The guys and gals of the Duke Conservative Union, who patiently urged patience through the whole poisonous episode last year, have registered their final blow in the Duke lacrosse wars: a humble, elegant one-page letter asking for an apology from the Group of 88. The eighty-eight, you’ll recall, were a cabal of radical professors–but not a cabal, because there were eighty-eight of them –who vilified anyone who attempted to presume innocence on the part of the lacrosse players.