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...city where 47% of adults are functionally illiterate and only 25% of high school freshmen make it to graduation, U of D is the chute through which bright young men can get to college. The school boasts a near perfect graduation rate and sends 99% of its graduates on to higher education. (In 2009 the one student who didn't go to college turned down a scholarship from the University of Michigan to sign a seven-figure contract with the Detroit Tigers.) (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesuit Message Drives Detroit's Last Catholic School | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...hockey has already reached a historic achievement. The No. 10 Crimson (2-2-0, 2-2-0 ECAC) secured the program’s 500th win against No. 7 St. Lawrence (4-4-3, 2-3-0 ECAC) in a 3-0 decision Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shutout Gives Harvard 500th Win | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...York road contests will be the first games away from the Bright Hockey Center this season. Last year, the Crimson went 0-11-5 away from home. With this in mind, the players acknowledge the added challenge of attaining victories this weekend...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 5 Cornell To Provide Early Test on Road | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...book—which Nader describes as being “practical utopian fiction” rather than a novel—is to describe a future that he sees as both bright and possible...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nader Speaks on Fiction Foray | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Parting the curtains of “In the Courtyard of the Beloved,” the viewer enters a sacred alcove of bright colors, intricate geometric decorations, and minarets. The installation—part of the new exhibition at the Peabody Museum, “Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path”—sweeps the viewer away from the gallery, flies him across oceans, pulls him through the crowded streets of Delhi, and finally ushers him into a Sufi shrine. There, the digital still images and audio recordings bring into view a personal practice...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer | Title: Middle Ground | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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