed with celebrity interviews including Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart (who boldly takes on the puzzle with a sharpie), the film is a raucous good time. The documentary also features the national crossword puzzle championship, a heated battle of wits and useless information.

With commentary by Director Patrck Creadon and Shortz himself, some truly heart-wrenching puzzles, and—get this—a music video called “Every Word,” this DVD is a must for those who flip to the art section out of reflex.

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caused it to sink into decline. With no rehearsal or performance space, an unenthusiastic public and no unique sound to call its own, the orchestra was struggling, to say the least.

However, this state of decay didn’t sway Neschling, who took over in 1997 as the orchestra’s music director and conductor.

“I always wanted to use my European experience... in my own home and create and practically build up an orchestra from scratch,” said Neschling, who is the grandnephew of both composer Arnold Schoenberg and conductor Arthur Bodanzky. “It’s a challenge that I could not find anywhere else in the world, and being at home and trying to do it in my own backyard is the best way.”

Neschling certainly did rise to the challenge. Since he began leading the orchestra almost a decade ago, it has risen from the depths of obscurity to now being considered the most important symphonic ensemble in Latin America. With unusually young personnel —the average age of the musicians in the orchestra is less than 40—the group has more energy and a faster learning curve than most, Neschling said.

This resilient and vivacious orchestra is bringing strong flavors of Brazilian rhythm, sound and charm to concert halls across America during its 13-city tour. At Duke University, the orchestra will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, and world-renowned Brazilian cellist and member of the Beaux Arts Trio Antonio Meneses, will be joining the orchestra to play a concerto by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

But even if the program isn’t enough to drag you away from your books or your TV, Neschling offers one more reason to see his orchestra Tuesday night.

“I would say it’s also a very handsome, beautiful orchestra with very beautiful boys and girls,” he said. “It’s a great pleasure to look at them as well as listen to them.”

The Orquestra de Sdo Paolo with cellistAntonio Meneses will

perform Tuesday, Nov. 7 at Page Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $42 for reserved seating. For more information, see tickets.duke.edu.

Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney will perform songs from their new disc Magic Potion at Carrboro's Cat's Cradle Thursday.

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“But musically we’re the same band.”

Auerbach is a brilliant, if brusque, guitarist—all muscle and no nuance. Although he cites Junior Kimbrough and Son House as influences, Jimi Hendrix is never far below the surface. Carney isn’t the most intricate of drummers either—think Bonham without the echo—but the duo puts out more sound than ought to be possible for just two guys.

The Black the The stripped-down, no-nonsense attiC tude Auerbach uses when writing songs Thu: translates to his speaking style. He speaks 9: nonchalantly and uses complete sentences Si only when necessary. A simplicity permeates cultivated his words, but it’s a wryly simplicity. Take, for example, his attempt to describe the new disc “Oh s—, I have no idea, man. I wouldn’t try to describe it. I’d just say, ‘lt’s a rock ‘n’ roll record, here it is, listen to it yourself.’ Everyone has a different idea, everyone’s classification or something is different.”

Some critics are not so measured as he. From Tucson to Glasgow, writers have repeatedly connected that rawness to the Keys’ roots in the post-industrial wasteland of Akron, Ohio. In fact, Auerbach comes from a family of illustrious Akron ex-pats, from philosopher W.V. Quine to pioneering punk guitarist Robert Quine. For him, it’s not what the city has but what it lacks that makes it special.

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ment thing that’s really crucial to the sound of the Black Keys,” he said. “Other than that, it’s reallyjust being isolated. It’s just the luxury of not having the new craze pushed

on you every week like you do in L.A. or New York City.

You can kind of sit and think uninterrupted.”

Even though Magic Potion was recorded for Warner Bros, subsidiary Nonesuch, it doesn’t fall into all the storied major-label snares. Like its predecessors, the disc was recorded at Carney’s studio, and like the rest, it features artwork by his brother Mike.

All that seems to have changed is the size of the checks they’ll be receiving.

Auerbach said the major gave them less trouble and more control than their previous record company, the small indie blues label Fat Possum.

For once, he lets slip a modicum of emotion, granting a brief glimpse into how excited he is to hit the big time.

“We’d fulfilled our contract, we were free agents and we just wanted to see what was available,” he said. “I think when we saw that Nonesuch was available, we were really excited. I know I was—it’s one ofmy favorite record labels.”

But when asked how he’d promote the Cradle gig to Duke students, he closed up again, and the wry, detached mask came back.

“It depends on who they are, ’cause I’d tell an appropriate lie—a college guy, I’d tell him there were naked girls,” he said. “If it was a girl, I’d say, ya know, that Johnny Depp was going to be there.” '

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UNIVERSAL/REPUBLIC It’s been 24 years since their last effort and only half the band is alive, but The Who have returned with a new album, Endless Wire. They’ve managed to replicate the feel of their classic era: synths all around, complex and self-referential lyrics and a rock opera about music unifying the world. It’s just like old times.

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—Aaron Carpenter This is what would happen if M.I.A. moved back to London and spent too much time with the Streets; She’d hang on tight to the dance-driven beats, turn up the thick British accent and develop the dirtiest little mouth in town. She would, in all telling measures, be MC Lady Sovereign.

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lic radar and are suddenly greeted with lower expectations. Thus, if one were casually to mention that Meat Loaf was putting out a new album, one might be met with questions such as “Who?” and “Isn’t he dead?” (The answers being, An iconic actor and musician still topping the charts in Europe, and No, he is not dead.) Despite MeatLoaf s popular perception as a has-been, Bat Out of Hell

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delivers on her heavily anticipated U.S. debut, Public Warning.

After success in the U.K. with a pair of EPs, the ST” grenade has recently blown away the stateside scene with “Love Me or Hate Me,” a single in which she ruthlessly criticizes her least flattering physical attributes, shamelessly endorses her most, and then proclaims the attitude of the entire album: “If you love me then thank you/Ifyou hate me then f—you.”

Turns out it’s love: Look for Sov in Verizon Wireless promos, on upcoming episodes of The OC and even during TRL countdowns. You’re welcome.

—Daniel Riley

Willie Nelson has the incredible ability to play country-pop that doesn’t sound like country-pop. Songbird, his latest album, explores Southern music, from an Allman Brothers Southern-rock feel to a gospel choir vibe, while maintaining a traditional country backdrop with Nelson’s smooth-gravel voice.

His laughter at the end of the first track sets the friendly tone of the Ryan Adams-produced album. Nelson sticks to his guns with country ballads like “Back to Earth” and “Stella Blue.” The most stylized (lap steel guitar included) of them all, “Your Love,” surprises with quiet but piercing distorted guitars that, if louder, could easily end an Oasis live show. The classic cover “Hallelujah” features Leonard Cohen’s

KEVIN FEDERLINE PLAYING WITH FIRE REINCARNATE

HI: The Monster is Loose is actually a very impressive piece of musicianship. The harmonies, chords, instrumentation and melodies are exceedingly gorgeous and reminiscent of a rock musical.

Considering that Meat Loaf started his career in theater, the lasting influence is understandable.

The mere mention of his name may inspire giggles, and the outlandish lyrics make reference to butchers, bats and mobsters. But this album is sure to be a guilty pleasure for anyone who enjoys a great Broadway show.

—Dina Graves

Just as we look back with awe and fascination at ancient pyramids, those of the future will be enthralled when they experience Playing With Fire, Kevin Federline’s diamond-quality debut album. A gifted lyricist, Federline delivers, with clarity and passion, lines such as “Hand your ass to you in a basket wrapped in plastic” and “I’m loony, all these model chicks wanna do me.” The man is, without a doubt, the crown jewel of our modern age.

After a short intro—a montage of critics questioning his ability to rap and to be a good father—K-Fed jumps into a lyrical storm, expressing the despair and frustrations of a man who, bursting with talent

original lyrics with Jeff Buckley’s melodic vocal style, adding shiver-inducing marching snare and background vocals. Songbird demonstrates excellent songwriting and relaxed humor throughout, such as when QNelson sings, “Sad songs and waltzes aren’t selling this year,” on an album filled with weepy ballads. Let’s hope he’s wrong.

—Colin Tierney

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Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi Band Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts Thursday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.

Bluesy husband and wife rock out in a classy concert hall.

The Urban Sophisticates with DirtySThirty The Pour House Friday, Nov. 3, 10 p.m.

Two local hip-hop staples showcase theireclecticism.

Roman Candle Cat’s Cradle Wednesday, Nov. 8, 8:30 p.m.

Soulful Chapel Hill-based rockers come home to close out East Const tour.

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