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Changing times at Hatteras - and everywhere[May 22, 2006] "Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America," a recent book by Tom Carlson, is set on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The book’s story of a family business in changing times might have taken place in another part of our state where growth and development have brought new ways and new people into the mix.
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Real Fiction or the illusion of political dramatics?[May 8, 2006] “At a certain point reality burst through,” New York Times columnist Frank Rich said when he was in North Carolina a couple of months ago. In a speech on the Carolina campus, Rich described a shift in the focus of American media from finding and reporting the facts to delivering “drama” to readers and viewers. Today’s American media consumers want compelling stories more than they want “just the facts, ma’am” reports that characterized newspapers before USA Today and before the 24-hour cable news channels on television.
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The next Bill Friday[May 1, 2006] “Who is going to be the next Bill Friday?” At an event to celebrate 35 years of UNC-TV’s weekly program “North Carolina People,” someone looked me in the eye and asked that question.
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Looking for another "Cold Mountain"[Apr. 24, 2006] North Carolina readers have been waiting for Charles Frazier’s second book. His first, “Cold Mountain,” published in 1997, captivated us with its power and depth. Four million people bought the book, and more saw the movie. We are proud that Charles Frazier set his best selling book in his home state. Last week, we learned that Frazier’s new novel, “Thirteen Moons,” will come out in October.
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Cyrano De Begerac, Reynolds Price, and our small towns and farms[Apr. 17, 2006] I saw Reynolds Price from a distance the other night. The famed North Carolina author, though permanently bound up in a wheel chair, had made his way to the front row at the opening night of “Cyrano De Bergerac,” the newest Playmakers production in Chapel Hill. Seeing Price in person reminded me how important he is to the North Carolina literary tradition as an author, thinker, teacher, and inspirer of others.
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We're about to learn more about Virginia politics[Apr. 10, 2006] What do North Carolinians know about Virginia politics? Given the long border between the two states, the fact that the first permanent European settlers came to our state by way of Virginia, the similar agricultural and manufacturing traditions, and the easy access between the two states on I-85, I-95 and US 17, you would think that we would learn a lot from each other.
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What about the soldiers' families?[Mar. 20, 2006] The spouses and children of our servicemen and women are making huge sacrifices these days. Surely, nobody disagrees with this statement. But most of us do not understand the magnitude of these sacrifices. Nor do we spend much time finding out the specific strains on military families.
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Politics and religion: Who got it right?[Feb. 27, 2006] What is the best title of a recent book? My candidate is “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It,” the best seller written by Jim Wallis, a Washington- based Christian minister who is at Duke University this week (Friday, March 3) for The American Values Summit.
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