October 13, 2004

A LONG ROAD FOR MAN BEHIND THE CASE FROM TEXAS Los Angeles Times, Oct. 13 -- Thomas Van Orden has asked Erwin Chemerinsky, a Duke University constitutional scholar, to handle oral arguments in the Ten Commandents case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Full story --Also, Los Angeles Times: High Court Tackles Religion Full story Buffalo News: High court to Hear Case on Ten Commandments Full story

OP-ED: IN DEBATE, STYLE IS THE SUBSTANCE (Walnut Creek, Calif.) Contra Costa Times, Oct. 13 -- Richard O'Dor, a lecturer in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and director of the debate team, says the candidates know that style is substance. (Free registration; e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story --Also, News & Observer: Debate Strategies (Duke political science professor Jerry Hough) (Article not available online; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)

DUKE VIGIL MEMORIALIZES TERRORISM VICTIMS (Durham) Herald-Sun, Oct. 13 -- A vigil at Duke held in front of the remains of a bombed-out Jerusalem city bus memorializes the victims. Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Photo -- Under the Victims' Watch (Photo not available online; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Duke News: Focus on the PSM Conference Full story

STEM CELL RESEARCH MOVES TO CENTER STAGE (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Oct. 13 -- Huntington Willard, who heads Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, says both political parties are looking to score political points with the stem cell research issue. Full story

COMMENTARY: TO EXPAND HEALTH COVERAGE, DEREGULATE HEALTH CARE Cato Institute, Oct. 12 -- Center for Health Policy researcher Christopher J. Conover says there is little discussion of one policy response that would significantly lower health care costs. (Originally published in Investor's Business Daily.) Full story

COLUMN: WANNA FIX HEALTH CARE? STOP HIDING THE COST! Wall Street Journal, Oct. 13 -- Duke Law's Clark Havighurst discusses the consequences of the health-care cost "shell game" in which politicians spend public money on health care in ways the public would never choose for itself. (Link for subscribers; article e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story

DUKE TO PRESERVE PART OF FOREST (Raleigh) News & Observer, Oct. 13 -- Duke offers assurances that the most environmentally important parts of Duke Forest will remain untouched. Full story

STUDENT LETTER-WRITERS GAME 'NYT' Editor & Publisher, Oct. 13 -- A group of high school students in a summer program at Duke managed to get several letters published in The New York Times -- some under false pretenses -- at the urging of a professor, an editor for the newspaper said. Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Teens Get 17 Letters in N.Y. Times Full story

URBAN BUSH WOMEN CELEBRATES 20 YEARS New York Times, Oct. 12 -- Duke anthropology professor and former Urban Bush Women dance company member Deborah Thomas noted that "the company is always dancing about something" of significance. Full story

MEL GIBSON AND THE DEMISE OF ENLIGHTENED SKEPTICISM (New York) Forward, Oct. 8 -- Bernard Avishai, a visiting professor of business and public policy at Duke, wonders why so many "seem so helpless to appreciate the doubt that engenders tolerance." Full story

THE MISSING QUAKE The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 8 -- A team led by Peter E. Malin, a professor of seismology and of civil and environmental engineering at Duke, expects to get good data from seismometers placed into the San Andreas Fault. Full story