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Most likely something on his mind. Musta' been serious trouble getting the accuser to learn who the Yankees were, though, so you know they had a lot of conversations about that.

I'm still working over the names they gave these guys in their little game ~ Adam, Brett and matt ~ Jewish names maybe ~ Jews from New York City? Is that the point, or was it A, B, C and she couldn't remember "C".

I think one of my earliest posts (shortly after Howlin's first) referred to "Return to Macon County" as the source of Nifong's script.

Since I was there as an undergrad Durham is both more and less of a dump. Back then it was a solid working class town and the tobacco industry provided good jobs. Those jobs went away and as the Durham natives who counted on those jobs sunk further and further into relative poverty there was an influx of highly paid professionals to take the high-tech jobs that have been created in the last 25 years. The relative decrepitude of "old" Durham is only emphasized by the relative wealth of "new" Durham.

Some (not all - SOME) of the northerners, and some from other parts of the country as well, including some of the students with whom I was associated all those years ago lacked a certain quality, highly valued in the south, known as tact. They were quite vocal about Durham's obvious deficiencies and rubbed everyone the wrong way including me. The New York wise guy just doesn't play well in Durham. I understand that nothing is really meant by it, and that said Yankee is expecting ridicule in return, but in Durham it still rankles to be ridiculed by a carpetbagger.

Doesn't mean the Duke lax 3 should go to prison for 30 years, nor does it mean RS, CF and DE possess those unlikable qualities. But I'll bet every Durhamite has had, at one time or another, an unfortunate encounter with an out-of-towner. All it takes is one incident to set some people's opinions forever.

I think the Jewish names thing is stretching it. Is "Bret" a Jewish name? And there are plenty of non-Jews named Matt and Adam. I don't think any of the actual guys on the team named Bret, Matt and Adam are Jewish.

On the other hand, Crystal did manage to pick Reade Seligmann, who is Jewish, as one of her alleged attackers. But then she also picked an obviously Irish Catholic guy - Collin Finnerty, and Dave Evans who seems to be your standard Anglo-Saxon type.