Duke to forfeit games to Georgetown and Mount St. Mary's

[billhoward]

[quote ugarte][quote Chris 02]Looks like all the charges are being dropped in the next day or so.[/quote]
But the team just lost to Cornell again! Who knows what those kids are going to do this time.[/quote]

They could always try growing up. The legal problems may be behind them. But they were never charged by the DA with boorish behavior, not being gentlemen, and acting as out-of-control privileged jocks with a plantation mentality. On those charges they may be guilty, guilty, guilty. Coach K never would have allowed it, and with the spotlight on Duke hoops, even if he wanted to, which he didn't, it wouldn't have been possible. The three who got charged paid too high a price. The others who lost a season? Hard to say. Sometimes, as the poster says at Despair, The Purpose of Your Life is to Serve as a Warning to Others.

[ugarte]

ESPN reports that it's all over but the disbarrment. You know it is a poorly conceived prosecution when the only charges pending are against the DA.

EDIT: The title of this thread is so understated in light of what follows.

[billhoward]

[quote ugarte]ESPN reports that it's all over but the disbarrment. You know it is a poorly conceived prosecution when the only charges pending are against the DA.

EDIT: The title of this thread is so understated in light of what follows.[/quote]

Right: Al should've given more thought to the immortality of his thread. Maybe "Nappy-headed dancers accuse Duke laxers; DA salivates at opportunity"? Wait, wrong medium. And perhaps Safire on Language can enlighten us as to the etymology of the term.

[cth95]

Better not hold our breath waiting for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to apologize to the Duke players for jumping all over them.

[Ken70]

[quote cth95]Better not hold our breath waiting for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to apologize to the Duke players for jumping all over them.[/quote]

...or the Duke faculty group of 78 (or whatever it was) or the Duke administration or any person or group where reality is determined by ideology rather than facts.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Ken70]any person or group where reality is determined by ideology rather than facts.[/quote]

...and who didn't get lucky by having the facts happen to fall in line with his prejudices.

[RichH]

[quote Ken70]any person or group where reality is determined by ideology rather than facts.[/quote]

Isn't this the definition of the word "truthiness?"



[quote Stephen Colbert]It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty...What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?


Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true.' It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality.[/quote]

[schoaff]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Ken70]any person or group where reality is determined by ideology rather than facts.[/quote]

...and who didn't get lucky by having the facts happen to fall in line with his prejudices.[/quote]

Well, it is pretty rare to see so many people disappointed that a woman wasn't raped.

[nr53]

http://laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=7062

The author definitely has a flair for the dramatic but the 5th paragraph amuses me the most:

Most of the Ivy League despise the thought that Duke is trying to be something it's not: one of them. In the Ivies' minds, Duke is a poser, striving to emulate an image Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania spent centuries developing.

I think its one of the few lists of Ivy League schools that includes Cornell while also leaving out Princeton in exchange for Stanford.

[jtwcornell91]

That's hilarious.

[ugarte]

It was a postcard-perfect Monday afternoon in North Carolina on March 13, 2006. A brilliant sun was accompanied by temperatures in the mid seventies. The campus of Duke University was peaceful and relatively empty with the arrival of spring break. Dukies, with the exception of athletic teams in season such as men's lacrosse, welcomed the reprieve. The city of Durham, meanwhile, embraced a new work week. Durhamites savored the crisp, clean air as they scurried around town and tackled their to-do lists. Little did they know the perfect storm had started to churn on the horizon.

The Perfect Storm?

Yes, that's exactly what would occur. Not a drop of rain would fall in Durham over the next twelve hours, but an extraordinary combination of events would devastate a prestigious university and a proud city, changing many lives forever. Not rain, not snow, not wind would cause this massive destruction.

The elements that produced this perfect storm were in a powder keg, just waiting to be ignited. That powder keg, located in the living room at 610 North Buchanan Boulevard, was packed with the politics of privilege, race, sex, and money. As the alcohol flowed, and music filled the air, the fuse was lit.

There was an explosion around midnight.

No, that's hilarious. If you buy one instabook this year, make it "It's Not About the Truth."

[billhoward]

I'll bite. You made this up, or it's the real intro to Duke Lacrosse: Now the Truth Can Be Told? If the latter, can real books be entered into the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest?