Letters

‘Flutie’ Mooted

To the Editor:

In “Do They Really Want to Be Like Rutgers?” [April 9], Terry Golway wrote: “More than 20 years ago, dozens of colleges and universities around the country tried to take a page from Boston College, birthplace of the so-called ‘Flutie Effect.’ As writer Murray Sperber, a retired professor of American Read More

Artists Fall Victim To Security Concerns

The demise of an ethnic cultural festival in the nether regions of New England, i.e. the Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, generally would be of little urgency for the cosmopolitan types who inhabit this island. And yet it should be. Why? Because the festival has become an unexpected and inexplicable casualty of the war on Read More