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  5 Minutes With a Sociologist, Jailed for Refusing to Divulge Subjects, About the Controversy at Boston College

  By Peter Monaghan

  A sociologist jailed in the 1990s for protecting his subjects talks about the controversy over the Belfast Project at Boston College.

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  The Glossy Viewbook Loses Its Luster

  By Beckie Supiano

  Among a college's courtship materials, the expensive "coffee-table book" is giving way to newer strategies.

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