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 Vol. 124 Issue 019 (November 7 1997)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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To the Editors God isn't Santa Claus Thank you for publishing John Gar-vey's excellent column on Judgment Day [October 10]. It is exactly for such articles that I, though not a Catholic and on a...
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Editorial
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Getting & spending Haws governing political campaign financing can appear as abstruse as Levitical dietary restrictions. The distinctions between "hard" and "soft" money, "candidate advocacy" and...
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Notebook
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NOTEBOOK Margaret O'Brien Steinfels I KNEW ANGELA Did Frank McCourt? Distance from our families often leads us to make friends, neighbors, and coworkers, into "fictive kin"- honorary sisters and...
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One of life's necessities
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Garvey, John
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JOHN GARVEY ONE OF LIFE'S NECESSITIES A bookstore with personality When I was a lonely, strange adolescent (is there any other kind?), a few things saved me. One was the fiction of Sherwood...
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Beyond the handshake
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Lennon, Brian
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Brian Lennon Grasping for peace in Ulster All the world now knows that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has shaken the hand of Gerry Adams, the very visible head of Sinn Fein, the political wing...
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Burying the dead
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HUCK, GABE
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Gabe Huck BURYING THE DEAD How it's done in Chicago Joseph Bernardin was waked and buried in Chicago a year ago this month with the funeral rites of the Roman Catholic church. This...
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BIGGER THAN WE THINK
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Winans, Molly
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BIGGER THAN WE THINK The world revealed in Charles Baxter's fiction Molly Winans Jeanne Palmer, mother of Wyatt, the protagonist of Charles Baxter's 1993 novel, Shadow Play, is what most people...
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Law
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Murawski, Elisabeth
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Elisabeth Murawski Law I grow small. Against the heavens' yardstick I have no hands. Now I am smaller than the chair, no more than a mouse beginning to fear the dense quiet. 1 am eaten by the...
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Goliath swallows Leviathan
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McConnell, Frank
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Frank McConnell GOLIATH SWALLOWS LEVIATHAN Conglomerates and the Media Millennial fever is upon us, and it's pandemic. Never mind that Clio, the Muse of history, doesn't really pay much mind to...
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Underworld
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DeLillo, Don
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DeLillo's surrogate believers Paul Elie The reviewers of Don DeLillo's eleven novels have called him many things: a "systems novelist," the chief shaman of the "paranoid school of American...
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Jane Austen
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Nokes, David
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BITE YOUR TONGUE, JANE Jane Austen A Life David Nokes Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $35,578 pp. Suzanne Keen David Nokes sets out to debunk the "pictures of perfection" promulgated by Jane...
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Saints and Sinners
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Duffy, Eamon
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UPON THESE ROCKS Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes Eamon Duffy Yale University Press, $30,336 pp. Robert Louis Wilken In the spring of 1996, when Umberto Bossi's Northern League began...
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All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education
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O'Brien, George Dennis
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THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education George Dennis O'Brien The University of Chicago Press, $19.95, 235pp. Francis Oakley This lively, engaging and...
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The Mad Dog
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Böll, Heinrich
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ROMANTIC FROM THE START The Mad Dog Stories Heinrich Boll, translated by Breon Mitchell St.Martin's Press, $19.95, 176 pp. Joseph Hynes In 1985, the year of his death, Heinrich Boll completed...
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Canaan
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Hill, Geoffrey
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THE POET'S DUTY OF OPACITY Canaan Geoffrey Hill Houghton Mofflin, $22, 76 pp. David Yezzi In Canaan, the British poet Geoffrey Hill returns with characteristic sobriety to a number of perennial...
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The New Majority
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Greenberg, Stanley B.; Skocpol, Theda
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A PARTY NEEDS IDEAS The New Majority Toward a Popular Progressive Politics edited by Stanley B. Greenberg and Theda Skocpol Yale University Press, $30, 331 pp. Alan Wolfe Just three years ago,...
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The Whole Shebang
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Ferris, Timothy
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STAR TREK The Whole Shebang A State of the Universe(s) Report Timothy Ferris Simon ami Schuster, $25,393pp. Nancy M. Haegel Timothy Ferris has reason to celebrate. A former journalism...
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The End of Art
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Danto, Arthur
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POSTMODERN IS OLD HAT The End of Art Arthur Danto Princeton University Press $24.95, 239 pp. David Castronovo This book about judging art in the postmodern era is lucidly written and tightly...
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
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Sugrue, Thomas
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WHY DETROIT FELL APART The Origins of the Urban Crisis Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit Thomas Sugrue Princeton University Press. $35,408 pp. John Buell Perhaps the most fashionable...
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In Brief
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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IN BRIEF Sacred Identity Exploring a Theology of the Person Jane Kopas Paulist,$11.95,217pp. Liberation Theolosies The Global Pursuit of Justice Alfred T. Hennelly, S.J. Twenty-Third...
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A college president's ABC's
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Rewak, William J.
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THE LAST WORD A COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S ABC'S William J. Rewak For some years I have been doing an informal study, by interviewing college students, faculty and staff, and other presidents, on the...
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Vol. 124 Issue 020 (November 21 1997)
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