Paul Galloway

The last 1,000 years have seen some memorable architectural styles-Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Modern, Post-Modern-and the creations of great architects such as Michelangelo, Palladio, Bernini, Wren, Burnham, Sullivan, Le...

A sizable stack of mail awaited Rev. Richard McBrien , chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame , when he entered his office in O`Shaughnessy Hall...

In the early days of this nation, governments used lotteries to raise money for roads, schools, hospitals, prisons, bridges and canals, to finance military campaigns and to dispose of expensive...

William Baer, founder and editor of The Formalist, said he`s amazed at the number of people who don`t understand metrics in poetry, who indeed are metrical illiterates. ''I don`t see...

No area of the country seems immune from the troubling question of how the justice system should deal with teenage murderers. A made-for-TV movie ''Too Young to Die,'' inspired by...

2:30 a.m. Police officer Pat Gass is behind the desk when a call comes in from an anxious boyfriend seeking his ''missing'' girlfriend. ''No, I don`t see her name on...

''I got a bunch of dope here!'' Strain shouts. The three youths tense; one starts to run. ''Freeze!'' Ward shouts. ''On the ground! On your stomachs! Arms out!'' They obey....

At the beginning of a recent weekend, five Tribune reporters spent a day with Chicago police officers from the 18th District, whose station is at 113 W. Chicago Ave. They...

8:55 p.m. A call of suspicious men in the alley at North Sheffield Avenue turns out to be two friends working on their cars. ''I got $2,000 in this stereo,...

Among the saints whose cases are particuarly notable or unusual are: - Joan of Arc, who was canonized in 1920, 489 years after she was burned at the stake for...