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Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Chapel Hill in the Bush 41 Biography

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 1, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“Were you surprised that so much of the public attention to your book has been focused on President George H.W. Bush’s unflattering comments about the roles of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney...

Our holiday longing for home

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 24, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“There is something about the holidays,” says Chapel Hill minister Bob Dunham, “that stirs memories and longing for home. “Even if they are better in memory than they were in reality.” He explained that student homesickness is...

Thanksgiving and Happiness

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 21, 2015 | D.G. Martin

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...

Celebrating connections to winners of the North Carolina Awards

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 17, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Finally, something to brag about, I thought as I made my way to the annual dinner for the presentation of this year’s North Carolina Awards. These awards recognize contributions in the fields of fine art, literature, public...

An important author’s struggles can help his readers

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 10, 2015 | D.G. Martin

You can’t go home again. This is what Thomas Wolfe learned after his thinly disguised autobiographical novel cast some of his family and neighbors in Asheville in unflattering roles. It is always dangerous for a successful...

Pushing Spellings into the pantheon, not the trash bin

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Let’s help her all we can. That is what I am telling my friends in the university community when they express displeasure at the selection of Margaret Spellings as their new president, or when they complain about the UNC...

Who said this about whom?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 27, 2015 | D.G. Martin

The candidate “has the knack of doing things and doing them noisily, clamorously; while he is in the neighborhood the public can no more look the other way than the small boy can turn his head away from a circus parade followed...

Good for Nicholas Sparks, good for North Carolina

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 20, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“My books are all different,” Nicholas Sparks, the No. 1 New York Times best selling author who lives in New Bern, told a group of 500 fans at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Alumni Center last week. Except, he says, for two things. One is...

Wearing a Black Doctor’s White Coat

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 12, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“Why do black people suffer more health problems than other groups? What do these challenges mean in their everyday lives? How do their struggles play out before a largely white medical community? How can we begin to solve these...

Jim Martin as a Catalyst

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 6, 2015 | D.G. Martin

I know the kind of candidate the Republicans need to beat Hillary Clinton or any other Democratic candidate in next fall’s presidential election. It is not any of those running now. That party needs somebody smart who can get...

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