By Harold The Daily Triangle’s editorial board decided to spend the summer in Washington D.C. This blog demands that we be in the most powerful city in the world. Also, there was a great summer internship. In any case, I’ve used the opportunity to take as many tours, visit as many museums and listen to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Daily Harold’
June 1, 2010
Containment Area for Relocated Yankees
By Harold I’ve spent the past week covering the NCAA Division II baseball championship tournament, which showed off the best and worst parts of being a sportswriter. The good — there was a storybook ending. Southern Indiana’s No. 1 and No. 3 pitchers had been suspended for four games for hitting batters after being warned [...]
May 21, 2010
Summer concert series
By Harold One of the best things about living in the Triangle is all the free outdoor concerts over the summer. On top of a parking garage, behind condos, in front of hotels,another parking lot, and this being Durham, outside a renovated tobacco factory — really anywhere with 50 yards of flat space. The biggest [...]
May 12, 2010
Enumeration
By Harold Sorry for the long absence from the blog, but I’ve been doing enumeration for the NRFU (Non-Response Follow-Up) Operation. Oh sorry, perhaps you’re not familiar with the government’s insane use of unnecessarily long acronyms on the one hand, and absurd-sounding unabbreviated words on the other hand. So I’m going door-to-door (enumeration) and hounding people [...]
April 29, 2010
In Praise of Noble Trees
By Harold I can honestly say that I have never thought about the thousands of trees that dot UNC’s campus (or any other trees, for that matter). But it was a beautiful day and I wanted to learn more about UNC’s campus, so I decided to take a walking tour called “In Praise of UNC’s [...]
April 19, 2010
Durham, Manhattan-style
By Harold A common New York-style weekend would include a park with live classical music and hamburgers from a celebrated semi-structure, Sunday brunch and a walk through the art gallery district. In Manhattan, that meant the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, your choice of hundreds of restaurants [...]
April 14, 2010
Your English professor may have been misguided
By Harold If you’ve ever heard a critic or professor draw a conclusion that seemed like a real stretch, you would have liked what Jonathan Safran Foer had to say at Duke on Monday night. He recounted the story of a book critic at the 92nd Street Y who said that Foer was a genius for [...]
April 13, 2010
One way UNC is better than Duke
By Harold I think we can all agree that indoor soccer isn’t the most popular sport out there. It’s not ingrained in the culture, no one played it growing up, there’s no school teams, there’s no professionals to look up to. Still, the UNC intramural program offers men’s, women’s and co-rec indoor soccer. And within [...]
April 12, 2010
“Funniest Writer in America” turns serious
By Harold According to the program, P.J. O’Rourke has been labeled “the funniest writer in America” by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. His talk was titled “The Government vs. The Citizenry: Which is Worse?” which is definitely a set-up for some funny jokes. So I was excited to hear him speak at the [...]
April 9, 2010
Yellow Season
By Harold Ever wonder what it would be like to drive a yellow car? Well come on down to North Carolina this week, where the pollen count is seven times higher than it should be, and the highest since records started being kept in the late 90′s. I always assumed pollen were dust-like particles that [...]
April 2, 2010
It’s okay to root for Duke on Saturday
By Harold I have to live with the fact that, through no fault of anyone, my school will always be hated. Wherever I go, there will always be more people rooting against it. Even in Durham bars, since there are far more UNC and NC State graduates who stay in-state than Duke grads. But is [...]
March 29, 2010
The default option
By Harold Denmark and the Netherlands are so similar that most people in America assume they’re the same country. So why is the organ donation rate in the Netherlands 28 percent, while in Denmark it’s 98 percent? In the Netherlands, like in the U.S., organ donation is “opt-in” — you have to check a box [...]
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