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IssueVol. 124 Issue 005 (March 14 1997)
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Paid articleCorrespondence Commonweal's quest for a home and cheaper paper; sanctions in Iraq; Islam and patriarchy; feminism explored anew
FEIT, CHUCK; AUDETTE, GENE; MAHONEY, JOHN F.; BEEZAT, ROBERT; ESPOSITO, JOHN L.; QUINN, MARY LOU; DELLMAN-ANDERSEN, CAROL; Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
(Continued from page 2) Islam & women The articles on Islam in the January 31 issue were interesting and informative. Though I know enough not to trust stereotypes of hysterical, chanting, terrorist...
Paid articleEditorial Cloning isn't sexy
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
EDITORIALS: Cloning isn't sexy From Scotland comes news that a team of fearless scientists has cloned a sheep. One might consider this development one worrisome step for sheep, but more likely it...
Paid articleThe mystery remains Scientists need not be tone deaf to the mystery of life It's time to think before we clone
Garvey, John
JOHN GARVEY THE MYSTERY REHA1NS What cloning can't reproduce Hears ago Gore Vidal said that he thought human beings had already been cloned. "Anyone who says 'Have a nice day' is a clone," he...
Paid articleRiordan & Hayden
Jr, John L Allen
John L. Allen, Jr. RIORDAN & HAYDEN Some call them Catholic The mayoral race in Los Angeles, to be decided on April 8, pits two well-known Irish Catholics against one another, Republican incumbent...
Paid articleA 'NECESSARY' OF MODERN LIFE? College has always been expensive and it is unlikely to get cheaper in the near future But only since the G I Bill has it come to be a "necessary" Can this go on?
O'Brien, Dennis
A 'NECESSARY' OF MODERN LIFE? A very expensive college education Dennis O'Brien Dn 1844, Middlebury College in Vermont sued one Lyman Chandler for nonpayment of tuition. The college lost. The...
Paid articleKids Get the Day off from School
Winters, Mary
Mary Winters Kids Get the Day off from School Through the canyons of the garment center march the twenty million. A ticker tape parade for the masses: rats. The king and queen with their...
Paid articleA VOCATION FOR CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION? Can Catholic colleges combine compassion for the poor with a disinterested search for the truth? They should
Pope, Stephen J
A vocation for Catholic higher education? Buition, room, and board for many Catholic-universities runs on average between $20,000 and $25,000 per year. The cost of tuition continues to rise faster...
Paid articleMAKING COLLEGES CATHOLIC Flash! Bishops and educators agree!
Gallin, Alice
MAKING COLLEGES CATHOLIC Bishops & academics reach common ground Alice Gallin Han the Catholic church in the United States find ways to bring persons of opposing viewpoints to "common ground"? On...
Paid articleHamlet Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet will flatten you in several different and not entirely unpleasant ways
Alleva, Richard
Richard Alleva A SIXTEEN-WHEELER Branagh's 'Hamlet' Have you ever been run over by a truck and enjoyed the experience? Well... have you seen Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet? Hamlet is a...
Paid articleThe Power to Harm by John Cornwell
Coles, Robert
Better living through chemistry? The Power to Harm Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial John Comwell Viking, $24.95,321 pp. Robert Coles We are intent, these days, on exploring the physical...
Paid articleThe Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George Marsden
Allen, Diogenes
CHRISTIANITY 101 The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship George Marsden Oxford University Press, $22,137 pp. Diogenes Allen It is instructive to compare George Marsden's book to Newman's...
Paid articleReading Jazz edited by Robert Gottlieb
McConnell, Frank
DIZZY WITH ECSTASY Reading Jazz A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism Edited by Robert Gottlieb Pantheon Books, $37.59,1J368 pp. Frank McConnell My all-time favorite Dumb...
Paid articleConsciousness and the Mind of God by Charles Taliaferro
Liddy, Richard M
OUR C-FIBERS ARE FIRING Consciousness and the Hind of God Charles Taliaferro Cambridge University Press, $55.95, 349 pp. Richard M. Llddy Strange as it may seem to most conscious people, many...
Paid articleThe Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
Bankston, Carl L III
A WISE INVESTMENT The Rise of Christianity A Sociologist Reconsiders History Rodney Stark Princeton University Press, $24.95,246 pp. Carl L. Bankston III At the end of the fourth century,...
Paid articleText & context
Shaw, Kurt
TEXf & COMTEXT Kurt Shaw according to the Bible, King Ahab and Queen Jezebel killed Naboth and stole his vineyard after the farmer had refused to sell the king his land (1 Kings 21). On the one...
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