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IssueVol. 123 Issue 007 (April 5 1996)
IssueVol. 123 Issue 008 (April 19 1996)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
LUKASZEWSKI, LEON; TREACY, J. F.; GLEASON, PHILIP; BAILEY, (MSGR.) JOSEPH G.; Wilken, Robert L.; CONROY, CHRISTOPHER A.; McGILL, DANIEL J.; PALAGI, PATRICIA; BURKHART, MARIAN; Nugent, Robert
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Leon's corner Couple of mild malapropisms in your editorial on Buchanan ("Bully in the Pulpit/' March 8): 'To say that Buchanan is a throwback is to belabor the...
Paid articleEditorial Clinton's choice
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Clinton's choice President Bill Clinton had a chance to practice what he preaches on abortion but is passing it up. Early in his term, Clinton said that he thought abortions should be safe, legal,...
Paid articleEt cetera To the highest bidder
ET CETERA TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER Recent news from the Midwest led us to check our list of subscribers to see how many of them live in the diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, whose Ordinary recently told...
Paid articleObservation Even in Lincoln, doubtful laws don't apply
Coriden, James A
OBSERVATION EVEN IN LINCOLN, DOUBTFUL LAWS DON'T APPLY On March 19,the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, issued a law proclaiming that all Catholics in his...
Paid articleWhy Clinton will lose April polls won't blossom into November votes
Carlin, David R Jr.
DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. WHY CLINTON WILL LOSE (Unless he's very lucky) Dn the world of political journalism, one of the strangest items of conventional wisdom floating around for the past few months...
Paid articleAre all 'rats' equal? Does excluding women from the Virginia Military Institute violate the Constitution? It's a close call
Gaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. ARE ALL 'RATS' EQUAL? The Supreme Court looks at VMI Dn 1954 the Supreme Court did the nation a great favor when, in Brown v. Board of Education, it repudiated racial...
Paid articleMajor blunder John Major's demand that elections precede all-party peace talks in Northern Ireland is put in perspective
O'Shean, Seamus
Seamus O'Shean MAJOR BLUNDER Votes & violence in Ireland Hhe Provisional Irish Republican Army ended its cease-fire on February 9 by setting off a bomb at London's Canary Wharf that killed two...
Paid articleTHE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Republicans chose a dead-safe candidate in Robert Dole Can he make it to the finish line?
McWilliams, Wilson Carey
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Dole, like Clinton, out of the loop Wilson Carey N c W i 11 i a m s Hfter an anxious month or two, the Republican party is right where most of its leaders wanted it to be:...
Paid articleTHE POET WHO FELL OFF THE MAP From Patmos, with the utmost
Uebbing, James
THE POET WHO FELL OFF THE NAP Robert Lax on the island of Patmos James Uebbing Headers of Commonweal and Jubilee may remember the work of Robert Lax, but he is not generally known in the United...
Paid articleA Journey with Robert Lax Commonweal's designer recalls meeting Robert Lax and publishing his poetry
Antonucci, Emil
A Journey with Robert Lax It was the early 1950s. I was a couple of years out of art school and still struggling to get established as an artist and graphic designer. Deeply influenced by the...
Paid articleRichard III / Othello On the screen, Shakespeare gets scrambled and shrunken
Alleva, Richard
Richard Alleva SLICED & DICED 'Richard III'&'Othello' There is a subgenre of science-fiction called "alternative universes," exemplified by such novels as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High...
Paid articleThe Lost City by Alan Ehrenhalt
McGreevy, John T
BOOKS Why Chicago worked The Lost City Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s Alan Ehrenhalt Basic Books, $24,310 pp. John T. McGreevy Next time a...
Paid articleAll God'S Children by Fox Butterfield
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
DELIVER US FROM EVIL All God's Children The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence Fox Butterfietd Alfred A. Knopf, $27.50,389 pp. Jean Bcthhc Elshtain Willie Bosket, the...
Paid articleLewis Carroll by Morton N Cohen
Davis, Robert Murray
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Lewis carrol A Biography Morton N. Cohen Alfred A.Knopf,$35,577 pp Robert Murray Pavls Hhis book deals less with the works of the pseudonymous Lewis Carroll than with his...
Paid articleJihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R Barber
Sigmund, Paul E
WORLDS AT WAR Jihad vs. McWorld Benjamin R. Barber Times Books, $25,381 pp. Paul E. Sigmund Hhe jarring title notwithstanding, this is a significant book. It juxtaposes two countervailing...
Paid articleSouth and Meso-American Native Spirituality edited by Gary H Gossen
Mosio, Jacqueline Bell
AHARINDIAN COSMOLOGIES South and Heso-American Native Spirituality From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation Edited by Gary H. Gossen in collaboration with...
Paid articleTime stops A time-honored tradition is renewed in Holy Innocents Chapel in Duluth
Treacy, Ann O'Brien
'THE LAST WORD TIME STOPS Amw O'Brien Treacy Eut for a chance attendance at Mass on a first Saturday of the month, I might never have signed up for perpetual adoration. In small ways, it has...
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