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When hundreds of hostages were killed during a shootout in southern Russia in 2004, the world got a glimpse of how Vladimir Putin values human life.

The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities is aiming to — yes — end poverty in America through research, scholarship and frontline savvy. The early returns are encouraging.

‘It is the attribute not exhibited, the disposition not there, the characteristic apparent only in its absence, the one distinction demonstrated not in what is, but in what isn’t.’

On the ground in Soroti, Uganda, the Notre Dame economist has been working to improve the quality of life for those whose faith has moved him.

How could I forget the dirty little secret of those idyllic summers at the farm in Minnesota?

When his Swiss father-in-law chose assisted suicide, the Catholic son-in-law weighed the rights and wrongs and meanings of a good death.

You are the first hospitalized COVID-19 patient in Minnesota and the first such patient on ECMO in the Western Hemisphere. The hospital hides your name on the records for privacy.

Here’s what can happen when grown-ups aren’t ready for their playing days to be over.

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As Dava Newman '86 strives to get us to Mars, her personal goal is simple — to reach human potential.

'The explanation for why we are so addicted to complaining may be a simple one: because there is so much to complain about.'