The thing about Duke was, every time they sent me a letter, they wouldn’t spell my name right. They would have ‘T.J. Harrison’ or something like that. And I’m like, ‘OK. How can I go here? You can’t even spell my name right.’ It’s only two letters and HAIR and STON. I’m trying to figure out how that’s so hard.
— P.J. Hairston (via the News & Record)
(Source: uncaroline)
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With the close of the football season of 1913 all eyes are now turned to basketball. It is a sport that is practically new with the University, having been in vogue here for only a few years, but one that is gaining ground.
— The Tar Heel in 1913 (via the North Carolina Collection)
(Source: youtube.com)
That there is this sense that there’s lots of little things to hate about Duke, but overall, people feel like they’re getting away with something that’s un-American.
— Andy Bagwell, co-author of a new book, Duke Sucks, on why people hate Duke. (via newsobserver.com)
That’s one of the great things about the social web. The good stuff rises to the top — there’s a cool precision about that — and it’s easy to help people, too.
— Alexis Ohanian (The Atlantic)
Facebook by numbers (via The Economist)
It’s not that the Internet is going anywhere. You are not going to get rid of it with a review. It’s just that you, if you are going to spend that much time on it, you want it to be better and better.
— Zadie Smith
(Source: harpers.org)
Yeah! How you like me now, F.E.C.? I’m rolling seven digits deep! I got 99 problems but a non-connected independent-expenditure only committee ain’t one!
— Stephen Colbert, in a Federal Elections Commission filing for his super PAC. (via officialssay)
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