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...well as at the 232 Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. Some 30 years ago, such institutions offered a good, if sometimes narrow, education to children of the Catholic ghetto, few of whom broke away to the wider world of Yale or Radcliffe. Not so today. Following the window-opening influence of the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, many Catholic schools broadened their curricula, admitted more non-Catholic students, turned control of their boards -- and sometimes the president's office -- over to laymen and enforced rigorous standards of academic research...
...matter how much the North End may be changing, it retains a certain appealing air of Old World stability. As I walked down the quiet, brick-fronted streets, it seemed as though I was entering a timeless area. In the window of an Italian grocery store a cat lounged indolently, gazing uncuriously at passers-by. Off the main streets, narrow lanes wound out of sight, leading to concealed courtyards fronted by iron gates and hanging plants...
Next door to the Sweetwater, the ZanzibarRestaurant and Tropical Dance Floor was lookingfor people as well, but they were closed, which,to be truthful, was not a disappointment. Down thestreet, a music store window had a sign for dataentry people. I went up three flights of stairsand through two chain-link security doors to betold, "Damn, I asked them to take that sign outlast week." The data entry folk looked nice; theyhad a great view over the Common and a very mellowboss with a mustache and jug ears, who explainedto me that they're the people who rent musicalinstruments...
When I ordered my dish at the open window of the apparently nameless restaurant next to the Thai food kitchen, I could see two boys sitting in the kitchen, shelling the peas that I would eat, and scrambling eggs in the hugest wok I had ever seen. Minutes after I placed my order, a supermarket blue-and-white ceramic plate full of "fried rice with pork and shrimps" was placed in front...
...student front, Silber arrested and suspended demonstrators as recently as three years ago, when the hapless B.U. eight protested for divestment using the tactics of civil disobedience. In 1986 Silber threatened to expel student Josef Abrahamowitz and three friends who hung a pro-divestment banner out of a dorm window. Abrahamowitz took the case to court and won, arguing that students who hung "Go, Mets" banners out their windows were not met with the same repression. Now, dissatisfied with merely crushing public expression of students' First Amendment rights, Silber is trying to force students to stop having sex and throwing...