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Then came 1967 and the race riots that lasted five days, took 43 lives and changed the composition of Detroit almost overnight. The trickle of white ethnic Catholics to the suburbs that had started after World War II became a flood. Within seven years, the city's African-American residents had become a majority. But only 50,000 or so were Catholic, which meant the archdiocese could no longer support the same network of parishes and schools. (See the top 10 religion stories...
...there another life in American art to compare to Arshile Gorky's? His arc from struggle to breakthrough to tragedy is slow, then swift, then dazzling and finally devastating. In the seven or so years before he took his life in 1948, he produced some of the greatest, most explosive works of the 20th century, a synthesis of Surrealism and abstraction that unlocked voluptuous new possibilities for painting and opened the way to Abstract Expressionism. It wasn't a long life, but it was lit by fire...
...final frame, the speed of play picked up and the Crimson and the Saints made it a more back-and-forth game. But Harvard still held the lead and seven minutes into the period the Crimson struck again. Sophomore forward Alisa Baumgartner made a pass to Buesser who put it past St. Lawrence’s goalie Maxie Weisz and into the top right corner of the goal to make it a 2-0 game...
Clarkson leveled the score less than seven minutes later...
Junior Alex Thompson enjoyed another outstanding performance for the Crimson, netting six of his seven weekend goals against the Camels. Despite returning to the pool Saturday afternoon following the devastating defeat at the hands of MIT, Harvard roared out of the gate against Connecticut College (3-16) and exacted a measure of retribution through its dominant performance...