In early March Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plunged into the ocean with 239 people aboard On April 9 16-year-old Alex Hribal injured 21 people during a stabbing rampage at his Pennsylvania High School On April 16 the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls as part of an escalating c
The New York Times wonders Has Stanford replaced Harvard as the most acclaimed school in the country According to the Times Stanford University has become America rsquo s ldquo it rdquo school by measures that Harvard once dominated Stanford has had the nation rsquo s lowest undergraduate acce
Just in time for June a number of outlets and authors are offering suggestions for summer reading Even J P Morgan has a few ideas Click on the following links to review the titles For my next post on summer reading I 39 ll feature some Catholic and spiritual selections The Boston GlobeThe Los
With so many commencement addresses each year it 39 s easy to miss the less publicized but equally important honors given to those who are not keynote speakers One of the most important of such honors among Catholic schools is the University of Notre Dame 39 s Laetare Medal According to the Univ
Though I haven 39 t read through or listened to all the commencement speeches from the last couple weeks I don 39 t imagine there 39 s a better one than that delivered by Admiral William H McRaven a Navy Seal and commander of U S Special Operations Command In his recent address at the Univer