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IssueVol. 123 Issue 011 (June 1 1996)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
GRAHAM, REV. WILLIAM C.; MANISCALCO, MSGR. FRANCIS J.; FARENELL, MIKE; SAYDAH, CHARLES; DALPIAZ, GINO; McBRIEN, REV. RICHARD P.; Talbot, William; SHINNERS, JOHN
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors I was wrong, so thanks As a nonpracticing Duluthian currently alive in East Harlem, I was delighted to read Ann O'Brien Treacy's "Time Stops" [The Last Word, April...
Paid articleEditorial Gaseous fumes
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Gaseous fumes The jockeying in Washington over lowering the 1993 surtax on transportation fuel has been a high-octane exercise in election-year politics. If there had been a tax on rhetoric, the...
Paid articleA typology of converts Beware of converts It matters whether they're coming or going Believe me, it takes one to know one
Garvey, John
JOHN GARVEY A TYPOLOGY OF CONVERTS Beware of those who are running away When I joined the Orthodox church twelve years ago I made a decision that I had been circling for twenty-one years. It...
Paid articleBy the sweat of kids' brows Watch where you shop Children at risk
McCarthy, Abigail
ABIGAIL MCCARTHY BY THE SWEAT OF KIDS' BROWS Using market power to end child labor You will read this in the week of the "Stand for Children" demonstration here in Wash- ington. It seems an...
Paid articleA minimal gesture Truth be told, raising the minimum wage will have a minimum impact on the working poor We must look elsewhere for genuine economic progress
Kelly, Kevin
Kevin Kelly A MINIMAL GESTURE The politics of wage hikes Ho read the news recently, you'd have thought raising the minimum wage was the most important economic issue facing the country. Official...
Paid articleMadness in Monrovia The civil war in Liberia has roots in the settlement of freed American slaves
Joyce, James F
James F. Joyce MADNESS IN MONROVIA What led to the Liberian bloodbath Liberia exploded again in April. For over a century, Liberia had been heralded as the only democracy in Africa, but as...
Paid articleMORE THAN A ROOF Moving people from public housing to self-sufficiency requires a subtle mix of incentives and opportunities
Marciniak, Ed
MORE THAN A ROOF Promising moves in public housing Ed Marciniak Not long ago, I attended a national housing con-ference where a featured panelist was a woman introduced as a longtime resident of...
Paid articleWriting Lessons
Renz, Christopher J
Christopher J. Renz Writing Lessons (III) "As for me, I am already poured out as a libation...." The Second Letter of Paul to Timothy It is noon. I stop to watch steam rise up from clay bricks...
Paid articleBOB DOLE OH 'SOCIALISM' The majority leader takes careful aim, fires, and misses the point
Dreier, Peter
BOB DOLE ON 'SOCIALISM' It's all right for the rich Peter Dreier Speaking before the National Association of Realtors on April 29, Senator Bob Dole (R-Kans.) labeled public housing "one of the...
Paid articlePHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE Ten questions you never thought youd have to answer
Shannon, Thomas A
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE Ten questions Thomas A. Shannon Bicoastal decisions of federal circuit courts have upheld the practice of physician-assisted sui-cide (PAS). Thus the United States has...
Paid articleJane Eyre Zeffirelli gives us a muted Jane and a defanged Rochester
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva ME ROCHESTER, YOU Zeffirelli's 'Jane Eyre The latest screen version of Jane Eyre, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, has pace, sufficient atmosphere, and generally good acting....
Paid articleBrain Fever by Valerie Sayers
McDermott, Alice
BOOKS Crazed protagonist deranges novel Brain Fever Valerie Sayers Doubleday, $23.95,308 pp. Alice McDermott The problem at the heart of this witty, energetic fifth novel by the author of Due...
Paid articleChanging Witness by Michael Warner Are the Catholic bishops manipulated by leftists and pacifists? The author evidently thinks so
Byrnes, Timothy A
MISSING THE FOREST Changing Witness Catholic Bishops and Public Policy, 1917-94 Michael Warner Ethics and Public Policy Center and Wm. B, Eerdmans Publishing Company, $20,202 pp. Timothy A....
Paid articleEastern Christian Worlds by Mahmoud Zibawi
Weakland, Rembert G
THE ECUMENISM OF BEAUTY Eastern Christian Worlds Mahmound Zibawi Translated by Madeleine Beaumont The Liturgical Press, $99,95, 272 pp, Rembert G. Weakland Dust as there is a renewed interest...
Paid articleThe Electronic Republic by Lawrence Grossman What Comes Next by James P Pinkerton
McCarraher, Eugene
ELITIST CYBERBABBLE The Electronic Republic Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age Lawrence Grossman Viking, $2435,290 pp. What Comes Next The End oi Big Government and the New Paradigm...
Paid articleReligion booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S
RELIGION BOOKNOTES On New Year's Day in 1994 the Zapatistas mounted an armed rebellion in the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Their grievances derived from a long history of federal neglect; the...
Paid articleYou become what you wear
Carlin, Kathleen
THE LAST WORD YOU BECOME WHAT YOU WEAR Kathleen Carlin A standard criticism of sociological research projects is that they go to great lengths to prove what most people with common sense already...
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