What book for the perfect gift this season?
Have you seen the TV ad with George Foreman? “People ask me all the time, George, how do I get my...
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D.G. Martin
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Chapel Hill in the Bush 41 Biography
“Were you surprised that so much of the public attention to your book has been focused on...
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Our holiday longing for home
“There is something about the holidays,” says Chapel Hill minister Bob Dunham, “that stirs...
Read MoreThanksgiving and Happiness
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Why? One reason is that it is one of the very few days we have saved just for families and friends. We have done a better job of keeping the Thanksgiving holiday from getting away from us. It...
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Celebrating connections to winners of the North Carolina Awards
Finally, something to brag about, I thought as I made my way to the annual dinner for the...
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An important author’s struggles can help his readers
You can’t go home again. This is what Thomas Wolfe learned after his thinly disguised...
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Pushing Spellings into the pantheon, not the trash bin
Let’s help her all we can. That is what I am telling my friends in the university community...
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Who said this about whom?
The candidate “has the knack of doing things and doing them noisily, clamorously; while he is in...
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Good for Nicholas Sparks, good for North Carolina
“My books are all different,” Nicholas Sparks, the No. 1 New York Times best selling author who...
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Wearing a Black Doctor’s White Coat
“Why do black people suffer more health problems than other groups? What do these challenges mean...
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