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Duke in the News: June 7, 2007

Tribunals Seen as Only Way to Try Terrorists | Breast Tumors Differ in Women Under 45 | Column: Could Magic Fans Get 'Refund' on Donovan? | and more

TRIBUNALS SEEN AS ONLY WAY TO TRY TERRORISTS Los Angeles Times, June 7 -- Scott Silliman, a Duke law professor who advised the congressional officials who drafted the Military Commissions Act, discusses rulings halting the pending trials of the first two defendants under the act. ... Full story

BREAST TUMORS DIFFER IN WOMEN UNDER 45 Washington Times, UPI, June 6 -- Women under 45 develop breast cancer that tends to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than cancer in older women, found a Duke study. ... Full story

COLUMN: COULD MAGIC FANS GET 'REFUND' ON DONOVAN? CNBC, June 6 -- New season ticket holders of the NBA's Orlando Magic, motivated by early news that Billy Donovan was coming to coach the team, don't have a legal case for a refund now that Donovan has decided to stay at the University of Florida, says Duke law school professor Paul Haagen. ... Full story

COLUMN: FEDERAL INTRUSION IN COLLEGE ACCREDITATION MUST BE RESISTED (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, June 7 -- A Florida professor who takes to task U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings for efforts to federalize higher education accreditation finds support in remarks by Duke Vice Provost Judith Ruderman. ... Full story

BANK TO BUILD ‘GREEN' BRANCHES WUNC Radio News, June 6 -- Fuqua strategy professor Michael Lenox discusses Wachovia's new environmental initiatives. ... Full story

HOPE IS IN RESPONSES Vital Theology, May 30 -- Alumni of the Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation, a two-week summer program for selected high school students to live in an intentional Christian community on the Duke campus, discuss where they looked for help in the days after the Virginia Tech shootings. ... Full story

MARTHA CLARKE OPENS ADF WITH HER UPDATED 'GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS' (Durham) Herald-Sun, June 7 -- American Dance Festival audiences at Duke this week may experience both Paradise and Hades when Martha Clarke presents her updated version of "Garden of Earthly Delights." ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Independent Weekly: ADF 2007 Company Profiles ... Full story

ON THE AIR Fuqua finance professor John Graham appears on CNBC's Closing Bell program today to discuss second-quarter results of the Duke University/CFO Business Outlook, a survey of more than 800 chief financial officers around the world. The segment will air between 4:30-5:00 p.m. ... Program website Gavan Fitzsimons, professor of marketing and psychology at Duke, will be a guest Friday on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things" to discuss the science behind "product contagion." (Details to be posted.) ... http://wunc.org/tsot/