May 2007
The Impatience of Christopher Fox
By: Michael O. Garvey
Irish America magazine’s Top 100 Awards Ceremony, held last month in New York City at Broadway’s Hilton Theatre, was a glitzy affair, complete with a flashbulb-popping cocktail reception and selected musical numbers from “The Pirate Queen” performed on stage. Notre Dame’s chairman emeritus Donald Keough was there, as were Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, the former president. Ireland’s Ambassador Noel Fahey and the actors Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne also were among the guests. >
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Theater proves perfect stage for Italian instruction
By: Gail Hinchion Mancini
“Ragazzi,” declares Laura Colangelo, calling the students of her Italian theater workshop to order in an O’Shaughnessy Hall classroom at Notre Dame. >
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Garnett discusses Supreme Court decision on abortion ban
By: Gail Hinchion Mancini
The Supreme Court decision upholding the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act is “a narrow, but important one,” according to Richard W. Garnett, associate professor in the Notre Dame Law School. >
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A papal mistake gladly forgiven
By: Michael O. Garvey
Before he became Pope Benedict XVI two years ago, and even before he became famous for his direction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was a prolific theologian whose dozens of books were widely and respectfully read. In 2003 he began yet another book on what he calls his “personal search for the face of the Lord.” >
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Cell phone signals could provide bird’s-eye view of crises and emergency response
By: Gail Hinchion Mancini
Someday, emergency response teams handling a crisis like Hurricane Katrina, or even a major traffic jam, may coordinate their responses using a system that projects a bird’s-eye view of human movement by tracking cell phone signals via computer. >
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Supply-and-demand driving gas prices
By: Dennis Brown
The basic economic principle of supply-and-demand – but mostly demand – is causing the average price of a gallon of gasoline to approach $3, according to a University of Notre Dame economist. >
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Professor edits new book on Jean-Luc Marion
By: Kathy Pitts
Jean-Luc Marion unarguably stands as the leading figure in French phenomenology as well as one of the proponents of the so-called “theological turn” in European philosophy. >
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