CORRESPONDENCE Women-Church cheers Cincinnati, Ohio To the Editors: Thank you for the article on Women-Church by Karen Sue Smith, "Claiming Our Power" [November 6]. The piece is a very fine...
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Editorials Manipulating death Two newborns are dying. One has a fatal heart defect, the other is anencephalic (born without most of its brain). Should the heart of the Tanencephalic be...
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PRIVATE JUSTICE IN COLOMBIA A MURDEROUS DEMOCRACY CHAPTERS FROM A DIRTY WAR Newly revived hopes for peace in Central America are focused on the Arias plan and government-guerrilla negotiations....
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OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS THE FUTURE OF U.S.-SOVIET GOOD WILL It all depends on how you define and count these things, but according to my reckoning, the newly...
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OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy LOOKING FOR HONEST ABE WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TRUE-BLUE LEADERSHIP? There is nothing we need more in these days of 1988 than a national resolve to recover the...
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THE DEATH PENALTY DINOSAUR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HEADS FOR EXTINCTION RICHARD C. DIETER The festive lights of the new Baltimore loom into view as 1-95 rounds the final curve before descending into...
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MOLDING A CRY & A SONG AMERICAN PRISONERS AS POETS Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death . . . Czeslaw...
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STAGE TALES & DRAGONS 'INTO THE WOODS' & 'NIXON IN CHINA' Once upon a time there was a wizard named Bruno Bettelheim who ventured into the dark interior of popular fairy tales in a conscious...
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SCREEN GO EAST, YOUNG MAN 'EMPIRE OF THE SUN' Steven Spielberg, who directed and co-produced Empire of the Sun, doesn't want to grow up. In some artists, this refusal can be a fruitful source of...
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BOOKS MAKING PUBLIC POLICY A HOPEFUL VIEW OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Steven Kelman Basic Books, $19.95, 332 pp. John Brandl Choices of the political art With little fanfare a new approach to the...
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AMBIVALENCE & CONSENSUS NEW EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY THE CHALLENGE FOR AMERICAN CATHOLICISM Dennis P. McCann Sheed & Ward, $8.95, 191 pp. Richard P. McBrien This book was originally intended as...
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IN BRIEF Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, S.J. Edited by Timothy P. Fallon, S.J. and Philip Boo Riley. SUNY Press, 395 pp. This is a collection of three keynote addresses...
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