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 Vol. 123 Issue 009 (May 3 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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MURPHY, PATRICK J.; McMENAMIN, ELIZABETH; Desmond, John F.; TURNER, JAMES; Egan, Robert J.; HOLLERICH, MICHAEL J.; EMERITUS, PROFESSOR; CONNELLY, TOM; Schilling, Timothy P.; SAVANT, JOHN J.
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors No to school vouchers Wrong, wrong, wrong! I am amazed that you have been seduced by voucher propaganda [editorial, April 5]. After all the rhetoric has died down,...
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Editorials Weeping women
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Weeping women As expected, President Bill Clinton vetoed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (see, "Clinton's Choice," Commonweal, April 19). He did so surrounded by women who had undergone the...
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Editorials Catholicism
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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CATHOLICISM The best thing about the recent episcopal criticism of Catholicism is that its author, the Reverend Richard P. McBrien, is so able to speak for himself. Who doubts that he will give as...
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Edmund S Muskie "President Jimmy Carter said that no man was more presidential, or more worthy of being president"
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY EDMUND S. MUSKIE Let us now praise honorable men When former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie died recently, a neighbor couple came to call on his wife...
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Radio vs the Internet
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Garvey, John
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JOHN GARVEY RADIO VS. THE INTERNET Only the Shadow knows Are you on the Internet? I was asked this twice in one day, first by a bishop and then by a priest. It made me wonder about the ways we...
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Nicaragua surprise
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Prevost, Gary
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Gary Prevost NICARAGUA SURPRISE Sandinistas split, Somoza party gains In early February, Pope John Paul visited Nicaragua for the second time, bringing renewed international attention to a nation...
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The state of Haiti
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Jordan, Patrick
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Patrick Jordan THE STATE OF HAITI Still at ground zero Strip to Haiti is unlike a thousand elsewhere. The small Caribbean country, the size of Massachusetts, is not only the poorest in the...
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ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY Having embraced every modern advantage, a woman looks back at what she has lost and what she has possibly gained
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King, Heather
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ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY Following my own unguided will Heather King Home mornings I wake stupefied with wonder that I have come of my own free will to the neighborhood in which I live. A complicated...
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A Family Thing Antonia's Line In one film, a stale plot, lively dialogue, great acting, and a stab at truth In the other, P C reigns
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva THE TRUE VS. THE CORRECT 'A Family Thing' & 'Antonia's Line' Touring the South in 1955, the writer Paul Goodman observed some white children coming out of school. Later, he noted...
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Chekhov'S Plays by Richard Gilman
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Wren, Celia
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A critic worthy of Chekhov Chekhov's Plays Richard Gilman Yale University Press, $30, 261 pp. Celia Wren Chekhov is known for his dictum that a gun hanging on a wall in the first act of a play...
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The Weight of the Yen by R Taggart Murphy
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Buell, John
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CAN JAPAN CONSUME MORE? The Weight of the Yen It Taggart Murphy John Buell Mainstream academics and journalists like to tell us that one of the few points on which all economists agree is the...
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Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
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Bankston, Carl L III
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CLASSY HISTORY Byzantium The Decline and Fall John Julius Norwich Alfred A Knopf, $35, 488 pp. Carl L. Bankston III In the days before social history and statistical "cliome-trics," the word...
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God Owes Us Nothing by Leszek Kolakowski
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O'Brien, Dennis
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY God Owes Us Nothing Leszek Kolakowski University of Chicago Press, $22.50, 238pp. Dennis O'Brien I suppose it was bound to happen. For the past three years, Commonweal has been...
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The Voice of the People by James S Fishkin
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Byrnes, Timothy A
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TUTORED OPINION The Voice of the People Public Opinion and Democracy James S. Fiskkin Yak University Press, $20,195 pp. Timothy A. Byrnes Would a flat tax help or harm the United States...
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Reinventing the American People Edited by Robert Royal
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Deneen, Patrick J
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'E PLURIBUS, PLURES' Reinventing the American People Unity and Diversity Today Edited by Robert Royal William & Eerdmans, $17, 304 pp. Patrick J. Deneen As I imagine it, one afternoon at lunch...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham I am not expert enough to say if Father McNamee's poetry is "good" in any formal sense. My own clumsy attempts at sonnet writing have always left me...
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Not a good bet
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Johnson, Bud
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THE LAST WORD NOT A GOOD BET Bud Johnson The parochial school I attended in Kentucky may have been the only one in the nation where kids made book in the fifth grade. Our indigenous junior...
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Vol. 123 Issue 010 (May 17 1996)
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