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 Vol. 121 Issue 009 (May 6 1994)
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Vol. 121 Issue 010 (May 20 1994)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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Population pressure Agawam, Mass. To the Editors. The times are definitely changing when both Commonweal and Mother Teresa acknowledge the legitimacy of managing population growth In its...
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Editorial
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3 A shining moment T he revolution that ended forty-five years of apartheid in South Africa last month—complete with universal suffrage, new flag and national anthem ("Nkosi Sikelel lAfnka,"...
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How not to punish China
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Finn, James
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HUMAN RIGHTS & TRADE HOW NOT TO PUNISH CHINA THE FAXES OF FREEDOM If foreign policies had a death wish, the U S. policy on China enunciated last May could be said to have fulfilled it. It...
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The USCC & the rebbe
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Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers
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CHURCH & STATE & SCHOOLS THE USCC & THE REBBE TWISTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT David Tracy, in Plurality and Ambiguity (Harper & Row, 1985), eloquently articulates his hope for the healing...
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Subsidies for abortion?
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Nadler, Jerrold; Hoyt, Robert G
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AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS SUBSIDIES FOR ABORTION? CONGRESSMAN VS. CONSTITUENT Dear Mr. Hoyt: Thank you for informing me of your opposition to the inclusion of abortion in the president's...
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Breaking the rules
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey BREAKING THE RULES AND STARVING THE SPIRIT It is hard to generalize easily about the work that faces a parish priest, but it is plain that there are a lot of...
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Growing gray with grace
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Callahan, Sidney
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OF SEVERAL HINDS Sidney Callghan GROWING GRAY WITH GRACE THE BEST IS YET TO BE A happy birthday visit with my eighty-one year-old mother in her retirement home was an occasion for...
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Sale of the century
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Hartung, William D
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SALE OF THE CENTURY BILL CLINTON'S AMAZING ARMS BAZAAR WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Bill Clinton didn't say much about foreign policy dunng the 1992 election campaign, but he did promise to change one...
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What the imagination knows
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Wheeler, Edward T
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WHAT THE IMAGINATION KNOWS PAUL THEROUX'S SEARCH FOR THE SECOND SELF EDWARD T. WHEELER At the close of his best-selling travel book, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Paul Theroux reflects...
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Poetry
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Hlavsa, Virginia V
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Virginia V. Hlavsa Connecting the Dots Finches, gold, dot the air, the trees. Teaming, they hop, light bulb over light bulb ap the willow's weeping leads. Disguised, they have been there all...
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN WHAT'S ENTERTAINMENT? THE PAPER' & 'PROXY' T he Paper zips along but how could it not? Ron Howard's movie, scnpted by Stephen and David Koepp, is not only a triumph of...
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Telling the whole story
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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RAYMOND E. BROWN'S ACHIEVEMENT Telling the whole story LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON T he publication shortly before Easter of this massive study of Our Lord's Passion and death was timely...
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The Wages of Guilt Ian Buruma
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Beverly, Elizabeth
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BOOKS A tale of two peoples Several years ago, Ian Buruma, a Dutch-born journalist and essayist living in England, with well-established ties to Japan, decided to learn more about...
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The Faith of a Physicist, by John Polking-horn/Nature, Reality, and the Sacred, Langdon Gilkey
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Raymo, Chet
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GOD AS TOP QUARK? THE FAITH OF A PHYSICIST Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker John Polkinghorne Princeton University Press, $24 95, 205 pp NATURE. REALITY, AND THE SACRED The Nexus of Science...
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Collected Stories, Grace Paley
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Dufresne, Bethe
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STORIES THAT ARE POEMS COLLECTED STORIES Grace Paley Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27 50, 386 pp Belhe Duf resne Grace Paley tells us in the introduction to this shortstory collection that...
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The Revenge of God, Gilles Kepel
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Hunt, Michael J
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SECULARISM UNDER SIEGE THE REVENGE OF GOD The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern World Gilles Kepel The Pennsylvania State University Press, $14 95, 215 pp Michael...
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The Philosopher and the Provocateur, Bernard Doenng
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Simpson, William A
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A VERY ODD COUPLE THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PROVOCATEUR The Correspondence of Jacques Mantain and Saul Almsky Edited by Bernard Doering University of Notre Dame Press, $25 95, 118pp William A....
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A Dream of Peace, collected by UNICEF
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Ellsberg, Peggy
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EVERYBODY MUST HELP THEM I DREAM OF PEACE Images of War by Children of Former Yugoslavia Preface by Maurice Sendak; drawings collected by UNICEF HarperCollins, $12 95, 76 pp Peggy...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES T he relationship of Chnstian belief to the classical tradition of Greece and Rome has been the subject of intense scholarly interest since at least the time of Adolf...
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and just down the hall
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Schultz, Valerie
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THE LAST WORD ...and just down the hall VALERIE SCHULTZ T o reach the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, they tell me at Information, go to the fourth floor, to Maternity, but then turn...
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