The re-publishing of George Santayana's two most significant works on America and American culture in Rethinking the Western Tradition series makes a great deal of sense. Santayana (1863–1952), philosopher, best-selling author, poet, man of letters, and humanist, in his numerous books provided us not only with a system of philosophy but also with a profound criticism of Western culture. As a Sp...

It has been conjectured that if G is a negatively curved discrete group with space at infinity ∂G the 2 -sphere, then G has a properly discontinuous, cocompact, isometric action on hyperbolic 3 -space. Cannon and Swenson reduced the conjecture to determining that a certain sequence of coverings of ∂G is conformal in the sense of Cannon’s combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem. In this paper it i...

Re ec ce en nt t T Tr re en nd ds s i in n t th he e I In nh he er ri it ta an nc ce e o of f P Po ov ve er rt ty y a an nd d F Fa am mi il ly y S St tr ru uc ct tu ur re e ABSTRACT. This study investigates trends in the interdependence of poverty and family structure from one generation to the next, focusing specifically on mothers and daughters. This aspect of the mobility process has not bee...

1. Little over a year ago we wrote to you to reflect upon the message of our sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, on the occasion of the Centenary of her death. We had no idea then that we would be writing another circular letter about her so soon. This time it is to consider the meaning and significance of the title Doctor of the Church which, as Pope John Paul II announced rec...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

My first encounter and only personal experience with heroin took place in 1966, when I was living in London. What everybody knows about the British and heroin is that they supply it on prescription to heroin addicts. But my first sight of the drug seemed to have nothing to do with addicts. My elder daughter, then seven, had caught a cold and developed a hacking cough. The doctor listened at her...

wrote to me. He was right; I hadn’t thought carefully about that small addition. The truth is that as a developer you practice architecture daily, but only rarely do you have time to re ect on your corresponding decisions, actions, and their consequences. Software architecture affects the quality of what you build and how you build it. The Importance of Software Architecture ... The most obviou...