• The accidental technologist: A chemist’s foray into the future of data storage
• For Baghdad: Iraq’s Jesuit college
• Lagniappes: Lost and found between the pages
• Courtside: BC and the Michigan rulings
• Take-home: Questions from a final exam
• Growth chart: Advances at the Connell School
• Eyewitness: On view at the McMullen Museum
• Home/work: When mothers leave welfare for work
• Culture klatch: Frank talk on Islam and modernity
• Descartes was right: The boom in philosophy
• Public offering: Carroll School conference on the Market
• Tribute: Fossil is named for BC geologist
• Bathed in memory: Easing fear in Alzheimer's sufferers
• On my turning 61: Poem by Bill Costley '63
• Desconstruction: Finding meaning in America’s houses
• Southern exposure: BC and the ACC
• Chowda: Jesuit cuisine
• Front line report: Teachers weigh in on state-mandated tests
• The jig is up: World events overtake Gaelic Roots
• News briefs

Through Islamic eyes

By Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom

Five manifestations of the Muslim vision

The lunatic in the pew

By Alice McDermott

Confessions of a natural-born Catholic

Passing free

By James M. O'Toole

Black in the South, Irish in the North, the Healys slipped the bonds of race in Civil War America

WORKS AND DAYS

• Mean streets:
Homicide detective Robert Cherry ’90

POSTSCRIPT

• Word Play poetry contest
Teaching Amy to drive in the snow
By Stephen Valentine ’98

• Also
Poems by Dan Howarth ’98, Katie Bell, Tim Christian ’74, and Tom McGill M.Div ’70