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Four Harvard free throws gave the Crimson an eight point lead with seconds to play. Despite Penn center Vince Curran's 3-pointer with 20 seconds to play, the Crimson lead was safe...
Heading the list are starters Ray Marshall (center) and Vince Curran (forward), both 6'7". They are joined at that lofty Ivy height by forwards Mike Milobsky and Sean Dineen, who lead a deep Quaker bench. Sophomore center Andy Wise stands above them...
Since the 1987 Vatican-inspired ouster of the Rev. Charles Curran from the theology faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America, educators have nervously waited for the first papal decree setting overall policy in higher education. Would John Paul II, who is determined to restrict dissident theologians, lay the ground for further purges? When the decree was finally issued last week, most academicians greeted it with relief. It seemed to be an endorsement of free intellectual investigation and the autonomy of academic institutions. But while the Pope had decided against a strategy of direct confrontation, there were passages...
...Curran is hardly the only U.S. Catholic religious teacher who disagrees with official church policy on birth control, abortion and homosexuality, the issues that brought on his demission. Diversity and non-orthodoxy are frequently the rule rather than the exception at the 230 U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, especially on sexual issues and on the Pope's adamant opposition to women priests. Indeed, many of the country's diverse Catholic postsecondary schools resemble secular institutions more than purely religious ones...
Tired of waiting, Rohrabacher attempted to begin his own hearings on the alleged quotas last year, soliciting information from Asian-Americans who believed they had been the subjects of discrimination in college admissions. He discontinued the effort when it met with a cool response, Curran said...