BCM - Spring 2005

LINDEN LANE

•		Life force:
		A day with Sister Prejean
•		The Irish classifieds:
		A lost-and-found for the American migration
•		Home base:
		The new retired faculty suite
•		"The only pope we ever knew":
		Campus service for John Paul II
•		Neutral territory:
		BC's Citizen Seminars at age 50
•		Flower power:
		Daffodil Judge Andrew Armstrong '05
•		Food court:
		Pass the Grade D meat, please
•		Double take:
		Growing up Asian-American
•		Killed in action:
		David S. Connolly '94, Capt., U.S. Army Reserve
•		Notable:
		Students return a forgotten score to the Baroque repertory
•		School choice:
		O'Keefe named Lynch School dean
•		Reorientation:
		University revises notice to welcome gay members of community
•		Man in the middle:
		Rwanda's Paul Kagame
•		Story book:
		Legends from the Heights
•		The soldier's poet:
		Thomas Heath and his "Proud Refrain"
•		A reader's notes:
		Roots
•		Once, It Seemed Better:
		Poem by Rafael Campo, MD
•		Spin cities:
		When urban America fell in love with the bike
•		Head start:
		Freshmen are choosing more demanding courses
•		News briefs

	Our man Diem By Seth Jacobs How America came to back South Vietnam's despised and doomed president The natural Photography by James Balog '74 Stalking the country's great trees Whose life? By Lisa Sowle Cahill, Jon D. Fuller MD, SJ, James Keenan, SJ, and John J. Paris, SJ Three theologians and a Jesuit physician look beyond the Terri Schiavo case A night at the Baldwins By Cara Feinberg Student filmmakers get their reward
	SPECIAL SECTION: THE CHURCH IN THE 21ST CENTURY • End of an age A Protestant scholar's lament for the vanishing urban Catholic church By Martin E. Marty • Persuasion An anti-abortion lawyer presents her case By William Bole


	WORKS AND DAYS
	• Legal aide: Supreme Court clerk James P. Dowden '97, JD'00


	Cover photo: Texas live oak, Quercus virginiana var. fusiformis, Rio Frio, Texas. Photograph by James Balog