SUPREME COURT STEPS INTO MEDICARE RX FIGHT

USA Today, March 4 -- Neil Siegel, a Duke law professor, doubts the Supreme Court will take the unusual step of intervening to resolve a dispute between states and the federal government over the costly new Medicare prescription drug program. (The AP story also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and more than 215 other news sources.) ... Full story

HOROWITZ RETURNING TO DUKE WITH SIGHTS ON FACULTY

(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 6 -- Political commentator David Horowitz's visit to Duke this week will be his first sojourn onto a university campus since the release of his new book, "The 101 Most Dangerous Academics In America." ... Full story

BASKETBALL AS RELIGION

Bloomberg News, March 6 -- Will Blythe traces the origin of the UNC-Duke rivalry in his book, "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever." ... Full story
--Also, News & Observer: Book Review -- A Fan's Notes -- Exploring the Passions and Legacies That FireCollege Basketball's Greatest Rivalry ... Full story
USA Today: Redick Feels the Heat as Fishbowl Career Nears End ... Full story
News & Observer: Redick on Roster for Team USA ... Full story

DUKE VALUES SUMMIT TOPICS BREAK NORM

(Durham) Herald-Sun, March 4 -- Evangelical Christian activist Jim Wallis, speaking at Duke Chapel on Friday, says he sees a new generation of prophets rising up across the country -- one concerned with poverty more than any other moral value. ... Full story
--Also, News & Observer: Left Tries to Regain Religion ... Full story

GETTING WARMER IN BID TO KILL TUMORS

The Boston Globe, March 6 -- Hyperthermia could turn out to be among the most powerful anticancer weapons yet. Duke doctors are studying one such approach. ... Full story

OP-ED: DO WE WANT THIS NUCLEAR WASTE?

News & Observer, March 6 -- Lucy Roberts Henry, a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and a graduate student at Duke's NicholasSchool of the Environment and Earth Sciences, says we should be wary of nuclear power as long as the waste problem remains unsolved.
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DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST BLASTS GOP

Herald-Sun, March 5 -- Democratic strategist James Carville brought his bald-headed, quirky-faced brand of insightful punditry and acerbic wit to Duke on Saturday. ... Full story

ON THE AIR

Duke professor Tom Rankin at the Center for Documentary Studies joined a discussion Monday on "The State of Things" about the reliability of eyewitness accounts and photo line-ups for law enforcement. Listen to a rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET on WUNC Radio or to archived audio on the web. ... Details