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The tectonic shifts threw U of D into crisis. In less than a decade, the school's rolls plummeted from a high of about 1,100 students to no more than 500. In 1976 the Jesuits found themselves beset by parents, alumni and faculty arguing that the school should follow...
There were no trumpet blasts or jubilant ceremonies to mark the occasion. But the decision by Czech President Vaclav Klaus to sign an agreement he loathed on Tuesday was momentous, nonetheless. The long-delayed passage of the Lisbon Treaty - the Czech Republic had been the last holdout among the European...
Yet this may not be enough to stop the usual E.U. squabbling in the end. The newly empowered leaders will likely have trouble preventing splits on major issues, if the 2003 dispute over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq is anything to go by. With this in mind, perhaps a...
Recently, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith wrote in his annual report that our vaunted library system will need to be reshaped with “a dramatically smaller base of resources.” While times are tough, the administration should be extremely reluctant to slash...
In January 2004, Pugh emceed a conference on homophobia, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, a revered institution here. Local newspapers picked up the story, publicly confirming Pugh's homosexuality - something his friends and colleagues already knew. "I am a respectable member of this community. And...