AUGUSTO PINOCHET: VILLAIN TO SOME, HERO TO OTHERS

NPR's All Things Considered, Dec. 10 -- Chilean-American writer and Duke professor Ariel Dorfman reflects on the legacy of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, who died Sunday. He was a test case in international law, Dorfman says. ... Full story
--Also, Miami Herald: Chilean Ex-Dictator Pinochet Dies ... Full story
Australian Broadcasting's The World Today: Chilean Dictator Denied State Funeral ... Full story

AN EARLY START IN RESEARCH

(Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 10 -- Few undergraduates are as successful as Felicia Walton, a 20-year-old Duke senior from Asheville, but her experience in the lab is not all that unusual. ... Full story

DUKE'S GLOBAL HEALTH CENTER LANDS $5M GIFT

(Raleigh) Triangle Business Journal, Dec. 8 -- Duke's Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health has received a $5 million gift from the Hubert Family Trust of Atlanta, the university announced Friday. ... Full story

ATHLETES SEE DOPING CASE APPEALS AS FUTILE EXERCISE

Los Angeles Times, Dec. 11 -- The standards for relief in the international sports arbitration system are ambiguous and "virtually impossible to meet" in practice, says Jessica K. Foschi, who studies legal issues in doping at Duke Law School. ... Full story

HOMOPHILY

The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 10 -- A concept that Duke sociologist Lynn Smith-Lovin has written about has been repeatedly invoked to explain the American electorate's apparent polarization into equally self-regarding camps. ... Full story

STUDENT FOUND DEAD HAD SPIRIT

News & Observer, Dec. 9 -- Family and friends remember Duke medical student Rajesh Rajan Das for his humor, intellect and warmth. ... Full story

COMMENTARY: EXPLORING COPTIC ORTHODOXY

United Methodist Reporter, Dec. 6 -- A few weeks ago, Divinity School student Andrew C. Thompson walked into St. Mark's Cathedral in the heart of Cairo. What he found inside "was simply astounding." ... Full story