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The Independent: Durham Needs a DA with Passion, Like Nifong & Cline

By K.C. Johnson

Tuesday is primary day in North Carolina. The Independent, the Triangle?s alternative weekly, recently made its endorsement for the Democratic primary for DA.The Independenthosts the columns of Hal Crowther, hailed by author William D. Cohan as ?the conscience of progressive thinkers in North Carolina.? That would be the same Crowther who penned a vicious summer 2006 column featuring Peter Wood speaking disparagingly of the accused lacrosse players he had taught in his class. When the mother of one of the players, Reade Seligmann, called up Wood to ask him on what basis he had attacked her son, Wood hung up on her.(In an intriguing item, Cohan revealed in the WYNC interview that he knew Wood when he was at Duke, explaining the book?s heroic treatment of the discreditedlacrossecritic...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 05, 2014 (boomark / email).