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...university itself, the Roman Catholic administration, would prefer not to be defined by a leather bag full of wind. Allowing Faust to complete his term spoke to this perspective as eloquently as the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh when Notre Dame's president said, "The players are first and foremost students. A coach's position should not be at the mercy of last week's score or the vagaries of a single season." All the same, the essence of the place is signaled by the outstretched arms on a campus mural known to the students as "Touchdown Jesus." The statue...
...published. The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey (Workman, $10.95) is a morality tale for children from eight to 13, in which a demonical IBM 4341 mainframe teaches a New England prep-school student that computing can be more profitable than petty theft. Says Buckley, referring obliquely to an ancient Roman philosophy of virtue: "There is a tug in the story toward right reason." The book shows no sign of having been tossed off in half an afternoon. "I think it's a lot of twaddle that using a word processor affects the quality of writing for the worse," says the author...
Nonetheless, when Architect Frank Gehry was commissioned to design a campus for the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, he had little direct formal precedent. Who knew how a downtown Roman Catholic campus in California was supposed to look? The small site is in a raggedy neighborhood; the budget was not great ($4.8 million); students and faculty yearned for a physical sense of community. Gehry's solution is a small miracle. Using his customary sorts of raw materials--galvanized steel, plywood and stucco--he has virtually invented a new form of late-20th century urban classicism, simultaneously gritty and dignified...
...with a shelter for dying street dwellers in Calcutta in the early 1950s, Mother Teresa has built her Missionaries of Charity into an organization of 2,000 sisters and 400 brothers who reach out to the homeless, hungry and sick in 52 countries. Yet it took all of the Roman Catholic nun's prestige to provide a New York City hospice for patients in the terminal stages of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At the facility's Christmas Eve dedication, Mother Teresa was on hand. Of AIDS patients, she said, "Each one of them is Jesus in a distressing disguise...
...demonstrations gained support, the government tried to choke off the opposition. It first closed down the popular Radio Soleil, run by the Roman Catholic Church, charging its management with broadcasting "alarmist" news reports. A general news blackout followed as other stations voluntarily abandoned public affairs programming. Police arrested Opposition Leader Hubert de Ronceray, a lawyer and sociologist, charging him with sedition after "subversive" documents were found in his home. Once a member of Duvalier's Cabinet, De Ronceray, 54, has persistently ridiculed last July's rigged national referendum, in which, the government contends, 99.98% of those who voted backed...