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ISRAEL & THE NEOCONS Murray Polner & Adam Simms How can peace happen? To the interests of Israel drive U.S. Middle East policy? It's a fair question, though anyone who poses it risks being...

WHEN ISRAEL IS WRONG Some uncomfortable facts (October 2002)

WHEN ISRAEL IS WRONG Christians shouldn't be afraid to say so Murray Polner & Adam Simms From 1973 to 1990, the two of us edited Present Tense, a Jewish, liberal, dovish magazine published by the...

Jewish Power (January 1997)

YES & NO Jewish Power Inside the American Jewish Establishment J. J. Goldberg Addison-Wesley, $25,422 pp. Murray Polner American Jews are doing quite well, thank you. In fact, we are doing...

Working-class War (April 1993)

have the virtue of drawing attention to is- some added weight to some plausible but sues of conscience and religious truth. The highly contestable personal judgments chief utility of...

Will jobs go south? (October 1992)

REPORT ON FREE TRADE WILL JOBS GO SOUTH? ALONG WITH SAFETY & HEALTH ntil recently, almost no one paid attention to a secret treaty that was being negotiated between the United States, Canada, and...

The threat of peace (May 1992)

THE THREAT OF PEACE MURRAY POLNER CAN WE TURN SUBS INTO PLOUGHSHARES? There is a specter haunting the American economy and it's cal led peace. In Groton, Connecticut, production of the Navy's...

The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (March 1991)

interpretation of Christ's passage from being "rich" to being "poor." Finally, the bibliog- raphy has some surprising omissions: for example, G. Schneider on the Acts of the Apostles, H. Schlier on...

From Beirut to Jerusalem: (September 1989)

BOOKS A maze with no exit? FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, $22.95, 525 pp. Murray Polner In the summerof 1982, while Beirut bureau chief for the New York Times,...

A tangible gesture (October 1981)

A TANGIBLE GESTURE COMPENSATION FOR THE JAPANESE? ONCE WORKED with a west coast Japanese-American who I had served in the army during World War II while his parents and younger sisters were...

A tangible gesture (October 1981)

Solidarity Day LABOR ON THE MARCH A HUNGRY GIANT A FEW YEARS AGO Irving Howe was defending the labor movement at a meeting that included some of its more impatient critics. "The labor movement is...

Opening Pandora's box (October 1979)

AGAINST THE DRAFT Opening Pandora's box MURRAY POLNER of...

HALF AND HALF AND UNWANTED (March 1972)

whites. Furthermore, busing may be necessary now not only to achieve integration more quickly but also to emphasize the importance of pressing for more far-reaching educational reforms....

THE VIETNAM VET (March 1972)

in 1953--perhaps could not be integrated today--if the diocese had not been autocra.tically governed. It would have been impossible for Bishop Waters to find a truly representative committee of...

CAN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BE SAVED?: (October 1970)

IF THERE WAS INNOVATION ANYWHERE, IT WAS IN PHILADELPHIA - AND IT FAILED CAN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Until very recently public school educators were held in awe. Hadn't the schools provided the means...

NO JEW NOR CATHOLIC NEED APPLY (June 1969)

ment"mneither acquit nor convict--rather than simply acquit? An analysis of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Supreme Court appeals practice clearly indicates the reasons. Wyzanski...

18-MINUTE VERDICT (March 1969)

action to remove the causes of such strife. And this ac- tion must include massive governmental effort in the eco- nomic and educational areas; too many people, inside and outside the government,...

WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING ARE YOU RIGHT BACK WHERE YOU WERE? (January 1969)

tions (such as paying women to have loops inserted) since the ideological pretense must be maintained that these programs are established for the benefit of the lower classeg themselves and have...

Down on the Farm (May 1963)

"The Town Is Dying and There Is No Cure" Down on the Farm MURRAY POLNER THE HISTORY of the chronicling and interpretation of rural and small town America has been written with a quasi-religious...

The Race Toward Total Ugliness (September 1962)

luctance to take the risks of Common Market membership. Yet if that should happen, it will only mean that Britain will be "taken into Europe" later rather than sooner, and by a Prime Minister other...

Elections in Japan (August 1956)

PYRRHIC VICTORY Elections in Japan MURRAY POLNER A MERICANS in Japan saw many strangely familiar sights during the recent elections. In the larger towns and cities most candidates...

Poltronieri, Raymond J

Poltronieri, Raymond J.

POMERLEAU, DAVID J. O'BRIEN (REV.) WILLIAM

Poncin, Rose

Pond, Randall

Ponsot, Marie

Pool, Frances

Poole, Stafford

poor, The working

Poorman, Mark L

POPCAK, GREGORY K.

Pope, Dan