Bleeding Blue Blood By JAY AKASIE

True, it's certainly over for the ambitious district attorney who spearheaded the case, Mike Nifong, who as of this week was stripped of his title and barred from practicing law ever again.

It could be over for the two exotic dancers, "Precious" and "Honey," who momentarily created a cause célèbre for Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and much of the Duke faculty, but who have now sunk back into an obscure existence.

The case is definitely over as far as the president of Duke University, Richard Brodhead, is concerned. The school's administration announced Monday that it had agreed on financial settlements with the three accused students, Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and David Evans, with the expectation that doing so would dissuade the families of the three boys from suing the pants off Duke, right down to the last dime of its endowment.

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