PRIMARY SOURCES
Enough to retire on
Podcast from KimSnider.com
Finance blogger Kim Snider offers a podcast of an interview with Annika Sunnden, research associate at the Boston College Center for Retirement Research and author of Coming Up Short: The Challenge of 401(k) Plans (Brookings Institution Press, 2004).
System crash
Audio from WBUR-FM
NPR's On Point host Tom Ashbrook interviews Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, about his book Does American Democracy Still Work? (Yale, 2006).
Bridge building
EJournal from the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
The inaugural issue of Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, an annual journal of articles, reviews, and conference proceedings, includes studies of "the suffering servant" in Christian and Jewish theologies and a set of five reflections on the Vatican II document Nostre Aetate.
Running with bulls
Story from Boston College Magazine
Market evangelist Jim Cramer brings Mad Money to BC
First Year Academic Convocation
Video from Front row
Boston College's third annual academic convocation for first-year students features a keynote address by John McCain, Republican senator from Arizona, who makes a moral appeal to the students to look above self-interest in their lives and careers. He makes the same challenge to the government, saying the United States is “an unfinished nation” that “must not sacrifice our values in the war on terrorism.”
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