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Duke in the News: May 7, 2004

Prison Abuse Accountability | In Islam, Abu Ghraib Photos Are Incendiary | Baboons Give Peace a Chance, and more

PRISON ABUSE ACCOUNTABILITY NPR's All Things Considered, May 6 -- Scott Silliman, a Duke University law professor and former Air Force lawyer, talked about the range of punishments that could face those found responsible for abuses in Iraqi prisons. (Link to audio; transcript e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) ...Full story --Also, WRAL.com: Duke Professor: Iraqi Prisoner Abuse May Damage U.S. Credibility (Silliman) Full story

IN ISLAM, ABU GHRAIB PHOTOS ARE INCENDIARY Kansas City Star, May 7 -- More than just sexual mores were violated in the abuse of Iraqi detainees, said Duke religion professor Ebrahim Moosa, co-director of the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks at Duke. (Free registration required.) ... Full story --Also, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune: Prisoner Abuse Assaults Muslim Values (Moosa) Full story

BABOONS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE (St. Paul) Pioneer Press, May 7 -- Kenneth Dodge, a clinical psychologist at Duke who studies aggression in children, sees in new research hope for changing human cultures. (Free registration required.) ... Full story --Also, Tallahassee Democrat: Baboons Give Peace a Chance Full story

PRISONER RELEASED IS MAN HAUNTED (Durham) Herald-Sun, May 7 -- A panel discussion last night at the Center for Documentary Studies coincided with a month-long exhibit by Taryn Simon, "The Innocents," which includes stark photos of men and women who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. ...Full story

Q&A: REVAMP INTELLIGENCE STRUCTURE AND CULTURE (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 2 -- Theodore Triebel, a career naval officer and visiting lecturer in public policy studies at Duke, talked about what's needed to create a coherent U.S. intelligence community. ...Full story

COLUMN: BARRY AND BALL FOUR -- IT'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN San Francisco Chronicle, May 6 -- Duke professor Jerry Reiter, who has, for reasons his mathematical colleagues must find stupefying, carefully analyzed the Barry Bonds base-on-balls issue. ... Full story