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04.15.10
‘Unwritten rules’

The breathy back-and-forth vocals and simmering erotic tension that suffuse the debut album “xx” by the British indie band The xx might lead you to think that singers Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim are more than just friends.

03.04.10
Students prepare for Fashion Week 2010

New York has it. Paris has it. Milan has it. Charleston has it: Fashion Week.
Now in its fourth year, Charleston Fashion week is slated for March 16 through 20, when tents filled with models flaunting the latest couture will fill Marion Square.

02.25.10
Snookie, meet Shannon

Shannon “Snooks” Lucas is not your everyday C of C princess. Born and raised a Northerner in Strong Island, N.Y. (Oceanside to be exact), she likes to think she brings a new flavor to a very different Southern lifestyle. 

02.03.10
Recession questions economics of a college degree

Being “upside-down” means owing more on your house or car than it’s worth. Right now, Patricia Summers is upside-down on her college degree.

01.14.10
A man, a van and a plan

Even by starving-grad-student standards, Duke student Ken Ilgunas’ campus housing is humble. It is, however, mobile.
Ilgunas, 26, is shacking up in a 1994 Ford Econoline as a means of getting through his liberal studies graduate program without debt. Parked in a lot on the edge of campus, he cooks with camping equipment and subsists largely on peanut butter.

01.14.10
A man, a van and a plan

Even by starving-grad-student standards, Duke student Ken Ilgunas’ campus housing is humble. It is, however, mobile.
Ilgunas, 26, is shacking up in a 1994 Ford Econoline as a means of getting through his liberal studies graduate program without debt. Parked in a lot on the edge of campus, he cooks with camping equipment and subsists largely on peanut butter.