Nov. 4, 2005

Carolina in the News

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

National Coverage

Trading vampires for Jesus
Associated Press
After stupendous sales for her tales of vampires, witches and lust, novelist Anne Rice has turned to Jesus ---- personally and literarily. ... Bart Ehrman, religion chair at the University of North Carolina, says "nobody takes this seriously as history" but it shows how some ancient Christians speculated about Jesus' childhood.

Regional Coverage

Poet McFee Returns to Cornell
The Cornell Daily Sun
In 1986, the “North Carolina Poetry Mafia” ran Goldwin Smith. ... “Michael McFee is possibly the best teacher of poetry workshops I know of,” Morgan said. “He shows a special devotion to poetry and is somewhat of a legend at UNC.”

State & Local Coverage

Best bets
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
What do the Eiffel Tower and a horse have in common? Lots, if it's the horse at the center of the new touring puppet show coming to UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. "Tall Horse," a joint multimedia project by Mali's Sologon troupe and the Handspring Puppet Company, from Capetown, South Africa, tells a marvelous tale of a giraffe -- the "tall horse" -- born in Sudan and shipped to France, where he was to be a gift for the king.

Film festival focuses on Latin America
The Charlotte Observer
The title is a mouthful -- William Wilson Brown Jr. Latin American Film and Video Festival -- but the offerings are unique: movies in Spanish (with two exceptions) all over the Charlotte area from Monday to Nov. 17. ... The festival is part of a statewide program sponsored by UNC Charlotte and the Outreach Office of the Consortium in Latin American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University.

Boyfriend charged after woman is shot, baby dies
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A Sanford man is charged with killing a daughter he never met. ... A baby born that prematurely is already at risk. There is about a 7 percent mortality rate, even if the mother and baby are healthy, said Desmond Runyan, professor and chairman of social medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Issues & Trends

Griffith, Ali To Receive Presidential Medal Of Freedom
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
President Bush on Thursday announced the recipients _ including North Carolina native Andy Griffith _ of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.

Hopefuls address town economy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
By most accounts, Chapel Hill's economy is doing fine. Six of Orange County's 10 largest employers are public entities. This offers a degree of stability to the economy, and UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Hospitals pay well. The median family income is about $87,000.

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