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 Vol. 121 Issue 007 (April 8 1994)
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Vol. 121 Issue 008 (April 22 1994)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Almost all is forgiven Buy Shore. N.Y. To the Editors: Here is the renewal check I swore I'd never send. Frank McConnell has tried me nearly beyond endurance, and there have...
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Editorial
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Why? In speaking on "A Theology of Illness," John Carmody observes that "illness is.. .something extraordinary, because illness strips human existence to the bone." It is, he says, "as much...
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Power to the patients
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Higgins, Thomas
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POWER TO THE PATIENTS WHY ALLIANCES MATTER resident Bill Clinton's Health Security Act has had its first congressional committee vote, and already health alliances, a key feature of the...
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Sean's gift
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Hopkins, Robert
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:5 REPORT FROM A PARISH SEAN'S GIFT A COMMUNITY AWAKENS Everyone in our parish knew Sean. They remember when he, my wife, and 1 joined the church in 1980. It was Sean who led us to this...
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Why I changed my mind
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Callahan, Sidney
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WHY I CHANGED NY MIND THINKING ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE ast month I came out of the closet and confessed at an evening lecture that I believed that homosexuals should be allowed to marry. The...
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Neighbors need neighbors
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McCloskey, Liz Leibold
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OF SEVERAL WINDS Liz Leibold McCloskey NEIGHBORS NEED NEIGHBORS AND VICE VERSA Walking home from the park one day with Brian, my son, and his cousins, Kate and Jack, I had a troubling...
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A wonderful book
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL WIMPS John Garvey A WONDERFUL BOOK DAN CALLAHAN ON DEATH ¦ know Daniel Callahan but until I read The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality (Simon & Schuster, 1993)1 had...
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Signs & wonders
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Garvey, John
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Signs & wonders he Gospel accounts of Jesus' miracles make it clear that there is something almost ironic about them: the blind see, the paralytics walkâbut what really matters (and what looks...
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The other victims of priest pedophilia
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Dreese, John J.
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THE OTHER VICTIMS OF PRIEST PEDOPHILIA AN INHERITANCE SQUANDERED JOHN J. DREESE he constant reporting by the media of the sexual abuse of children and adolescents by priests has become a kind...
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Poetry
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Applebaum, David
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14 David Appelbaum The Earthworm Jar The basement door opens & earth spills out, fat blood-red earthworms running like skinned snakes out of a garbage hamper. We live over their house. How...
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Shine on, Harvey Bloom
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Kalfus, Ken
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SHINE ON, HARVEY BLOOM WHY ALLAN SHERMAN MADE US LAUGH KEN KALFUS here was once a time in American life when being Jewish was, in itself, a funny thing. A Jewish name was enough to make its...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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DRABNESS INTO POETRY 'GRAPE' & 'ANGIE' ¦ nearly bypassed What's Eating Gilbert Grape? because I had read somewhere a plot summary that made me cringe. Something about a boy trapped in...
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Poetry
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Cowles, Christopher
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POEMS Christopher Cowles Farewell beyond Mortality When I set out to rest On death's sweet wing I saw all things as beautiful As they must ever be From childhood's gladness til my waiting...
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Morality and Politics in Modern Europe/Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life, by Michael Oakeshott
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McCabe, David
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A philosopher on the limits of philosophy ome writers we read because we want to know what to think. Unsure of ourselves, faced with confusing issues, we try on other people's arguments...
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Extra Innings, Doris Grumbach
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Marget, Madeline
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PLAY ON! EXTRA INNINGS A Memoir Doris Grumbach W.W. Norton & Company. $22, 298 pp. Madeline Margel In her previous memoir (Coming into the End Zone, reviewed in Commonweal December...
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The Partial Constitution, Cass R. Sunstein
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Gaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
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NEUTRALITY ISN'T NEUTRAL THE PARTIAL CONSTITUTION Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University Press, $35.414 pp. Edward MeOlynn Gaflney, Jr. It is ironic that there is greater stir among the Russian...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES ¦ received the galleys of the Oxford Companion to the Bible a month or so before a new semester was to begin. Rather than browse through it ad libitum, which is my usual...
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This park is central
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Gallagher, Mary Campbell
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THE LAST WORD This park is central MARY CAMPBELL GALLAGHER ollowing the path of a woozy mastodon of old, I cross Central Park from upper east to upper west each morning, and from upper west...
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