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 Vol. 124 Issue 003 (February 14 1997)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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follows, A review draws fire; a counterattack
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Sexuality & selfhood In his letter published in the January 17 issue, Michon Matthiesen uses the phrase "sacramentalize your isolation." It is rich with...
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Editorials
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get?, How dotty can we
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How dotty can we get? Social Security works. Most retired Americans possess significantly greater material resources than did their parents or grandparents. Social Security, private pensions,...
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The Crusoe fallacy A former state senator from Rhode Island asks whether we are all islands unto ourselves
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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EVICTED! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune we can cope with. But the entropy-not to mention the lack of heat and the broken elevator-engulfing us here at 15 Dutch Street is very much...
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It ain't broken
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Buell, John
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John Buell If AIN'T BROKE Social Security really works Perhaps no noun in our political vocabulary is more misused than the term "crisis." Crisis language is used to suggest that institutions are...
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Hungry together Taking inspiration and instruction from Islam, a Catholic extols the virtues and the hardships of Lenten fasting
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Repohl, Roger F.
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Roger F. Repohl HUNGRY TOGETHER Fasting Ramadan style For the last two years during Lent, I have been practicing a loose version of the Islamic fast. I decided on this method of fasting after...
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FEMINISM & THE FAMILY Will the real needs of contemporary women, men, and families bring about a new feminism and a renewed sense of political engagement? It had better
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GLENDON, MARY ANN
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FEMINISM & THE FAMILY An indissoluble marriage Mary Ann Glendon In September 1995,1 had the honor of heading the Vatican delegation to the United Nations' Fourth Conference on Women held in...
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South Slopes in Winter: The Rockies, after Years
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Partridge, Dixie
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Dixie Partridge South Slopes in Winter: The Rockies, after Years From this distance you need only accept with the shamefaced moon the silvered slums of white birch and aspen, emptied and...
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Some Mother's Son
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva CHARACTER AMID CHAOS 'Some Mother's Son' Home Mother's Son, the latest movie about the everlasting Irish troubles, manages a singular feat of equipoise. It is both angry and human,...
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The video messiah Our correspondent enrolls in ferry Falwell's Institute of Biblical Studies, and in so doing gives a new air of sanctity to the term "couch potato."
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Spalding, John D.
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MEDIA John D. Spalding THE VIDEO MESSIAH Salvation at the touch of the remote While TV shopping for ab rollers, psychic phone pals, baldness cures, and diets guaranteed to make me lose thirty...
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Dead Season
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Berlow, Alan; Magadia, Jose
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Where even the ghosts keep silent Dead Season A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros Alan Berlow Pantheon, $25, 320 pp. Jose Magadia When a work of nonfiction reads...
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Epitaph for American Labor
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Green, Max; Higgins, George G.
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UNION BUSTING Epitaph for American Labor How Union Leaders Lost Touch with America Max Green The American Enterprise Institute Press. $24.95, 206 pp. George G. Higgins I have been waiting a...
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Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice
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McCollester, Charles J.; Jordan, Patrick
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Laborer in the vineyard Fighter with a Heart Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest Edited by Charles J. McCollester University of Pittsburgh Press, $19.95, paper, 242...
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Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200-1336
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Bynum, Caroline Walker; Douglas, Mary
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THE BODY AS TEXT Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200-1336 Caroline Walker Bynum Columbia University Press, $17.50,368 pp. Nary Douglas This book by a distinguished medievalist...
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Green eggs & ham & God
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Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
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GREEN EGGS & HAN & GOD Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill Not long ago I stayed a week-end at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the better part of my time there spent praying quietly with the monks in their grand,...
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Commonweal Associates
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kiss, The honor roll of those who cover our debts, pay the rent, and feed our children. Hug, hug, ki
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Our 72nd Year In 1996 the Associates again provided essential assistance to ensure Commonweal's continued publication. And when the magazine suffered substantial losses from two break-ins into our...
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Vol. 124 Issue 004 (February 28 1997)
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