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 Vol. 123 Issue 021 (December 6 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Life in all seasons Thank you for a profoundly thoughtful essay by Rand Richards Cooper [October 25] on the ultimate implications of assisted suicide. He reminds us...
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Editorial
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Joseph Bernardin As Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's casket was carried from Holy Name Cathedral the haunting Taize chant, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom," rose seemingly unprompted...
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Democracy in decline
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE Freedom exalted, self-rule diminished We have all heard by now that voter turnout in the 1996 presidential election was 49 percent of those...
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What we voted for
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McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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Wilson Carey McWilliams WHAT WE VOTED FOR Ambivalence, anxiety, & gridlock In 1996, most voters didn't like the Congress or trust the president, but they reelected both. Ambivalence is the name of...
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Pulpit politicking
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Feuerherd, Peter
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Peter Feuerherd PULPIT POLITICKING Butt out, Father The 1996 election campaign was almost universally derided as a political season devoid of passion. But at least one campaign generated intense...
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HOW THE VATICAN WORKS
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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HOW THE VATICAN WORKS An interview with Thomas J. Reese Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Inside the Vatican (Harvard University Press) by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., was published December 1. Reese, a...
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Inside the Vatican
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Reese, Thomas J.
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ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE Inside the Vatican Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Harvard University Press, $24.95,352 pp. Daniel F. Hoye Tom Reese is at it again. His third take on the ecclesiastical world from...
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Looking for Richard Romeo & Juliet
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva THE BARD IN AMERICA 'Looking for Richard' & 'Romeo' Having performed Richard III on and off between movie assignments for the last two decades, Al Pacino decided to make...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Lodge, David
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Critics' choices for Christmas David Lodge David Lodge's most recent novel is Therapy, published by Viking and Penguin. A new book of essays, The Practice of Writing, will be published by Viking...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Norris, Kathleen
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Kathleen Morris Kathleen Norris's most recent book is Cloister Walk (Riverhead). She lives in Lemmon, South Dakota. In our cerebral and ideological age, in which even churches seem in danger of...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Schwartz, Jack
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Jack Schwartz Jack Schwartz is the retired book editor of Newsday. Mysteries are perhaps the most seductive literary genre because they appeal to the detective in us, the natural itch to solve a...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Sayers, Valerie
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Valerie Sayers Valerie Sayers is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her latest novel, Brain Fever (Doubleday), was published this year. The best novels I've read this year are...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Gonzalez, David
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David Gonzalez David Gonzalez writes the "About New York" column for the New York Times. 0few months ago I found myself engaged in that tentative pas de deux that occurs whenever the subject of...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Deen, Rosemary
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Rosemary Deen Rosemary Deen, poetry editor for Commonweal, recently retired from Queens College where she taught writing. What I like in serious fiction are the pleasures of good drama: richly...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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Bernard Bergonzi Bernard Bergonzi, recently retired from the University of Warwick, writes from England. One of the books I most enjoyed in the past year is Sir Frank Kermode's Not Entitled: A...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Raymo, Chet
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Chet Raymo Chet Raymo teaches at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts, and writes a science column for the Boston Globe. In recent years we have enjoyed a renaissance of writ-ing by...
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A little cello music
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Schultz, Valerie
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A LITTLE CELLO MUSIC Valerie Schultz My husband is taking cello lessons. He practices a scale, up and down, and the sound swells the house. It is not yet melodious-more like a mama grizzly in...
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Vol. 123 Issue 022 (December 20 1996)
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