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Florida State Can't Rest on Upset of Top-Ranked Duke

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- No more flub-ups. That's how Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton described the Seminoles' consecutive road defeats to Auburn and Virginia Tech. He quickly credited both opponents but, in reality, FSU should have emerged with a pair of victories, if not at least played with more emotion and resolve....

Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud

(Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess...

US News' Top 10 Universities of 2011, Remixed By Cost

(Aug. 17) -- Although administrators won't literally charge an arm and a leg (thankfully), tuition at one of the nation's top universities is going to cost you. Among the top 10 schools listed in the highly anticipated U.S. News and World Report annual university rankings, released today, not a single institution costs...

Tennessee Town Hopes Tourists Find Bean Museum a Gas

(June 30) -- Paris has the Louvre, New York has the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now Chestnut Hill, Tenn., has something that's even more of a gas than those world-class institutions: a museum dedicated to beans. Don't pooh-pooh the idea: Bush Brothers & Co., the nation's top-selling baked bean brand, has just opened a...

Huggins: Bryant May Play Saturday

Although West Virginia point guard Darryl "Truck" Bryant said he would play in the Final Four with a broken foot, Coach Bob Huggins said Monday he won't know about Bryant's availability until later in the week. The Mountaineers, who meet Duke in Saturday's national semifinals in Indianapolis, are not practicing Monday....

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A duke (male) or duchess (female) can be either a monarch ruling over a duchy or a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch.

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