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Cary Allred's burial ovation[Jun. 21, 2009] You remember Marc Antony’s speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, beginning with: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” Should it be this way for Cary Allred, whose recent political suicide and resignation from the state house of representatives was the center of attention in the state’s political news last month?
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Tear down the Lincoln Memorial?[Jun. 20, 2009] After reading an important and provocative new book about Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about the proper role of freed blacks in post-slavery times, I wondered if somebody will propose that we tear down the Lincoln Memorial. In “‘What Shall We Do with the Negro?’ Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America,” Wake Forest history professor Paul Escott discusses the wide variety of opinions in Civil War times about what to do with blacks after the war ended.
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North Carolina's most influential political figure[Jun. 15, 2009] A lot of people think that the big Walter Davis Library at UNC-Chapel Hill is named after the great basketball player. Ned Cline, the biographer of the Walter Davis for whom the building is actually named, tells how one Chapel Hill student told another that “the library should not have been named for Walter Davis, because Phil Ford was a much better basketball player for the Tar Heel team.”
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Memories surround us at graduation time[May 26, 2009] While many other families are celebrating or preparing to celebrate a child’s graduation, my family waits to celebrate the birth of my daughter’s third child. But I still remember her college graduation when I wrote the following: Graduations are over. Caps and gowns have been returned to the rental agency - or carefully folded and put in the top of the closet to save along with other treasures that won't be used again anytime soon.
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Good schools -- The one magic answer?[Mar. 24, 2009] What really makes for good schools? At a recent conference organized for North Carolina Editorial Writers, the organizer, Ferrel Guillory, Director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Program on Public Life, presented this question for discussion. To help, he brought several top education experts, including J.B. Buxton, the former deputy school superintendent in charge of day-to-day operations at the Department of Public Instruction; Judith Rizzo, Executive Director of the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy; and Bill McDiarmid, Dean of UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Education.
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Remembering where we were this Tuesday[Jan. 21, 2009] Where were you on January 20, 2009? It is a question we will be asking each other just like we have heard people asking others where they were on December 7, 1941, when they heard about Pearl Harbor. Or where they were when they heard about and celebrated the end of World War II? Where were they on November 22, 1963, when they heard about the assassination of President Kennedy? Who were they with when they watched the funeral parade on television a few days later? Where were they on September 11, 2001, and with whom did they spend the rest of the day?
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Looking for real scandal—Read about Bumcombe Bob[Aug. 19, 2008] Given all the unwelcome publicity about former senator John Edwards, it is hard to believe that only a few years ago I wrote a column that began, “Don't you wish sometimes that North Carolina had some ‘interesting’ political characters who were just a little bit ‘naughty’?”
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North Carolina's greatest Confederate general[Jun. 17, 2008] Who was the greatest North Carolina general in the Civil War? Wait a minute, you say, we don’t play those games anymore. You think it’s time we put aside our glorifying the horrible Civil War that tore our country into two factions that waged war on each other for four terrible years.
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Take a trip with me to Saluda[Jun. 6, 2008] I would like to take you on a trip to one of North Carolina’s too often overlooked charming little mountain towns, Saluda. It’s a few miles south of Asheville, just off I-26 and not far from the South Carolina line.
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Why won't she quit?[May 27, 2008] Why doesn’t Hillary quit? People ask me this question all the time these days. I have learned to be careful how I answer that question. If my response somehow suggests that either Senator Clinton and Senator Obama is not entitled to the nomination, or not yet entitled to it, I may be in for an argument, one that I would just as soon avoid.
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