Honor bound

For two decades, calligrapher Grace Peters has been memorializing student debaters

Star search

Faculty recruitment in competitive times

Raidin the Wake

The joys of “driveling rigmarole”

Disparaging words

A cruel artifact gets scholar’s treatment

Running with bulls

Market evangelist Jim Cramer brings Mad Money to BC

Drama lessons

The not-so-odd couple

Changes at the Rat

Italian, teriyaki, and vegetarian

Resistance

The example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Annual rankings

As noted in Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report

Campus digest

News in brief

From the McMullen Museum

An Islamic composition

Call of the rails

For a time in America, the hobo was a hero and Jack London, his agent

Necessity

Jim Barry ’66 put aside his hat, gloves, wallet, and cell phone. The next 24 hours would be a lesson in homelessness

Abstracts

Recent faculty writings

Enterpiece

The art of the Islamic door

Honeymoon Snapshot: Diptych

Cover photo by Gary Wayne Gilbert

A paper life

The Sweeney files

by Brian Doyle

No kidding

Notes from the positive laughter movement

by Paul Lewis

A moderate proposal

What Americans on the left and right should agree upon

by Alan Wolfe

Tomorrowland

Six ways of viewing the possibilities

by Ben Birnbaum

A thinning faith

The shape of Irish Catholicism today

by Garret FitzGerald

Quotable

Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether on Church reform, July 15, 2006

Fair trade

An economic solution to the kidney shortage

The wrangler

South Park producer Anne Garefino ’81

“About pills,” “Commencement addressed,” “More vets, more views,” “First ladies,” “Fiction factor,” “Church and state”

Extension program