High School Ground Broken

Wearing hard hats and brandishing shovels, officials broke ground Tuesday at the construction site of Orange County Schools' new high school in Hillsborough.As ...

Town Agrees to Lift Cap, Work Out Plan Details

Chapel Hill officials informed University leaders at a meeting Wednesday that they are willing to help UNC meet its needs for the Master Plan by lifting ...

`Josie and the Pussycats' Falls Prey to Its Own Satire

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Multifaceted Ganes Looks to Capture 7th ACC Title

The media guide -- a surefire way to tell how good an athlete really is. Each page is an accomplishment, a record, a bragging right. It highlights victories ...

Police Roundup 04/19/01

UniversityTuesday, April 17University police responded to a report of property damage to a vehicle at 9 a.m.The victim said he picked up the vehicle from ...

Spade's Humor Helps `Joe Dirt' Grow on Viewer, Like a Mullet

Adventures of Joe Dirt

Due Process

The speed of case disposition in Orange County -- the time it takes to go to trial after arrest -- not only affects the lives of suspects and victims, ...

Reserve Your Spot Now To Participate in the Unity Games This Week

TO THE EDITOR:As the outgoing chairman of the Human Relations Committee of student government, I would like to invite everyone to take part in a very ...

`Bridget Jones' Overcomes `Chick Flick' Cliches

Bridget Jones' Diary

Anti-Gun Control Column Was NRA Propaganda, Ignores Parents' Concerns\

TO THE EDITOR:The other day, I was in Breadmen's for breakfast and for reading I picked up an old tattered The Daily Tar Heel. There was a column by Russ ...

Study Cites Racism at Landfill

A UNC class plans to demand that Orange County Waste Management officials close a landfill they associate with environmental racism. Dr. Valerie Ann Kaalund's ...

Starving Artists

Majoring in art requires creativity. Apparently, trying to get a job with a degree in art can require even more. "There are no rules in the art ...

Bill May Preclude Profiling

In 1994, black motorist Stacey Washington was stopped by an N.C. Highway Patrol officer on Interstate 85 for undisclosed reasons, searched without his ...

Dilbert 04/18/01

N.C. Lottery Foes Make for Unlikely Team

Lottery opponents make for strange bedfellows, but those beds are fertile grounds for the movement.Although lottery supporters often group the opposition ...

Plans Help Families Avoid Student Debt

The increasing use of college loans, coinciding with the decline of grants in financial aid, has led several states, including North Carolina, to set ...

Rural Farmers Left Behind In High-Tech Revolution

For centuries, farming and small businesses shaped North Carolina's economy. As other states boomed, North Carolina's more agrarian focus left it economically ...

Eggers' Eccentric Style Earns Praise

Hamlet, the Disney cartoon version of Aladdin, Christian Slater's character in "Pump Up the Volume," Woody Allen ...These are but a few of the ...

`Staggering Genius' Gives `Heartbreaking' Interview

In an e-mail conversation with David Eggers, author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," Eggers discusses the importance of gardens, ...