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Duke in the News: May 14, 2004

'Torture,' Setting Limits in Times of War | Bush Doesn't Warm to New Disaster Movie | Duke May Try Blood Mimic, and more

'TORTURE,' SETTING LIMITS IN TIMES OF WAR ABC News Nightline, May 12 -- Poet, playwright and Duke professor Ariel Dorfman says the U.S. should publish all the names and whereabouts of people it has detained. (Transcript upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)

BUSH DOESN'T WARM TO NEW DISASTER MOVIE (South Africa) Independent Online, May 14 -- "Hollywood time is not, obviously, the same as geological time," says Duke oceanographer Susan Lozier, commenting on a summer movie that extrapolates on basic scientific theories about global warming. ... Full story

DUKE MAY TRY BLOOD MIMIC (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 14 -- Duke researchers hope to test a synthetic blood substitute this summer in a proposed clinical trial. ... Full story

INAUGURATION OF JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN AWARDS COINCIDES WITH ANNIVERSARY Ohio News Network, May 12 -- New education awards are named for Duke historian John Hope Franklin, a member of the historical research team that helped Brown v. Board attorneys craft the school desegregation arguments. ...Full story

IS BUSH GOOD FOR ISRAEL? The (Los Angeles) Jewish Journal, April 30 -- Bruce Jentleson, director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, said the American Jewish community "is too readily equating Bush's agreeing with Sharon on all issues with acting in Israel's security interests." ...Full story

CITY SEEKING DUKE'S AID (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 14 -- The City of Durham and Duke University have diverged on the city manager's request that Duke make a sizable annual contribution to the city. ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke: City Request 'Unrealistic' Full story Herald-Sun: Editorial: City Makes a Case for In-lieu Dollars Full story

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION Wall Street Journal, May 13 -- Mike Krzyzewski, men's head basketball coach at Duke, will help select the winners of the CNBC/Wall Street Journal Executive Leadership Awards. (Link for subscribers; article e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke law professor Scott Silliman is scheduled to appear live on CNN today at 1:30 p.m. ET to discuss the upcoming military trials of those facing Abu Ghraib prison abuse charges. ...Full story