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Saturday's semifinal contest was a two-chapter story. Fordham dominated the first chapter, with B.U. never far behind. The Rams led, 61-58, with less than a minute to play, but B.U. refused to die, and won on a 25-ft. swisher by guard Shinkwin...
...trip is the latest chapter in the 35-year-old story of the Ylvisaker-Chuzhang friendship. The two deans reestablished contact in 1972, when former President Richard M. Nixon's trip to China initiated the current rapprochement between Washington and Beijing (Peking...
...February 20 order of the Supreme Court, the First Circuit Court of Appeals will review its 1978 decision supporting the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...
...into the Church of Rome would be disastrous for the monarchy, England being rabidly anti-Catholic. Charles has subordinated his own religious convictions to the good of the state, until it was too late for anyone to care. Fraser's description of his deathbed conversion is the most moving chapter in the book. She abandons the contrived dramaticism of the earlier chapters; here she calmly tells us what happened and reconstructs what must have been in Charles's mind. From his point of view, this conversion was the most important decision of Charles II's life. It provides a splendid...
Fraser doesn't explain this amazing reversal of public opinion. "The tide of revolution had run out," she says, feebly. That doesn't explain much. She's bored us with details of unsuccessful intrigues for a hundred pages; giving us at least a chapter on this final, successful intrigue would seem only fair. She's chosen to emphasize the drama and the inexplicability of the Restoration. It surprises us, as she wants it to, but we're just a little too astonished to be pleased...