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drew record numbers Attendance numbers for the Nasher Museum of Art’s “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III” did not meet an ambitious goal set one year ago.

Although the 73,834 visitors who toured the show fell short of a 100,000-person target, officials said they were pleased with attendance and deemed the exhibit a success, citing the attention it brought to the museum and to Duke.

“When 70,000 people come through the Nasher Museum to see a show, that’s a spectacular number,” said Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts. “I’m very proud that the Nasher has taken this on, and it really helps establish the Nasher and Duke as a center for the arts.”

The 100,000-person target was an estimate based on the proceeds the museum would need to cover the approximately $1 million cost of the show, but ticket sales only garnered $462,000, according to The Associated Press.

Kim Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher, said officials were unsure what to expect in attendance.

“We were able to cover a significant portion of these costs through admissions revenue, membership and museum store revenues, audioguide sales and contributions to support the exhibition,” she said.

The AP cited Rorschach as saying the Nasher might have to cut costs elsewhere as

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MichelleRhee, chancellorof the Washington D.C. public school system, discusses education reform before a full Fleishman Commons Monday. Rhee's teacher compensation plan has attracted much controversy.

Rhee pushes contentious education reform policy

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When it comes to school reform, Michelle Rhee doesn’t care what you think.

The chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system has had about enough of adult opinions and adult priorities.

“It’s our kids who have no due process,” she said. “We still allow the color of a child’s skin and their zip-code to dictate the quality of their education, and that’s the biggest social injustice imaginable.”

Rhee, 38, has set off a firestorm of controversy among education reformers with her bold plans to overhaul the

school system in D.C., widely regarded as one of the worst districts in the nation.

But Monday night, she played to a different crowd.

Filling every level of the building, membersof the Duke community packed the Fleishman Commons at the Terry Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy to hear Rhee speak about her experiences in the field ofurban public education, and to ask their own questions of the young leader who has made a name for herself in the education world as a scrappy, nononsense reformer.

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Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, departed for Moscow early Monday morning, zigzagging the globe in his third trip overseas in the last month.

Sheppard paid visits to India with President Richard Brodhead and China with Provost Peter Lange in October, leaving the Gothic Wonderland far behind but keeping the Fuqua name in tow. The trips have been geared toward cultivating the brand abroad Duke Blair Sheppard and, more immediately, laying plans for the Cross-Continent MBA Program sites scheduled to open next August.

Although a Fuqua outpost in St. Petersburg is in the works, finalizing plans for the site will be asecondary focus of Sheppard’s trip to Moscow, said Elizabeth Hogan, assistant dean for marketing and communications. Instead, Sheppard will forge ties with Valery Katkalo—dean of the Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg State University, the University’s partner by participating in a panel discussion on globalization and participating in several interviews with Russian media.

“The purpose [of the trip to Moscow] is to. meet with corporate leaders,” Hogan said. “We’re trying to build a Duke brand —

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The NasherV'El Greco toVelazquez" exhibitattracted about 74,000 visitors,falling short ofits goal of 100,000.

Above the West Union Building, unbeknownst to most students, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee meets weekly to discuss issues that impact almost everything on campus related to food.

At its meeting Monday night, Plato’s European Cafe presented DUSDAC with its proposal to establish a new venue on campus. It was one of three restaurants that DUSDAC has heard from in the past month as they try to improve campus dining.

“This is a very exciting time for Duke Dining,” said DUSDAC co-chair Jason Taylor, a junior. “We are very interested in improving the dining experience for all students no matter what that

means.”

Plato said it would bring variety to the current dining options on West Campus by serving homestyle meals as well as gourmet

coffee in a casual, sit-down environment. DUSDAC committee members said they were still in the process of finding a location for such a venue and considering the other options. The committee continually evaluates campus eateries, a practice that lends itself to changes to the Duke dining scene.

The most recent addition to Duke Dining—Chinese restaurant Panda Express, opened at the beginning of this semester incited mixed responses from students, some of whom said they were disappointed by yet another fast food chain on campus.

“We would be serving WaDuke food at Great Hall prices,” said one of the four Plato representatives at the meeting.

DUSDAC also heard a proposal from a group of freshmen participating in the Office of Student Activities and Facilities’ Duke Student Ventures program. Their student-run company —

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It is a gamble that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, emboldened by recent military successes, is willing to take partly because of growing confidence in the capabilities of Iraqi forces.

Tibetan exile talks focus on China

DHARMSALA, India For two decades theTibetan struggle against China has been defined by the Dalai Lama's measured path of compromise. Now, it could be abandoned for the long-held but unlikely dream of

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More than 500 Tibetan exile leaders opened weeklong discussions Monday, the first major re-evaluation of their strategy since the Dalai Lama in 1988 outlined his Nobel Peace Prize-winning "middle way," which pushes for autonomy but not outright independence for the Himalayan region.

The meeting in this northern India hill town, the base of Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile, was called by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

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Obama, who has criticized the use of torture, is being The takeover demonstrates the bandits' heightened urged by some constitutional scholars and human rights ambitions and capabilities: Never before had they seized groups to investigate possible war crimes by the Bush adsuch a large ship so far out to sea. Maritime experts warned ministration. the broad daylight attack, reported by the U.S. Navy on MonTwo Obama advisers said there's little if any chance day, was an alarming sign of the difficulty of patrolling a vast that the incoming president's Justice Department will go afstretch of ocean key to oil and other cargo traffic. ter anyone involved in authorizing or carrying out interrogaThe MV Sirius Star, a brand new tanker with a 25-mem- tions that provoked worldwide outrage. ber crew, was seized at about 10 a.m. Saturday more than 450 nautical mites southeast of Mombasa, Kenya, the Navy Corpse found in sect's said.

MAUSTON, Wis. A member of a religious sect pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor afA Congress clashes over bailout ter being accused of leaving another member's WASHINGTON Prospects dimmed Monday corpse in her bathroom so the group could collect her Social for enactment of a $25 billion bailout for the falterSecurity checks. ing auto industry before year's end, as congressioTammy Lewis entered the plea Monday and was fined $350. nal Democrats and the Bush administration seemed headed Prosecutors say they believe Bushey and Lewis wanted to for a stalemate. go on collecting the victim's Social Security payments.

Help for Detroit's Big Three, which have been battered by the economic meltdown that has choked their sales and frozen their credit, is falling victim to a partisan fight over where /jgpr the money should come from.

Senate Democrats said they would press ahead with their plan to carve out a portion of the $7OO billion Wall Street bailAA out to pay for the loans, but aides in both parties and lobbyists tracking the plan acknowledged they did not currently have the votes to do so.

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Students may want to think twice before they grab a can of Busch Light at a section party or chug a bottled water after a long workout.

A recent study at Duke has added to evidence that suggests a chemical in these common beverage containers could be health hazards.

Randy Jirtle, lead researcher in the study and associate professor in the department of radiation oncology, said he found that the chemical Bisphenol A produces negative effects in mice. The chemical, known as BPA, mimics estrogen and links together to form clear, hard plastic—so it is often found in shatterproof plastic water

bottles and in the linings of aluminum cans, sodas and beers, Jirtle said.

Exposure to harsh conditions, such as acid, high heat or alcohbl causes the BPA to leach into the water, he added.

Only recently have the potentially harmful effects of BPA come under scientific scrutiny. Jirde is one of several researchers who have found the chemical can alter the human epigenome to increase risk of diabetes, obesity and cancer.

The epigenome dictates what our genome should do, much like a computer’s hardware, Jirtle explained.

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The Fuqua School of Business claimed eighth place in BusinessWeek’s biannual “Best B-Schools of 2008” issue, a one-place improvement since it was last ranked by the magazine in 2006.

The school has risen from an 11th place ranking in 2004, and Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant dean for marketing and communications, said she sees even more room for improvement.

“I won’t be happy till we’re rated No. 1 in every dimension,” she said. “We always want them to be better, but we won’t change what we do to make them better.”

Duke bested all other schools below the Mason-Dixon Line, but the University of Chicago’s Booth School ofBusiness topped the list for the second time in a row.

BusinessWeek formulates its rankings by surveying the most recent graduating class and MBA recruiters—which each count for 45 percent of a school’s rating —and evaluating the intellectual capital of the institution, which counts for 10 percent of the rank.

Hogan said she doubts Fuqua’s October announcement of its plans to open five outposts abroad impacted

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HAZARDOUS from page 3 “Think of your epigenorne as the software that tells your body what to do,” Jirtle said. “fßy consuming BPA] in effect you have a program with bugs, even if the hardware is perfectly fine.”

In his study, Jirtle said he fed pregnant mice dqses of BPA similar to the amounts the average person consumes daily. The BPA changed not only the offspring’s coat—from brown to yellow—but also made them more obese and consequently more likely to contract diabetes or cancer, Jirtle said.

Jirtle suggests that people who plan to get pregnant or are in late adulthood should especially avoid BPA because the epigenorne is more sensitive in fetuses and the elderly.

“A very small amount has the potential of a very subtle impact on your bodily functions,” said Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment.

In order to minimize consumption of BPA, Chameides said he suggests avoiding No. 7 plastic bottles, like 5 gallon water bottles, and limiting usage of No. 3 plastics, like juice bottles and cling wrap and No. 6 plastics found in disposable cups and cutlery.

He also recommends not drinking from plastic water bottles or canned foods that have been heated—in a car or a microwave, and not consuming any canned alcoholic beverages

“If you have the option of buying glass instead of plastic, buy glass,” he added.

Although Dr. Dennis Darcey, assistant professor of occupational and environmental medicine, is not an expert on BPA, he said that it is easy to find alternative materials without BPA. “It is up to individuals to avoid using BPA products,” he said.

“If you have the option of buying glass instead of plastic, buy glass.”

Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment Jirtle also mentioned that supplementing your diet with vitamin B-12 and folic acid counters the effects of BPA but should not be considered a solution to the problem.

Darcey added, however, that more research needs to be done before scientists are sure about long-term effects.

It is difficult to extrapolate the BPA phenomenon from mice to humans, Jirtle added.

The bottom line, Chameides said is not to panic but to try to avoid BPA whenever possible.

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MOSCOW from page 1 in Russia.... We’re trying to recruit students to our programs. I’m certain they will talk about [the CrossContinent MBA site], but it is not a formal part of the

agenda.”

Seventy-seven current Fuqua students hail from Russia, and Dan Nagy, associate dean for global business development, will host an alumni reception in Moscow for the 72 Duke alumni currently living in the country, Hogan said. Nagy has been in Russia since Nov. 10 overseeing the planning of the St. Petersburg site.

Sites and partners for the Fuqua outposts in Shanghai and New Delhi have not yet been finalized, but details of the St. Petersburg program are merely being fine-tuned, Hogan said. She attributed Duke’s relatively advanced plans for the Russian outpost to the nature of Fuqua’s partnership with the Graduate School of

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“We’re trying to build a Duke brand in Russia.... We’re trying to recruit students to our programs.

I’m certain they will talk about [the Cross-Continent MBA site].”

Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant dean for marketing and communications Management at St. Petersburg State University.

“We’re not going to be building a campus [in St. Petersburg],” she said. “We’ll be hosting classes in the partner’s space. They have a beautiful campus—the

former palace of the Czar.”

Partnering with an established university has also enabled Fuqua administrators to sidestep the political issues that they have had to take into consideration when planning the sites in Shanghai and New Delhi, Hogan said.

“We are with a partner, so they already went through the problems of building a campus,” she said. “In any case, there are local customs that we will need to be aware of. We’re certainly learning and operating in a culturally sensitive manner.”

Sheppard will return to the U.S. Thursday for “The Duke Idea,” a forum in Boston in which he and Brodhead will discuss the evolution of global markets and the University’s role in the 21st century. Fuqua administrators will visit Russia again early next month, when the St. Petersburg outpost will be formally announced, Hogan said. None of the University’s other graduate or professional schools are planning programming for the St. Petersburg site at this time.

Sheppard will likely travel to the other cities slated for Fuqua expansion—Dubai and London—when the planning is more advanced, Hogan said.

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Hit and run—from the police Police officers arrested a student for driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning, after the student had backed his car into a Duke University Police Department vehicle while trying to drive away.

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No longer foes but not

yet allies, President-elect Barack Obama

and Sen. Jolm.McCain buried their bitter campaign in public smiles and searched for common ground in private Monday, discussing possible collaboration on climate change, immigration, Guantanamo Bay and more.

The 40-minute session at Obama’s transition headquarters, their first meeting since Nov. 4 when Obama handily defeated McCain, was just the latest effort by the president-elect to heal wounds from the long and bitter campaign and seek help from his former rivals. He quietly met here with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday, his toughest rival for the Democratic nomination and now a possible choice for secretary of state.

McCain’s meeting with Obama was less furtive, and aides to both men said no Cabinet post is envisioned for the Arizona senator. Obama has said he plans to invite at least one Republican to join his Cabi-

That’s one thing to do with a hatchet A student used a hatchet to cut holes into the walls of Aycock Residence Hall and was cited for damage to real property.

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A student alleged that another student assaulted him early Saturday morning on Towerview Road near Union Drive.

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Sen. John McCain and President-elect Barack Obama met for the first timesince the Nov. 4 election Monday in Obama's transition office in Chicago.The two discussed energy policy, immigration and torture.

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Like Clinton, McCain knows that returning to the 100-member Senate will impose limits and frustrations after the heady two years of the presidential campaign. For both, a friendly relationship with the new president might open new opportunities in Congress or elsewhere, though they exchanged harsh words with him not long ago.

For Obama, cordial ties to two of the nation’s most famous and successful politicians might smooth the launch of an administration confronting an economic crisis and two wars.

Before Monday’s meeting, Obama said

he and McCain would talk about “how we can do some work together to fix up the country.” He thanked McCain “for the outstanding service he’s already rendered.” ln a joint statement after the meeting, they vowed to work together to reform government and promote bipartisanship in Washington.

Meanwhile, Clinton, who returns to Congress as a fairly junior senator with no immediate prospects for a leadership post, appeared very much in the running for secretary of state. Transition officials said she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were cooperating with a

vetting process, although there were other contenders for the job.

Clinton’s finances and business relationships could pose a conflict of interest for his wife if she became the nation’s top diplomat. Since leaving the White House in 2001, he has amassed a multimilliondollar fortune and built a large international foundation through his ties to corporations and foreign governments.

As for Obama and McCain, they expressed similar views on a number of issues during the campaign, such as the dangers of climate change and a need to ease U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

But I swear I saw smoke!

A student used a fire extinguisher in Epworth Residence Hall and was cited for molesting the fire system at around 4 a.m.

Saturday morning.

Unwelcome room guest A resident of Randolph Residence Hall reported that her laptop was missing from her room early Sunday morning.

From bi to uni A student’s bicycle wheel was stolen Friday morning while it was parked in a rack near the East Union Building.

Failure to yield A graduate student was issued a state citation Saturday for not yielding to a pedestrian.

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“Her parents hoped for her to become a doctor or a lawyer or at worst an investment banker,” President Richard Brodhead said in introducing Rhee. “But in spite of that, she became a teacher.”

Rhee’s meteoric rise to the chancellorship took her down a path familiar to many Duke graduates. After graduating from Cornell University in 1992, she joined Teach For America, a program that sends recent college graduates to some of the nation’s worst sc tools to teach for two

the BusinessWeek rankings, noting that students and MBA recruiters'were surveyed over the summer. But she added that the school’s global vision could give it a boost in the future rankings.

“Certainly we feel that the school’s global strategy is a good investment, but it’s probably too early for any ranking to reflect that strategy,” Hogan said.

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The program currently counts 3,800 first-year teachers among its ranks, and 10* percent of Duke’s Class of 2008 applied lor a spot last year, saitPCaroline Davis, a senior recruitment director for the program. This year, there are 43 former Duke students teaching in the program, which has for several years been one of the largest employers ofrecent Duke graduates.

As for Rhee, she jumped from TFA to graduate school at Harvard University to a job organizing a TFA off-shoot called the New Teacher Project.

Then one day last spring, she got a call from D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. He had a request; He wanted her to take the reins of his city’s struggling schools.

“I said, are you kidding me?” Rhee recalled to the Sanford audience. “There was no worse job I could think of than being an urban superintendent.”

But Fenty wasn’t prepared to give up that easily. He and Rhee eventually struck a deal. He would dissolve the school board and give her nearly full autonomy to nm the district, and she would come to work in the D.C. schools.

Rhee didn’t waste any time. Only weeks into her tenure, she began to slash the jobs

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Michelle Rhee presents her controversial teacher compensation proposal Monday in the Sanford Institute.

Her plan would pay teachers according to how theirstudents improve on standardizedtests. of a group of teachers and administrators who she said were “egregiously incompetent.” Almost immediately after, parents and teachers began to complain, but Rhee was unphased.

She charged forward, unleashing a controversial idea: a pay-for-performance plan that would reward teachers whose students made marked improvements in state and national standardized tests.

“We have lots of teachers in our system who are heroic, who go beyond what they have to do every single day, but the current system doesn’t reward them,” she said.

Her comments generated a stir in the Sanford audience as well. When moderators opened the floor to questions, audience members asked questions about the

economics, sustainability and practical implications ofRhee’s plan.

But Jacob Vigdor, an associate profes-

sor of public policy studies and economics whose research focuses on education reform, said however her initiatives play out, her creativity as a reformer should be lauded.

“There’s only so much you can figure out sitting around talking about hypothetical situations,” he said. “The more people try things, the more we’ll learn.”

Sophomore Nikhil Taneja said he walked away from the speech inspired by Rhee’s tenacity.

“She’s not afraid to say what has to be said,” he said. “She’s putting kids first and that gives me confidence.”

“Certainly we feel that the school's global strategy is a good investment, but it's probably too early for any ranking to reflect that.”

Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant deanfor marketing and communications Continent MBA program’s sites are still being finalized, Hogan said she does not think the University’s improved rank will enhance its position in negotiations with

potential partners.

“I don’t think it will have any bearing on any conversations,” she said. “Duke University is a very good institution on dimensions that are not really ranked.”

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a result of the show’s performance.

Rorschach declined to tell The Chroniclewhat those cuts might be but said a variety of options were on the table.

“El Greco” was based on groundbreaking research by Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks senior curator at the Nasher Work for which she was rewarded with a knighting by the Spanish government this month. The show also appeared at the Museum ofFine Arts in Boston, where it also fell approximately 30,000 visitors short of its target.

Schroth said she was upset with reports by the AP and The (Durham) Herald-Sun characterizing the attendance figures as a major disappointment.

“This show brought so much to the Nasher and to Duke and to Durham,” she said. “People don’trealize this is special. Old masters are differentfrom Impressionists... because their works are 200, 300 years older and more complex.”

Lindroth said the University decided to put on the show aware that it might not break even because of the exhibit’s caliber. He said it is important that universities support projects that might not bring in large revenues.

“You’re speaking to a contemporary composer, and so for me it’s self-evident that arts programming should include unfamiliar repertoires or bodies of work that we judge—and we have experts here—that this is something that’s important,” he said.

Citing coverage in major national newspapers and Schroth’s knighting, Rorschach said “El Greco” was an important step in establishing the Nasher’s name nationwide.

“The exhibition was beautifully presented and of the highest scholarly and artistic quality,” she said. “I believe ‘EI Greco’ was the most important old-master exhibition ever to be presented in the southeast United States. We attracted a huge number of visitors across a broad demographic range—K-12 and college students, adults, people from all over the region, all 50 states and many foreign countries.”

She said there were no definite numbers available on how many students attended the show. However, an open viewing for freshman attracted 2,000, and 800 more came to a second student party. About 20 Duke classes came to the exhibition and 1,800 other student tickets were sold.

Final numbers on the show’s revenues are expected at the end of this week, Schroth said.

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Folk musician Greg Brown performs his soulful balladsabout the American Midwest in Page Auditorium Monday at a DukePerformances event.

DUSDAC from page 1 hopes to incentivize off-campus dining by offering discount cards to freshmen for restaurants within walking distance of East Campus as a supplement to their meal plans. The proposal would give the option of purchasing a discount card at the same time incoming freshmen choose their meal plans.

Though the group provided few details regarding the logistics of the plan, DUSDAC gave feedback on the proposal, suggesting that the group needs to secure approval from dining administration before moving forward.

In addition, representatives from the student group said they felt Duke Dining does not always take student interests into account in making dining decisions.

Taylor and co-chair Sarah Ramig, a senior, said DUS-

DAC hopes to counter this notion by soliciting greater input from undergraduates. They emphasized the need for students to step forward with suggestions and comments through the committee’s Web site and e-mail address.

“I’m excited to make DUSDAC more accessible to students and to begin getting more feedback,” Ramig said.

“Improvement can mean many things to many different students, which makes things difficult.”

To follow through on that promise, committee members discussed a new Merchants on Points survey which will soon be available to students. The survey will ask participants to rate their transactions with each of the Durham-area restaurants who accept food points and provide feedback to the committee.

“I’m excited for the Merchants on Points programs,” Taylor said. “I think [DUSDAC] can greatly improve it for all parties.”

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Citigroup announced Monday that it will cut 53,000 jobs in an effort to cut costs amid the financial crisis, the second-largest layoff since 1993.

NEW YORK Citigroup, widely seen as the sickest Wall Street bank, will make some of the most severe cuts in the history of U.S. business—53,000 Jobs—as it tries to slash costs and get back to basics before it’s too late.

The cuts, which will leave Citi about 20 percent smaller, are the latest step in a stunning remaking of the American banking landscape since the financial meltdown, an upheaval that has included the demise of storied investment houses and the conversion of others into commercial banks.

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit met with employees Monday and laid out the bank’s strategy in stark terms: “We are a bank. What does a bank do? A bank takes deposits and puts them to work by investing and making loans.”

Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which has tracked downsizing since 1993, said Citi’s cuts are the second-most on record. IBM announced in July it was cutting 60,000.

At its peak in 2007, Citi had 375,000 employees.

About half the cuts are expected to come from selling off parts of the business. The bank has already said it would sell Citi Global Services and its German retail banking businesses, and it plans to unload more, a spokesman said. The rest of the cuts are expected to come from layoffs and attrition.

As investors digested that news, financial stocks had a bad day. Citigroup stock fell 63 cents, or more than 6 percent, to $8.89. The Dow Jones industrials, nearing their lowest close since the financial meltdown began in September, lost nearly 224 points to close at 8,273.58.

The government invested $25 billion in Citigroup as part of the financial rescue package. The Treasury Department announced Monday that it had given another $33.6 billion to 21 banks in a second round of payments from the program.

“We are a bank. What does a bank do? A bank takes deposits and puts them to work by investing and making loans.”

Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO Still, the Bush administration has told lawmakers it does not plan to use at least half of the $7OO billion bailout fund, congressional officials said. That would leave President-elect Barack Obama to decide how to use the money when he takes office in January. The Treasury Department said no decision had been made on whether to spend the rest of the money before Bush leaves office.

For Citi, the simple, leaner plan is a noticeable change from earlier in the decade, when banks were making a huge chunk of their profits from complex structured-finance products based on risky debt, like subprime mortgages.

Now those revenues have all but dried up, and Citi is trying to extract itself from exotic debt instruments.

“The shocking thing is that the Wall Street business model, prior to September, is effectively gone. We don’t have any more independent investment banks,” said Lee Pinkowitz, an associate finance professor at Georgetown University Business School.

Pandit told workers the bank was not giving up on investment banking, citing emerging markets as a place that can deliver growth. But the riskiest investment banking businesses are now so slow they can’t support thousands of employees.

As Pinkowitz said, the financial crisis took “what was muscle at one point and created fat.”

Citigroup, which built up through rapid acquisitions over the past two decades, has long been criticized as too sprawling and difficult to manage.

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Junior Gerald Henderson has returned

Cameron Indoor Stadium, armed with his usual array of thunderous dunks and jaw-dropping blocks, but this year, there is one important difference. His wrist brace is gone.

It’s a notable change from last February, when Henderson stepped back onto the floor to face Boston College sporting a black brace on his right wrist only three days after hurting his shooting hand in Duke’s victory over North Carolina Feb. 6.

News of the injury got lost in the excitement surrounding the Blue Devils’ triumph in Chapel Hill. The abrupt addition to Henderson’s gameday ensemble was one of the first worrisome indicators of something gone wrong.

Henderson had tom a ligament in his right hand. Although the lack of media attention on his wrist injury at the time was somewhat perplexing, and everyone involved seemed to downplay its significance, it clearly affected Henderson’s play. The athletic wing was playing his best basketball in the gamesleading up to Feb 6. But in the four-game stretch after the North Carolina win, a period in which Henderson admitted he played “pretty crappy,” he averaged only six points per game, down from his 15-point clip in the previous four contests.

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entire life as a basketball fan flashed before my eyes Sunday, and not because Duke almost lost its first non-conference home game in 62 attempts.

No, my visions weren’t from panic—it’s only November, after all—but rather from this crazy sense of basketball deja vu.

You see, Duke’s nail-biting 82-79 win over Rhode Island conjured up the Meredith images of two of the miinpr most iconic basketball figures stuck in my mind’s eye: Valparaiso’s Bryce Drew and Glenbrook North’s Jon Scheyer.

The first guy was the consummate coach’s son who couldn’t miss a shot en route to a Sweet 16 berth before falling shortof taking down, coincidentally enough, Rhode Island for a place in the Elite 8 in 1998.

The second was one of the greatest slashers I’ve ever seen play live. His floor sense was so astute it always appeared as if every other guy on the court was on a five-second tape delay. He saw passes and openings to the hoop that were invisible to everyone else. And on a freezing Chicago night his Junior season, he lit up my high school’s varsity team to the delight of perhaps everyone in the state, but especially to the Glenbrook North faithful who had been camping out all afternoon for a chance to see the game.

So when Rhode Island’s Jimmy Baron, the coach’s son, and Duke’s Jon Scheyer, the older version of one of the greatest players in Illinois state history, squared off SEE SHINER ON PAGE

Monday Musings, the newest Sports Blog feature, wraps up weekend action Mike Krzyzewski's mentor Bobby Knight sat behind Coach K in Sunday's game

struggled, too.

“You can tell his importance to our by how we played when he was completely healthy and then how we played afterward,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

The Blue Devils compiled an impressive 20-1 record before Henderson was hurt. Afterward, they were 8-5, ending in a disappointing loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The injury was something Henderson could play through—and he did, for Duke’s last 13 games—but it was serious enough to merit surgery in the offseason, especially team

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The Blue Devils will host UNCGreensboro in a first-round matchup Saturday at 1 p.m. at home.

If they win, they would advance to play at ninth-seeded Loyola (Md.) next Tuesday at 1 p.m.

Duke started the season 6-5-1 and seemed to be on the NCAA tournament’s bubble after making it for four straight seasons. The Blue Devils responded by ripping off four wins and a tie before dropping their last two games, including a loss in the ACC tournament.

The Blue Devils lost theirlast game in Koskinen to N.C. State, but now offer their seniors—including ACC Offensive Player of the YearMike Grella—a chance to win in theirlast home game.

The Spartans beat Duke 1-0 in an August exhibition, but trudged to an 8-11-2 record in the Southern Conference.

—from staff reports

Duke received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and will play itsfirst game at home.

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SHINER from page 9 in front of a raucous crowd in Cameron this weekend, I couldn’t help but imagine the two as the reincarnations of Drew and, well, the Scheyer of old.

To be frank, I’ve never seen anyone shoot like Baron did against the Blue Devils—a sizzling 8-for-10 effort from beyond the arc that almost single-handedly lifted his team to victor)'. And to be even more frank, I never thought I’d see Scheyer play again like he did in high school.

Because back when he was being recruited four years ago, I wonderedand even argued with friends over whether Scheyer would ever be more than a catch-andshoot kind of player (albeit a good one) in Duke’s offensive system as it was then.

Through the guard’s first two seasons, it seemed as if this question had salience, that Scheyer had been relegated to the role of long-range shooter. This is not to say he wasn’t a prolific scorer—he averaged double-figure points both years—but the kind of production he had as a freshman and sophomore was differentfrom what he put on display Sunday.

For example, in the 2006-2007 season, Scheyer attempted 167 3-point field goals.

The following season, that number fell to 121. This year, if Scheyer continues shooting treys at the clip he has in his first three games, he’d be on pace to take only 88.

Conversely—and I believe, as a result of his ability to take the ball to the basket— Scheyer is on pace to shatter his total free throw attempt numbers from his first two years at Duke. As a freshman and sophomore, he went to the line 136 and 135 times. If he keeps playing as he has this year, Scheyer would lake 198 trips to the charily stripe.

Again, three games probably isn’t the

of samples (and the guard’s 13-of-13 performance from the line Sunday helps inflate those numbers), but as a point of reference, JJ. Redick took 209 and 256 free throws as a junior and semost statistically significant

I’ve never seen anyone shoot like Baron did, and I never thought I’d see Scheyer play again like he did in high school. nior, respectively. Drawing fouls and getting to the line is what great players do.

Judging by Sunday evening’s performance, Scheyer has the potential to be a great player.

Trailing by three with six seconds left in the first half, Duke had one last shot at the basket. As Kyle Singler prepared to inbound the ball under the Rhode Island basket, I turned to my friend and said the play was going to be for Scheyer. Sure enough, Scheyer received the ball in the backcourt, took it the length of the floor and converted the buzzer-beating layup to bring his team within one.

And it was Scheyer who iced the win for the Blue Devils, sinking two free throws with three seconds remaining to put his team up three and ensure that the best the Rams could do was force overtime.

It seems the kid at whom I.once marveled has become the man Duke needs him to be.

As a junior in high school, Scheyer led his Spartans to a state championship. Now that he’s a junior in college, Scheyer can only hope for deja vu all over again come April in Detroit.

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HENDERSON from page 9 after he re-injured it in Duke’s ACC tournament loss to Clemson March 15.

So at the beginning of April, Henderson undenvent reconstructive surgery to repair the ligament tear in his right wrist.

He had a soft cast on his hand for a month, but even afterward, wasn’t allowed to shoot the ball. Ail told, three and a half months passed before he could play again.

Because of the successful surgery, though, the high-flying junior showed up at the start of this season with his wrist repaired and ready to begin a new campaign.

Not that the Blue Devils were rushing to pin a disappointing finish to 2008 on injury.

When senior GregPaulus was asked ifinjuries, whether announced or unannounced, wore on the team, he was predictably diplomatic.

“Injuries happen, whether they’re in practice, or the games or something happens outside,” Paulus said. “That’s part ofthe nature of the game... and that gives other guys chances to step up and fill a role. I don’t think those types of things impacted [us].”

But make no mistake, the Blue Devils need Henderson to take his game to the next level, and all the pieces are in place for him to do just that. After dealing with the ligament tear last season and a mistaken asthma diagnosis his first year, the junior is finally healthy and eager to prove himself.

Tom ligament and all, the versatile forward had an impressive showing last March, showing tantalizing flashes of brilliance and asserting himself as a leader.

The most striking image of Henderson from the NCAA Tournament might be the wingman’s coast-to-coast finger roll against Belmont with 11 seconds remaining, the play that singlehandedly saved Duke from its second consecutive first-round upset.

And so, hoping thatthoseflashes will bloom

Junior Gerald Henderson played some of thebest basketballofhis career before he came downwith a wrist injury in February that left him hobbledfor the rest of theyear. into a regular force on the court, Krzyzewski appointed Henderson one of the Blue Devils’ three captains in September, along with Panlus and fellow juniorJon Scheyer.

Henderson’s leadership should go a long way toward fillihg the gap left by the departure of former captain Demarcus Nelson. The newly appointed co-captain isn’t shying away from discussing his contribution to the position. Henderson has taken a page out of Nelson’s book, generally leading by example on the floor.

“As a captain, I think I bring more leadership by what I do,” Henderson said. “I feel like Greg’s more of a vocal leader. He’s more of the voice of our team. But myself, I’m more of a ‘do’ captain.”

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alike keying on Henderson this year, it’s clear Krzyzewski also has sky-high hopes for the junior. His praise for Henderson’s potential has been effusive, but cautious.

“If he has good health, then he has a chance to be a very special basketball player,” Krzyzewski said. “He has the ability to get his own shot. If he is 100 percent healthy, then we have, I think, one of the best players in the country playing for us.”

If Henderson is healthy, Krzyzewski believes he can match up with anyone on the wing. If he’s healthy, he could have the breakout season everyone has been waiting for.

So the question remains: Is he healthy?

The co-captain is quick to reassure fans that he has the full range ofmotion in his wrist back. He couldn’t use his right hand

in the offseason, which forced him to further develop his left hand. He might not be completely comfortable with the way the ball comes off his shooting hand yet, but he’s working on it. And he says that at game timeT, it is nothing to worry about.

“It’s something I have to get warmed up before every game,” Henderson said. “But when I get it going, it’s perfecdy fine.”

For a change, Henderson’s wrist was a hot topic for the media at the start of this season. When asked the specifics of his injury, he lifted his hand slightly, pointing to the scar that runs down the top ofhis hand.

But when asked which ligament he’d torn, Henderson paused.

“I forget, exactly,” Henderson said, grinning. “You can look it up.”

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The University’s new policy notices to students without first considering the validity to require proof of illegal activof the accusations. In this re- ity should be praised. It is a revispect, the University lagged sion to an operating policy that far behind the examples set should have come long ago.

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The intervention of the University is especially important in this case, because the RIAA’s methods of locating individuals to charge with copyright infringement have long been suspect. According to a series of articles in the May 13 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the RIAA often generates false claims of infringement against students who have not engaged in illegal activities.

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Barack

Obama has resigned from the Senate and attempted to stay out of national government since he was elected, pointing out that the United States has only one president at a time. Until Jan. 20, George W. Bush still sits in the Oval Office. Until Jan. 20, we have the same Congress we’ve had for two years now. And until Jan. 20, it seems as if nothing will be accomplished.

This weekend, the leaders of the G2O met in Washington to discuss aishlinn o’connor what they could politicallyproblematic do about the economic crisis. They created a five-point plan, promising to strengthen transparency and accountability, enhance regulation, promote the integrity of financial markets, reinforce international cooperation and reform international financial institutions.

Given the causes of the recent financial crisis, these promises seem like common sense. And although the meeting sets a good precedent for international discussion and cooperation, it accomplished very little in terms of meaningful change.

Knowing that Obama is more willing to intervene in the markets and will havecontrol over the U.S.’s future, the world leaders are all waiting for him to take office.

This week, Congress will debate the possibility of bailing out the big three of the auto industry.

The industry may be the cause of their own problems, but our current economic situation probably couldn’t survive even one company going belly-up. Although Congress is laying some ground work on this issue, they probably won’t come to any solution or pass any other additional legislation to relieve the crisis.

As for those of us who aren’t running major corporations, who don’t have the power to legislate and who can’t exactly call up Gordon Brown

to

And without an accessible lawyer on campus to advise students once they do receive infringement notices, or any indication from the University that it will involve itself in subsequent litigation, the new policy is not a cure to the disease.

The policy does suggest, however, that the University is at least concerned about the influence that external organizations can have on the student community and willing to move toward a more reasonable role in the protection of its students.

Hopefully, the University will continue to move in the spirit of these latest changes in order to protect its students from the bullying of the RlAA—if not for students, at least for the e-Print stations.

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out of the blue, no one’s even pretending to work directly with us in the next couple months.

The economic crisis is affecting all of us. My parents have good credit, I’ve never missed a payment and yet I still have to wonder if I’ll be able to find loans for law school. I see my savings, and those of my parents, losing much of their value in the stock market. And even if I can’t directly affect these things, I would like to be a part of some national solution. Obama talks about increasing incentives and participation in national service programs. He will also call on his ground support team to put some ofhis ideas of change into action within our communities.

But that starts in January, and right now, there’s not much I can do. Bush isn’t going to start community-based programs now with less than three months left in office.

I read of a man this week who also has never missed a credit card or loan payment, but with his small business not doing well anymore, he needs a little bit of leeway on his payments. He doesn’t want to default, and in a normal economic environment he might have been able to work with his bank and restructure his payments, but not these days. He’s working overtime, but the customers just aren’t there. The next few months really matter to him, but during that time, no one will be working to create resources that would help him.

Normally lame duck sessions don’t address issues of great importance. They are filled with lastminute executive orders and pardons and political jockeying for positions within the new administration. And while this all is occurring as usual, this time our country and world are facing an issue of great importance.

The economy isn’t going to stay still until Jan. 20. Something needs to be done. Our government is still being paid and needs to keep working.

Looking forward is both good and necessary. But it cannot be done at the expense of acting now.

Aishlinn O’Connor is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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Do you hear what I hear?

Every

year, we brace ourselves for the inevitable moment when we hear the first Christmas carol during a TV commercial or in lieu of the usual lite rock at the local grocery store. When it happens, it is usually around this time of which year, cannot realistically be called the holiday season. It is as unwelcome as the outdated top-40 medeliza french ley that blasts the Althrough je ne sais quoi

pine speakers

while you’re waiting in line on a hungover Sunday morning.

I would imagine this is even more irritating if you don’t celebrate Christmas at all.

This year, this moment came for me when I wasn’t feeling much like promoting peace on earth or spreading goodwill. As I’m sure anyone I know can readily attest to, I have found an unlimited number of things to complain about lately.

The days are too short now, the nights come too soon and the walk back to Edens from almost anywhere on campus is just cold enough for me to start losing feeling in my extremities.

The once-picturesque fall foliage is now a layer of dried leaves coating the ground that is just thick enough to create a uniformly slippery surface when it rains.

I haven’t seen the floor of my room or the top of my desk in weeks. I find myself making to-do lists filled with tasks I know I eventually have to complete, like “write philosophy paper” or “study for economics midterm.” These routine things, however, seem equally as daunting as those perpetually incomplete, permanent fixtures like “lose five pounds” or “read Anna Karenina.” I’ve eagerly been counting down the

weeks left until the last day of classes this semester (2.5!), but the amount of work to be accom-

plished makes my heart rate spike in a panicky way that feels distincdy unhealthy.

It’s not only academics that can get you down at this point in the semester.

Most people in relationships that started at the beginning of the year have had just enough time to weather the first big fight. Even when you don’t break up with the person, the petty and exhaustive process of fighting with a significant other can shake your confidence and leave your high hopes somewhat deflated.

Other people who have not been so lucky in love (although “lucky” could be misleading and “love” could be an overstatement) are ready to abandon all efforts, be it for the semester or forever.

These general trends are more pervasive than just our personal lives or even life on campus.

Each new issue of every major paper reports more dismal news about the financial crisis. I just read in the Times that sales of Spam, a product conveniently introduced during the Great Depression, have increased noticeably during the past few months.

God help us.

Yet, if you’ve been lucky enough to venture off-campus and make the pilgrimage to Target or Southpoint, you’ve noticed that the holiday displays are already out in full force. Everyone knows the old rule of no holiday decorations until after Thanksgiving has gone the way of nowhite-after-Labor-day (that is, vaguely rememberedbut often blatantly ignored). But this year, in particular, it seems absurdly inappropriate.

For students like us, keeping it together in our own hectic way until finals, and for the population in general, scrimping wherever possible, holiday cheer will be one of the many things in short supply this year.

Eliza French is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

Rhee’s attitude stalls reform

As

you may have heard, District of haven’t more of them risen up to defy ColumbiaPublicSchools Chancel- the union and rally behind the generous lor Michelle Rhee is out to makeit new contract? Because not one teacher easier to fire teachers who are ineffective, in DCPS knows for sure whether Rhee It’s not currendy impossible, but it in- thinks they’re “bad” or “good.” It’s comvolves putting the offending teacher on pletely unfair (and borderline insulting) to ask teachers to sign a cumbersome “9(kiay with numerous on to a contract based T plan” loop holes. Having an C3.lHorillo CUIIOII on an evaluation system effective teacher is the guest Commentary they haven’t seen. Not everyone shares the policy single best indicator of a child’s success in community’s blind faith that Rhee will come up with a fair evaluaschool. The chancellor wants D.C. teachers to sign a new contract that rewards tion system (nor should they). effective teachers with drastically higher The chancelloralso failed miserably at selling her plan to teachers and diffusing salariesand makes iteasier to fire ineffective teachers. Sounds simple, right? the mistrust that teachers in the system Wrong. Contract negotiations have have after decades of “superintendent stalled, and the chancellor has turned to shuffle” and failed reforms. Last year, the “Plan B,” a series of unpopular and poschancellor created a package of incensibly unworkable ways around the col- tives for older teachers to retire early. The lective bargaining agreement If Rhee’s message was “go now, before I kick you extremely generous contract doesn’t out” It wasn’t targeted at bad teachers. make it, it will be a major blow for reform It was targeted at veteran teachers. As a result, they weren’t sure about the new efforts everywhere. Many blame the concontract That’s a communication failure, tract’s failure on the Washington Teachers Union and its parent organization, but it’s also a failure of leadership. the American Federation ofTeachers.

Relentless drive and unshakeable But the union can’t even hold its own confidence are among the qualities that make Rhee a powerful reformer. But the meeting without its various factions creclimate ofcombative ness and appearance ating chaos. The chancellor has unprecedented political will and power behind of disdain that come with it are damaging her. She should have walked away with the negotiation process and risking the this contract—it’s a good deal for good success of the new contract, which would teachers and it makes the drastic changes be a critical step forward for system. The chancellor is right that teachers should the district needs possible. Contract negotiations have failed (so far) in part because be accountable for student success. So the chancellor did two things wrong: She too should she be accountable for effeckept her evaluation system behind closed tive leadership at this pivotal moment doors and she propagated the belief that Catherine Cullen, Trinity ’O6, is a forshe was out to fire veterans of the system mer D. C. Public Schools teacher. The full regardless of their effectiveness.

There are smart, good teachers workversion of this letter can befound on hacking hard inside theDCPS system. So why pages. chronicleblogs. com. ,

dukevotes what’s next?

Obama’s call

John

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F. Kennedy’s quote, “Ask

not what your country can do for

you; ask what you can do for your country,” has never been more relevant than today. Obama’s administration will do more than just fix the economy, restore lost foreign policy credentials and deliver health care to millions of Americans. President-elect Barack Obama will call upon all Americans, young and old, Republican and Democrat, to make patriotic sacrifices to make our country great once again.

Obama intends to follow the path of the great Kennedy by expanding national serviceprograms, such as Kennedy’s Peace Corps, that ask Americans to give back to the country. Not stopping there, Obama will create additional programs, including Classroom Corps that will help teachers maintain healthy learning environments in impoverished school districts. Other programs slated are a new Health, Clean Energy and Veteran Corps.

The new White House will also actively call upon America’s youth to do their part to resurrect the country. This challenge includes not only joining one ofObama’s new programs, but also meeting the administration’s goal to have every middle and high school student complete 50 hours of community service yearly.

Obama will summon retiring Americans to volunteer and to work in programs such as Head Start and Youthßuild.

Obama understands, though, that America will also need sweeping changes

Cents and sensibility

all Americans

The

bad news is that the Republican in policy to recover. The first hundred Party has found its rock bottom. The days of the Obama administration will heavily focus on the economy. Bipartisan good news is that things can only get better—especially because legislation will be passed Americans are not calling to provide direct, immediate assistance for hoeach other comrade (yet).

The path to a GOP meowners bogged down “resurgence” or “victory” by the financial crisis. or simply “not-losing-soObama will not support a bailout for irresponsible very-much-in-the-polls” is straightforward. Return mortgage lenders, however. More economic reto our roots, stay true to our principles and oflief will come in a tax cut dukevotes for 95 percent of workers fer the American people series on politics what they have always and families. Obama and liked: cents'and sensibility.

Biden also plan a new American jobs tax credit to help create (Apologies, Ms. Austen, for the pun.) domestic jobs. A zero capital gains rate Conservatism did not lose in 2008. Limited government and individual freedom for investment in small businesses will did not lose in 2008. A weakened party in also jumpstart the economy.

America got a taste of how our image an unfavorable political environment with an unpopular incumbent president lost will change upon watching celebrations in in 2008—as well it should. Because since Kenya, cheering in New Delhi and jubila2000, Republicans have overseen massive tion in Paris. Gone will be the nation that growth of the federal government; balpreemptively goes into war. Gone will be the nation that neglects the middle class in looning of the federal deficit; curtailment of civil liberties; and two unpopular wars, favor of the elite. Gone will be the nation beright watches our degrade multiple ethics scandals and a partial nathat planet tionalization of the banking industry. fore our eyes. Obama’s policies will change I haven’t reviewed the party platform this country for the better. Just remember, resource for more important there is no recently, but I’m confident it doesn’t describe what has happened. That alone changing the direction of this country should be Republicans’ inspiration for and defining the ideas that will transform than theAmerican people.

America changing what will happen.

The GOP does not need to alter its message. The United States is still a center-right Will Passo is a Trinity sophomore. He is the nation suspicious of centralized power, executive secretary of theDuke Democrats.

proud of individualism and cynical in its assessment ofbureaucratic efficacy. So, instead, the GOP simply must make its deeds match

its words.You cannot champion free markets and vote for the financial bailout; you cannot enshrine governmentaccountability and not run Ted Stevens, a seven-count felon, out of the Senate. (And you cannot blame voters who judge people for what they do, not what they say. If only more were like them.)

But Republicans must change their tactics, particularly online. Barack Obama’s use of technology revolutionized politicking; next, it will revolutionize governing.

The GOP must stay abreast Learn the lessons of the Obama campaign: the power of social networks, of crowd-sourcing, of decentralizing political organization. Embrace online tools to increase government transparency, to communicate directly with constituents and to deliver messages without “mainstream media” interference. Most importandy, connect online and offline activists. The results will be tremendous.

Republicans, this should be a time of excitement, not despair. If Republican policy is right (as I think it is), and delivered and debated honestly (as I hope it will be), then success will follow. We face a trying four years. But if we’re smart, then these great challenges can become great opportunities.

At the least, I know that I look forward to it, com—err —friend.

Abby Alger is a Trinity senior. She is a member of the Duke College Republicans.

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Wednesday, November 19 MUSIC. Piano Master Class with Matthew Bengtson.

4pm. Nelson Music Room.

Free

MUSIC. GuestRecital: Matthew Bengtson, piano. His recordings of Scriabin sonatas have won critical praise, and he is currently involved in a recording project of early English instruments. Dr. Bengtson will be playing Duke’s new Steinway “B” grand piano. Bpm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

Thursday, November 20 Music. Ciompi Quartet with Mark Kuss, composer First Course Concert. Kuss, a renowned composer and former collaborator with the Ciompis and Branford Marsalis, introduces the world premiere of his new string quartet, Bent 1, 2, 3 (2008). 6 pm. Kirby Horton Hall, Duke Gardens. ss•Free to Duke students.

Thursday, November 20 MUSIC. Duke Wind Symphony. Pamela Halverson, dir. Richard Strauss. Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare Carmina Burana, and other works. Bpm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

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Friday, November 21 Music. Fred Hersch & Christopher O’Riley Heard Fresh: Music for TWo Pianos. Duke Artists Series & Piano Recital: Hersch is a “quiet, unassuming monster of a pianist” (New York Magazine) whose artistry runs beyond the confines jazz or any other genre, reaching to the very core of what animates fine music. O’Riley has earned renown not just as a performer of Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky but for his stunning transcriptions of Radiohead and Elliott Smith. These two legends of invention appear here together, playing a joint program that highlights the range of the classical piano tradition now. 8 pm.

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TALK. Lecture by Jeremy Smith, University of Colorado at Boulder. “Imitation as Cross-ConfessionaJ Appropriation in the Susanne un jour Complex: Revisiting Kenneth Jay Levy’s ‘History of a 16th-century Chanson.’” 4pm. Rm 104, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Friday, November 21 MUSIC. Djembe & Afro-Cuban Ensembles. Bradley Simmons, dir. with guest artist Monti Ellison. 8 pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Saturday, November 22 DANCE. November Dances 2008. Duke Dance faculty, stu dents and guests provide a vibrant and varied program of Modern, Ballet and African dance. Bpm. Reynolds Theater. $l5 Adults; $5 for Students; Freefor youth 16 and under with purchase of each Adult ticket.

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