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Of his own free will, Earl Pappy has taken on the lowest-scoring high school in Durham County and is trying to make things better. That's passion if I've ever heard of it. Not everybody agrees on his strategies, but once I spoke with him, I realized that he wasn't so bad.
Broadcast History
Youth Noise Network show/ WXDU 88.7/ Jan 21, 2007
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