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Vol. 123 Issue 017 (October 11 1996)
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Vol. 123 Issue 018 (October 25 1996)
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Correspondence On single-issue voting, the Common Ground and tradition. . .
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HAAS, JOHN H.; DOWNING, MARTHA; Talbot, William; O'Brien, Dennis; STOFFT, REV. KENNETH G.; JOYCE, WILLIAM J.; GLEASON, RICHARD; BRINGS, ALLEN
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Give Dems a chance Sidney Callahan admits that she might be wrong in her decision to vote for Bob Dole this November, and that she's willing to hear from others on the matter [correspondence,...
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Editorial Things left unsaid
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Things left unsaid As the saying goes, be careful what you pray for. For years observers of American politics have deplored its lack of civility. In their first televised debate earlier this month,...
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Death's fearful curse It's coming, so get ready
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Callahan, Sidney
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SIDNEY CALLAHAN DEATH'S FEARFUL CURSE Losing this life's dear pleasures Are you afraid to die?" my newly bereaved son asked. "If you believe we're all going to heaven, aren't you eager to get...
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Taking liberties
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Jr, David R Carlin
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DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. TAKING LIBERTIES Lawyers above the law The younger of my two sons has just begun law school. What a great country. For years I have been an underpaid columnist, yet within a...
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Whose story will win? Elections swing on the vision thing
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Callahan, David
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David Callahan WHOSE STORY WILL WIN? Why this election matters For decades, die-hard liberal Democrats have invoked Harry Truman's maxim that when voters have a choice between a real Republican...
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Getting it backwards It's jobs, stupid, not the deficit
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Buell, John
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John Buell GETTING IT BACKWARDS Why balancing the budget isn't enough In the midst of a fiercely contested presidential election, too little attention has been devoted to a pivotal conviction...
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THE DIGNITY OF HELPLESSNESS From the handicapped children of Nairobi to his grandmother's deathbed, our author discovers something precious in human frailty and even suffering
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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THE DIGNITY OF HELPLESSNESS What sort of society would euthanasia create? Rand Richards Cooper I'm looking for an argument with Jack Kevorkian; or rather, for one against him. Life for Kevorkian...
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Mortality
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Kacian, Jim
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Jim Kacian Mortality Here sounds the first alarm: The end is now begun. Henceforth I'm forced to face at last My own oblivion. The seed contains the germ: Not all the flesh will firm. There's no...
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'DON'T LOOK BACK' Lessons from a woman of the Plains
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Loxterkamp, David
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'DON'T LOOK BACK' A mother's farewell David Loxterkamp O bells ring for the ringing! The beginning and the end of the ringing! Ring, ring, ring, ring! William Carlos Williams, "The Catholic...
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Our Lady of Providence
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Oberg, Robert J
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Robert J. Oberg Our Lady of Providence -for Sister Betty At eighteen my body opened out on this long downhill, something at the bottom of me saying yes for the first time as 1 climbed the curved...
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Entertaining Angels Dorothy Day appears on our cover in a sculpture by Charles Wells In a film about her life, she's missing
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva DIMINISHING DOROTHY DAY 'Entertaining Angels' Whether she was in jail, simply walking in the street, buying groceries, asking directions, browsing in a bookstore, or waiting in...
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Genesis II J, E, and P are the missing characters in PBS's otherwise enlightening look at the Bible
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McConnell, Frank
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Frank McConnell 'GENESIS' II Redactor missing in action I have told you the good news about "Genesis: A Living Conversation" (Commonweal, October 11,1996). The bad news is a little more...
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The Oxford History of the Prison edited by Norval Morris and David J Rothman
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Morris, Charles R
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Go to jail* go directly to jail The Oxford History of the Prison The Practice of Punishment in Western Society Norval Morris and David J. Rothman, editors (Oxfard University Press, $39.95.489...
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Seeing and Believing by Margaret R Miles Sin and Censorship by Frank Walsh
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Garvey, Michael O
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PG-13 Sin and Censorship The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry Frank Walsh Yale University Press, $35,394 pp. Seeing and Believing Religion and Values in the Movies Margaret R....
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The Statement by Brian Moore
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Long, J V
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THE UNFORGIVEN The Statement Brian Moore Dutton. $22.95,250 pp. J. V. Long On the morning I finished Brian Moore's powerful new novel, The Statement, Paul Touvier's obituary appeared in the...
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Master Of Death by Michael Camille
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Gonzalez-Crussi, F
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THIS DYING FLESH Master of Death The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator Michael Camillc Yale University Press, $40,296ppp. F. Gonzalez-Crussi That "dolorous age," said Jules Michelet of...
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Haiti, History, and the Gods by Joan Dayan
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Hogan, John P
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STRANGER THAN FICTION Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan University of California Press, $35,339 pp. John P. Hogan Ho know Haiti is to be obsessed by the place. Joan Dayan, a...
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Not your momma
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Feuerherd, Peter
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NOT YOUR MOMMA Peter Feuerherd Saturday, September 21, Sdawns gloriously in New York, the first day of autumn, when the hours of light and darkness are in perfect balance. But today I am to defy...
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