Campus digest

Finale

The last Dancer’s Christmas

Forevermore

Reclaiming a wayward son of Boston

Fuel for thought

The case of the trucking industry

Major addition

Studying Islamic civilizations and societies

Whistle stop

Sounds of simplicity

State of belief

America’s relationship with God

Data file: Class of 2012

By the numbers

Close-up

Only a game

From the Burns Library

A writer’s trappings

First response

At 9:50 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the crew of Truck 105 arrived at the Pentagon

Testimony

Capitol Hill watch

Transition game

Chasing a hoop dream

The weight

The last lecture

As if life depends on it

Cover photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Life support

The business of public schools is to educate children. The business of the Lynch School’s Boston Connects program is to enable that education

by William Bole

On the strip

Ladies, Gentlemen, choose your weapons

Photographs by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Disaster plan

When the earth quakes and the winds blow, who are you going to call? It’s a political question

by Alan Wolfe

Born again

How to revitalize post-ghetto Catholicism

by Mark Massa, SJ

Quotable

Harvard professor Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, from a talk about a feminist reconstruction of Jesus on November 11, 2008

Coming attractions

C21’s spring events

The eyes have it

The truth about fast-forwarding

Fresh eggs

Caviar connoisseur Richard Brauman ’98

“The campaign,” “The nonprofit motive,” “Devine’s hand,” “Club fund,” “Second crossing,” “English majors united”

Class action