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Vol. 123 Issue 021 (December 6 1996)
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Vol. 123 Issue 022 (December 20 1996)
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Correspondence
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D. Callahan got it right I liked David Callahan's assessment [October 25] of "why this election matters." While I do not share all of President Bill Clinton's views (especially those on capital...
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Editorial
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Risky business A time of repentance followed by a time of joy. A season of darkness followed by a season of light. Thus Christians, in the shortest days and darkest season of the year, await...
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Called to be saints
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Garvey, John
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JOHN GARVEY CALLED TO BE SAINTS Our salvation is at hand People who have rejected religion commonly offer one of two reasons. The first is a question: How can you believe in a good God when you...
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Is family leave enough?
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Buell, John
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John Buell IS FAMILY LEAVE ENOUGH? Not by a long shot In the weeks after President Bill Clinton's re-elec-tion, we have once again heard that American citizens always vote their pocketbooks. To...
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Labor's growing pains
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Candaele, Kelly; Dreier, Peter
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Kelly Candaele & Peter Dreier LABOR'S GROWING PAINS Lots of work to be done The conventional wisdom has it that the elections last month gave liberals few reasons to cheer. Newt Gingrich remains...
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This Burning
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Partridge, Dixie
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Dixie Partridge This Burning Brnss light of a winter sun hits you through glass, fades like candle-shaped sound from retreating bugles. Sky through cirrus and birch limbs dissolves apricot to...
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The Benevolence of Babies
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Callahan, Sidney
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THE BEHEVOLENCE OF BABIES A metaphysics of diapers Sidney Callahan Babies invite worship from their parents, grandparents, fond friends, and strangers passing on the street. Baby devotion may be...
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Twelfth Night The English Patient
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva ROMANCE OLD & NEW 'Twelfth Night' & 'English Patient' Humankind cannot bear very much reality, wrote T. S. Eliot. Well, neither can Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which thrives on...
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Poor Richard's Principle
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Wuthnow, Robert
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Getting & spending Poor Richard's Principle Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money Robert Wuthnow Princeton University Press, $24.95,426...
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The Domestication of Transcendence
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Placher, William C.
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EXPLAINING GOD AWAY The Domestication of Transcendence How Modern Thinking about God Went Wrong William C. Placher Westminster John Knox Press, $20, 222 pp. Luke Timothy Johnson Few would want...
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories
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Cox, Michael
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BOO-HOO The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories Michael Cox, Editor Oxford University Press, $25,425 pp. Celia Wren The twentieth century doesn't seem to have done much for the ghost...
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Iona Mountain House No Country for Old Men
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Kleinbard, David
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Poetry David Kleinbard Iona Here where the sun sets past midnight Dawn was at one, the ball rolled so fast You could never catch up and were always In danger of falling off. A murderous priest...
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Sands of the Well
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Levertov, Denise
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CONSECRATING THE ORDINARY Sands of the Well Denise Levertov New Dinrlhrn-. $20. 144 pp. Harold Isbell A new collection of poems by Denise Levertov is always good news. She writes finely honed,...
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'You will die this week'
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Gaynor, Ellen
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'YOU WILL DIE THIS WEEK' Ellen Gaynor I had the great privilege this past year of being Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's oncolo- gist. I found early on that I was strongly drawn to him. Why? Perhaps it...
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Index to Volume CXXIII
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Index to Volume CXXIII January 12,1996, to December 20,1996 Articles and Poetry Alma, Nasira...................A Lamb in Lion Time: a poem Anderson, Chris.......................Life & death at a...
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