Duke in the News: July 19, 2004

THE DEMOCRATS' 'POSTER BOY' Los Angeles Times, July 19 -- Spotlighting his Vietnam service "helps sell Kerry in Wal-Mart America," says Peter Feaver, a Duke University political scientist who studies public opinion on military issues. (Free registration required.) ...Full story --Also, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Campaign 2004: Can Kerry Capitalize on Iraq? (Feaver) Full story (Ft. Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel: Absentees May Swing Election (Feaver) Full story

OP-ED: VALUES AREN'T SOLUTIONS (Raleigh) News & Observer, July 18 -- The 2004 election "is on the verge of being transformed, by both sides, into a competition over loyalty oaths," says Michael Munger, chairman of the political science department at Duke. ... Full story

MARTHA STEWART'S APPELLATE ATTORNEY WELL KNOWN IN LEGAL CIRCLES Newsday, July 17 -- Martha Stewart hired Walter Dellinger, a 63-year-old Duke University law professor who argued cases before the Supreme Court for the Clinton administration as acting solicitor general in the mid-1990s, specifically for the appeal. ...Full story --Also, (New York) WINS Radio: Martha's Next Sales Pitch to Appeals Court Full story CNN: Martha Stewart Sentenced (Dellinger) (Transcript upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)

RENOWNED PREACHER TO LEAD METHODISTS Birmingham News, July 18 -- Duke University Chapel Dean William Willimon, one of the nation's top Methodist theologians, a prolific author and internationally acclaimed preacher, was named Saturday as the new bishop of United Methodists in North Alabama. ...Full story --Also, Winston-Salem Journal: Duke Theologian New United Methodist Bishop for North Alabama Full story Indianapolis Star: Indiana Methodists receive new spiritual leader (Duke Divinity School alumnus Michael J. Coyner) Full story

SUPREME COURT CREATES SEISMIC SHIFT IN LEGAL SYSTEM San Francisco Chronicle, July 18 -- Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor at Duke University and part-time defense lawyer, comments on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expands the right to a jury trial on sentencing issues. ... Full story

BACK IN 1896, A BACKWARD REVIVAL Philadelphia Inquirer, July 18 -- "The very structure of the Olympics is all about reinforcing the idea of each nation as a separate entity," says Orin Starn, an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Duke. (Free registration required.) ... Full story

OFFICE DOORS EDIFY, ENTERTAIN (Raleigh) News & Observer, July 19 -- Richard Lischer, a professor at the Duke Divinity School, is among faculty who offer tidbits to ponder. ... Full story