is that we cannot hope to sustain a public life without them. Political philosopher Michael Sandel warns that"a politics that's empty of larger meanings--moral, spiritual meanings, or for that...
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CAN THIS WAR EVER END? NARROWED OPTIONS IN EL SALVADOR "All priests are Communists and Jesuits are the worst scum." That's what Roberto D'Aubuisson had to say in the early eighties about...
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REPORT ON ARGENTINA THE GENERALS DONT BUT THEY'LL TAKE A PARDON In his moving work Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman reflected on his thirty-one months of...
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A NAN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE MICHAEL HARRINGTON IN OUR HISTORY PETER STEINFELS, JAMES FINN, & PATRICK LACEFIELD Life Is a Trust Michael Harrington first appeared in Common-weal's pages October...
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REPORT FROM EL SALVADOR THE WAR CONTINUES ARENA WINS FOR NOW It is Saturday March 11. Ruben Zamora is hurting. He has a shooting muscular pain in his shoulder that slices toward the nerves...
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EL SALVADOR: LAND OF NO COMPROMISE WHAT CAN WE EXPECT NEXT? JIM CHAPIN & PATRICK LACEFIELD It was hot, dry, and dusty in the town of Ilobasco on the twenty-first day of February. The rains would...
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CONFESSIONS OF A ROLE MODEL
AND A VOICE TO SING WITH
Joan Baez
Summit Books, $19.95, 378 pp.
Patrick Lacefield
I honestly can't remember when I first heard Joan Baez, her achingly pure soprano...
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REPORT FROM ARGENTINA TIME OUT OR TIME'S UP ALFONSIN & THE MILITARY A movie making the rounds these days in Buenos Aires speaks volumes about the continuing swirl of controversy in...
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SWAGGART SWINGS THROUGH EL SALVADOR SAVING SOULS & CASTING OUT DEMONS PATRICK LACEFIELD Till the day He tells me why. He loves me so I can feel His hand in mine That's all I need to know I...
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