Beyond Just War in Afghanistan
By Maryann Cusimano Love
Are current U.S. government peace-building practices enough? What does it take to build peace?
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Far afield: Edge of allegiance
By Jason Kelly '95
When Notre Dame lined up for a last-second field goal against USC in 1986, I couldn’t watch. A second-half comeback built to such a nerve-fraying crescendo that I had to leave the house.
Classic Molarity 28-32
By Michael Molinelli '82
Strips 28-31 of the popular comic strip Molarity, which previewed in The Observer in 1977.
The Playroom: Duct tape
By Maraya Goyer Steadman ’89, ’90MBA
As I hear the familiar sound of my son falling down the stairs, my first reaction is not one of concern or even a shred of the protective instinct found in your average ant colony. My first reaction is one of defeat. “Damn, we are going to miss our portrait-sitting again.”
The Genius in Me
By Eric Zorn
Why are some people more creative than others? How can people make themselves more creative?
Keeping the New
By Lyn Relph ’61
One of the answers to an eternal question I stumbled across in the course of my undergraduate experience at Notre Dame goes like this: with age we get more timid and conservative because we suffer from hardening of the categories.
Networthy ND 6
By Notre Dame Magazine staff
Our offerings this week range from a peek at football coach Brian Kelly’s favorite painting to a professor’s defense of Catholic higher education. There’s lots more, including something about coach Mike Brey in a kilt.
Winter Keep
By John Christopher Fine ’67J.D.
Helping a herd of mustangs survive the brutal season also meant preserving a vital element of the American spirit.
Echoes: Who Knew? The New Lou
By Ted Mandell '86
Why am I talking to Lou Holtz? Like every other Notre Dame fan, I’m trying to wake up the echoes. Trying to map a direct connection from the uncertain present to the glorious past.
Buy my book, please
By Sean Callahan ’87
These days, authors are learning they have to be marketers as well. “It really behooves the authors to promote the hell out of their books,” says a literary agent..
The Playroom: The iPad dilemma
By Maraya Goyer Steadman ’89, ’90MBA
As I am sitting there at my dining room table, I’m thinking about the joy of drinking coffee and reading the Sunday paper, and then it hits me like a lightning bolt. Do people with iPads read the Sunday paper?
Far afield: Commercial interruption
By Jason A. Kelly '95
The Heisman Trust requires little of its winners beyond eligibility, which explains why certain notorious former winners still have their stiff-arm statue. Banishing Bush alone from USC history still seems gratuitous.
Unbalanced: Doctor, doctor
By Carol Schaal '91M.A.
After surviving a morning of teeth-rattling chills, I checked WebMD to see what illness my symptoms might indicate. I was expecting a list of flu, strep throat, bronchitis. Normal stuff. Instead, the first thing I saw was: Plague.
The Playroom: School daze
By Maraya Goyer Steadman ’89, ’90MBA
Last week my son started first grade. I cried. He was fine. He looked handsome in his uniform. “William, you look like a future CEO!” my friend exclaimed.
Soundings: A whole new game
By Kerry Temple '74
Sometimes you get blindsided.There I was, happily getting ready for the season opener. Notre Dame-Purdue. Launch of the Brian Kelly era. Then my wife reported the weather forecast. That’s when it happened.
TV or Not TV: Work of Reality TV
By Christine Becker
Work of Art brought together two different cultural milieus: reality TV and the world of art. But did it work?
The Playroom: Summer’s end
By Maraya Goyer Steadman ’89, ’90MBA
My daughter climbs the stairs of the playground equipment. The wind wraps curls into her eyes and she turns to me and smiles. “Look at me, Mommy!” It is then I see a butterfly lying in the sand.
Far Afield: You enthuse, you lose
By Jason Kelly '95
Notre Dame has a new football coach. But getting excited about Brian Kelly may be a perilous thing. Still, it’s hard to resist …