1991 Duke Yearlook / Cable 13 Videotapes, 1976-2009 / Duke Digital Repository

(upbeat music)

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(classical music)

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(cheering)

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(upbeat music)

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(classical music)

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(cheering)

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Man

Does it seem like they're a rowdy bunch

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or pretty calm?

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So far, everybody seems to be pretty calm.

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(rock music)

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(classical music)

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(cheering)

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(cheering)

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(classical music)

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(cheering)

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(rock music)

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(cheering)

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Both Men

Rock and roll!

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Man

What do you think of the Duke students?

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I think they're great, they sure know how to party.

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(classical music)

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("Favourite Shirt" by Haircut 100)

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We have fun, you know.

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♪ Time can't afford no time ♪

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♪ Can't afford the rhyme ♪

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♪ Never mind, someday maybe ♪

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♪ Boy meets girl ♪

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♪ And love ♪

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-

You know, which one of these is kegs anyway?

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♪ Boy meets girl ♪

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Messy?

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No, no, no, no.

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This is Laura.

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This is Marie.

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And Marie.

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And I'm John, by the way.

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♪ Bang, feel a little love ♪

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♪ Carino dime ♪

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♪ Never mind, someday Terry ♪

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♪ Feel the pain ♪

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You fresh when you come to school here,

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it's like the best reason to ever come to Duke, I mean,

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it is sunny afternoon.

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Look at this back panorama of just human enjoyment.

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And were just, like, celebration human life.

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-

Oh, Lisa, put away the camera.

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♪ Boy meets girl ♪

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(screams)

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Man

What do you expect to find

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when you come back to Duke?

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(mumbling)

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Free beer.

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Free beer.

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Free beer.

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Free beer.

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I'm expecting lots of free things.

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People just to give me stuff.

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Class of '91.

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(upbeat music)

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-

He's just walking and pooping.

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♪ Boy meets girl ♪

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We're gonna sabotage the other team

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when it comes down to the.

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♪ Feel the rhyme, take the time ♪

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♪ Go fighting to the top ♪

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♪ Go number one ♪

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♪ Stick a honey bun ♪

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♪ Your mind begins to flop ♪

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Go away, dammit.

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♪ Hey, camisas ♪

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Cute guys and it gets fun.

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Good to see you all, good to see you.

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Be excellent to each other.

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Party on.

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Party on, dude.

("Do It Again" by The Kinks)

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♪ Standing in the middle of nowhere ♪

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♪ Wondering how to begin ♪

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♪ Lost between tomorrow and yesterday ♪

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♪ Between now and then ♪

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♪ And now we're back where we started ♪

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♪ Here we go round again ♪

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♪ Day after day I get up and I say ♪

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♪ I better do it again. ♪

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♪ Where are all the people going ♪

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♪ Round and round till we reach the end ♪

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♪ One day leading to another ♪

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♪ Get up, go out, do it again ♪

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♪ Then it's back where you started ♪

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♪ Here we go round again ♪

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♪ Back where you started ♪

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♪ Come on do it again, do it again ♪

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♪ And you think today is gonna be better ♪

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♪ Change the world and do it again ♪

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♪ Give it all up and start all over ♪

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♪ You say you will but you don't know when ♪

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♪ Then it's back where you started ♪

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♪ Here we go round again ♪

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♪ Day after day I get up and I say ♪

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♪ Come on do it again, do it again, do it again, do it again ♪

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♪ The days go by and you wish you were a different guy ♪

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♪ Different friends and a new set of clothes ♪

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♪ You make alterations and affect a new pose ♪

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♪ A new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose ♪

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♪ But it's superficial and it's only skin deep ♪

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♪ Because the voices in your head ♪

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♪ Keep shouting in your sleep ♪

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♪ Get back, get back ♪

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♪ Get back, get back ♪

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♪ Back where you started, here we go round again ♪

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♪ Back where you started, come on do it again, do it again ♪

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♪ Back where you started, here we go round again, ♪

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♪ Day after day I get up and I say, do it again ♪

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♪ Do it again ♪

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♪ Day after day I get up and I say, come on do it again ♪

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♪ Do it again, do it again ♪

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("Gonna Make You Sweat" by C+C Music Factory)

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♪ Everybody dance now ♪

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♪ Everybody dance now ♪

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♪ Give me the music ♪

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♪ Give me the music ♪

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♪ Everybody dance now ♪

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Literacy council and the band

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and the lip sync is brought to you by Sigma Chi

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and Wendy's old fashioned hamburgers.

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I'm gonna turn it over now to J-Rock Williams

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(cheering)

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("Superman" by R.E.M.)

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♪ I am, I am, I am Superman and I know what's happening ♪

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♪ I am, I am, I am Superman and I can do anything ♪

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♪ You don't really love that guy ♪

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♪ You make it with now, do you ♪

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♪ I know you don't love that guy ♪

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♪ Cause I can see ♪

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("We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister)

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♪ We're not gonna take it anymore ♪

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("Superman" by R.E.M.)

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♪ I am, I am, I am Superman and I can do anything ♪

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♪ If you go a million miles away I'll track you down, girl ♪

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♪ Trust me when I say I know the pathway ♪

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-

And you are?

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Your name.

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You are?

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(laughing)

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(cheering)

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[Inaudible 00:12:53]

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Only 100, only 100.

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[Inaudible 00:12:56]

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Only 100, only 100 pounds while you carry 50, 50 records.

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One, two, three, flex everyone, yeah.

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(cheering)

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Unbelievable.

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And Jesus says, look up into the stars

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and see his face shine down upon you.

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Fall down on your knees.

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I didn't say Jesus says.

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(laughing)

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Welcome once again to Teen Beat,

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this week we have a very special guest,

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Mr. John Knight of New Kids on the Block

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(cheering)

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I will.

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-

How impertinent.

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(somber music)

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(calming music)

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I don't want you walking around going,

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we are greeting.

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(laughs)

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We have brain.

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We have had sex.

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We have won a national championship and had sex.

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-

Will you be my valentine?

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Were you're the one who sent me a valentine saying,

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will you be my valentine?

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Yes, I sent that.

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Then I will be, unless I have to kiss you.

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-

I think, right now,

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we're on the heels of a human rights revolution,

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a human rights revolution that has

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always had its roots in this country.

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-

I think that the electorate, the American voters,

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would be perfectly willing to consider

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a woman for president today.

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If the woman, rather, was qualified.

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I don't think that there are

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insurmountable barriers to agree

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women's candidacy for president.

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I know that this is really a celebration for all of us.

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It's a celebration of our mutual love for the university.

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But specifically, [Inaudible 00:15:34] for Duke.

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The time has come before us

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and will be what comes of our efforts after we leave.

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So, I salute you, all of you here, all of who preceded you

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and all the ones following.

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♪ I am, I am, I am Superman and I know what's happening ♪

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♪ I am, I am, I am Superman and I can do anything ♪

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♪ If you go a million miles away I'll track you down, girl ♪

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♪ Trust me when I say I know the pathway to your heart ♪

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Spring fest!

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You like them?

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Man

It's pretty good.

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Yes, I love it.

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Class of '91, we make it out of here in two weeks.

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Two more weeks.

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Man

Two weeks!

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-

What do you think about the day, is it a great day or?

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The best.

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The best day.

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Duke is the best, most beautiful.

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-

What do you think about spring fest?

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I think this is fantastic,

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I think they should do it, like, every day, spring fest.

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You, they, well-

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Everyday.

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I don't think it could be spring fest if it was every day.

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That's true, that's a good point.

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So then, I guess we can only do it once every spring.

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Right.

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Is that how it works?

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Well, of course, you could have winter fest.

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And October Fest.

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Man

Groundhog's day fest

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Man

We have October fest.

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Tell me about October fest.

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October fest is great, it's just like spring fest,

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except it's in October.

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(cheering)

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("Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads)

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♪ Watch out, you might get what you're after ♪

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♪ Cool babies, strange but not a stranger ♪

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♪ I'm an ordinary guy ♪

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♪ Burning down the house ♪

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♪ Hold tight, wait till the party's over ♪

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♪ Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather ♪

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♪ There has, got to be a way ♪

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♪ Burning down the house ♪

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♪ Here's your ticket, pack your bags ♪

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♪ Time for jumping overboard ♪

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♪ Transportation isn't here ♪

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♪ Close enough but not too far ♪

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♪ Maybe you know where you are ♪

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♪ Fighting fire with fire ♪

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♪ All wet, hey you might need a raincoat ♪

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♪ Shakedown, dreams walking in broad daylight ♪

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♪ Three hundred, sixty five degrees ♪

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♪ Burning down the house ♪

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Duke basketball is so great because,

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because...

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I'm at Duke for basketball.

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Because.

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Duke basketball is a class act

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and I am talking a classic.

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Look at this, look at these guys.

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Come here, wait, let me show you these guys.

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Have you see a better quality group of guys.

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Guys who graduate.

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Because we get to throw things and insult people

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and just generally, go totally nuts.

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Duke has the best basketball team ever.

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My only reason for coming here.

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Where else would people get stuff thrown at you,

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certainly not at Carolina,

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they don't even know how to throw stuff at Carolina.

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Well, I've been camping out for weeks and days.

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(laughs) Stop.

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♪ Sweep me off my feet ♪

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♪ Burning down the house ♪

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(chanting)

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("We Are the Champions" by Queen)

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♪ Time after time ♪

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♪ I've done my sentence ♪

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♪ But committed no crime ♪

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♪ And bad mistakes ♪

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♪ I've made a few ♪

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Devil's, yeah!

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♪ I've had my share of sand kicked in my face ♪

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♪ But I've come through ♪

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♪ And we mean to go on and on and on and on ♪

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♪ We are the champions, my friends ♪

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♪ And we'll keep on fighting till the end ♪

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♪ We are the champions ♪

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♪ We are the champions ♪

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♪ No time for losers ♪

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♪ Cause we are the champions of the world ♪

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♪ I've taken my bows ♪

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♪ And my curtain calls ♪

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♪ You brought me fame and fortune ♪

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♪ And everything that goes with it ♪

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♪ I thank you all ♪

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♪ But it's been no bed of roses ♪

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♪ No pleasure cruise ♪

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♪ I consider it a challenge before ♪

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♪ The human race ♪

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♪ And I ain't gonna lose ♪

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♪ And we mean to go on and on and on and on ♪

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♪ We are the champions, my friends ♪

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♪ And we'll keep on fighting till the end ♪

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♪ We are the champions ♪

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Announcer

Duke has won its first national championship.

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♪ No time for losers cause we are the champions of the world ♪

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♪ We are the champions, my friends ♪

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♪ And we'll keep on fighting till the end ♪

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♪ We are the champions ♪

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I can smile a lot now.

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Now, we came here to win two games

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and I think we were much more mature

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than the previous teams that have come

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and these kids have had a great month of March

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and it feels really good to finally win a game in April.

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♪ We are the champions ♪

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♪ We are the champions ♪

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♪ No time for losers cause we are the champions of the world ♪

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("Splatch" by Miles Davis)

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(shouting)

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("Under Pressure" by Queen)

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♪ Pressure pushing down on me ♪

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♪ Pressing down on you no man ask for ♪

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♪ Under pressure, that burns a building down ♪

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♪ Splits a family in two ♪

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(whispering)

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[Inaudible 00:26:00]

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The idea behind it was, it had some kind of relaxation,

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some kind of stress reduction for students, that was,

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kind of, a positive and healthy outlet for the tensions

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that they're having after classes

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but before they go into exams.

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And to, kind of, show them there's other ways

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of dealing with the stress besides alcohol.

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(upbeat music)

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Man

What you do today?

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I drove around all day looking for a place to eat.

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And then I bought a trashy romance novel.

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To read on the beach tomorrow.

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There's really nothing to say except-

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Except, please don't send this to our parents.

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This is it, this is Myrtle, Myrtle, '91.

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And we're really happy to be graduating, aren't we?

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We're really happy to be graduating.

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We love being roommates and we love Duke.

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We made it through for four years, yet we feel,

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in some ways, we've lived a life of anonymities

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and so now we wanna leave our mark on Duke.

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-

So this can make us famous, huh?

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-

And so this will make us famous and remembered.

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Yeah, I'm pretty much, I'm looking forward to going into

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the Myrtle library later on.

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Stuff is much better once you've graduated, like,

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you like people again, you know,

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and you wanna talk to them and it's fun.

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So I just wanna dedicate this yearlook piece to

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my two friends, Doug and Alec, there we go.

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Beautiful, it's a beautiful day here

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at North Myrtle Beach.

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Home of Vanna White.

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Myrtle Beach natives have been so kind to us too,

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they just, you know, we invade their town once a year

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and they're just so nice.

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I had dinner with a nice family last night.

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We're here at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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Myrtle is just the best time around.

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School's over, nothing to worry about,

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just sit in the sun and have fun all day.

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You got the buses, you got the bus stop,

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got the little circle here going,

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got the walkway.

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Walkway.

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Man

Got the walkway.

(cheering)

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-

And I'd like to say that class of '91 is so Rico Suave.

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It's been a long, long journey

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and a lot of good times, bad times and, you know,

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a lot of friends, met a lot of friends along the way,

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but I'd say that this party is easily the culmination,

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the best thing that's happened in four years.

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(cheering)

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I learned, I drank, I watched basketball,

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it was wonderful.

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Very differing careers

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but we're very appreciative of the fact

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that we've had the time to spend together.

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But we're just laid back

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and wanna go through life having a good time.

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And, you know, all those other confound things.

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Man

You're losing you're place in line.

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-

It's been a great four years,

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but I'm looking forward to the world.

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Memories.

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Climbing the James B. Duke statue.

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Winning the championship.

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Burning benches.

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First question my dad asks is, how many benches survived?

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Not how you doing, how many benches survived.

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You were there man, four years, four, final fours,

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and we were at the last one, we won, that was the cake.

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-

It was a really bad year to be a senior.

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Dude, that made my senior year.

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-

It's terrible.

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Just a terrible year, just a terrible year.

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Couldn't be happier, four years, final four.

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We're in the end, I'm ready to move on.

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Try to make a lot of new friends over the years, though.

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It's a good thing.

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Make sure you've got like 15 family members in,

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all wanting to do different things at the same time, so.

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-

So you take them to the gardens and let them loose.

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(laughing)

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Go back and get them at the end of the day.

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I tell you, see the garden,

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see the chapel before you take your parents there.

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Cause I just finally find out what's going on at this place.

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(graduation song)

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(screaming)

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It is now my great pleasure to ask you to join me

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in welcoming our commencement speaker, the recipient of the

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Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary,

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Dr. George F. Will.

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(clapping)

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The main point of today's ceremony is well done

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class of '91.

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So eager have I been to come here to say that,

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I have put the nation in jeopardy.

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(laughing)

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It was a Sunday morning and back in Washington,

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I have left unsupervised, Sam Donaldson.

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(laughing)

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That is why I predict special success

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for the class of 1991 and continued greatness for Duke.

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By the authority invested in me, I confer upon you,

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and each of you, the ancient and honorable degree

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of bachelor of arts.

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A recognition of this major step through the world

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of creative and enlightened citizenship.

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My congratulations to you.

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(cheering)

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(graduation song)

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("Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads)

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♪ Watch out, you might get what you're after ♪

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♪ Cool babies, strange but not a stranger ♪

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♪ I'm an ordinary guy ♪

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♪ Burning down the house ♪

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♪ Hold tight, wait till the party's over ♪

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♪ Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather ♪

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♪ There has got to be a way ♪

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♪ Burning down the house ♪

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♪ Here's your ticket, pack your bags ♪

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♪ Time for jumping overboard ♪

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♪ Transportation isn't here ♪

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♪ Close enough but not too far, ♪

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♪ Maybe you know where you are ♪

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♪ Fighting fire with fire ♪

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♪ And the home of the ♪

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(chanting)

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Man

On August 2nd, 1990,

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100,000 Iraqi troops stormed across the border

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and brutally captured its tiny neighbor of Kuwait

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in a matter of hours.

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president Bush responded by sending 125,000 troops

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to protect Saudi Arabia in Operation Desert Shield.

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Man

Saddam is making the mistake of his life.

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Man

The United Nations issued a January 15th deadline

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for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.

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More than a million armed personnel

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stare each other down waiting.

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(explosion)

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-

The liberation of Kuwait has begun.

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-

Five months ago,

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Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against Kuwait.

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Tonight, the battle has been joined.

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Man

For five weeks, the coalition battered Baghdad

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and Kuwait with air attacks.

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Iraq was so overwhelmed with the strength of the allies

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that its only response was through

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Soviet made, Scud missiles.

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American made, Patriot missiles intercepted

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most of the incoming Scuds.

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Hussein attempted to dislodge other Arab States

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for the coalition by attacking Israel,

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the Jewish nation refused to retaliate

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against fatal bombings of Tel Aviv

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and the coalition remained intact.

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In a desperate act of environmental blackmail,

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Hussein ordered the release of millions

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of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf

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and the torching of hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells.

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Back home, there was no shortage of opinions

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on either side of the Gulf War issue.

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You want me to go now?

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Why you want me to walk away?

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(shouting)

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Man

On February 23rd, the multinational force,

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led by General Norman Schwarzkopf

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launched the much anticipated ground offensive

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against the Iraqis.

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With Iraqi soldiers surrendering by the thousands,

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the war lasted little more than 100 hours.

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Saddam Hussein accepted all UN resolutions,

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calling for his withdrawal from Kuwait

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and payment of reparations and war damages.

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As school ended, the war's effects lingered,

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millions of Kurdish refugees

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who sought safety in the mountains waited,

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both hungry and cold, for a chance to return home.

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(inspiring music)

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("U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer)

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♪ You can't touch ♪

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♪ Yo, I told you, you can't touch this ♪

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♪ Why you standing there, man ♪

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♪ You can't touch this ♪

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("Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice)

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♪ Ice, ice baby ♪

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♪ Vanilla Ice, ice ♪

36:28

("Vision of Love" Mariah Carey)

36:30

♪ I had a vision of love ♪

36:31

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Sam, can you feel me?

36:34

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With all my heart.

36:38

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Says, with all his heart.

36:41

1991 Duke Yearlook

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