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Paid articleCorrespondence Ms Kissling takes umbrage
KISSLING, FRANCES; DISTEFANO, TONY; WOLBERT, JEROME; Godfrey, A. W.; O'Brien, Dennis; PICARD, MARIE
Claws exposed Commonweal, claws exposed and teeth bared, has taken its annual lazy and tiresome leap at Catholics for a Free Choice [editorial, March 14]. One wonders what values lead the editors...
Paid articleEditorial Religion, true & false
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Religion, true & false A lot of questionable and even silly things have been written about re- ligion and the nature of belief following the suicides of thirty-nine mem-bers of the Heaven's Gate...
Paid articleEt ceteras Hale-Bopp hits Manhattan; Further sightings; She wants to be a writer!
ET CETERAS HALE-BOPP HITS NAHHATTAN That Manhattanites hold their little island in considerable esteem is not a well-kept secret. But occasionally even New Yorkers are shocked into realizing that...
Paid articleArtful Juxtapositions
Garvey, John
JOHN GARYEY ARTFUL JUXTAPOSITIONS From billboards to Joseph Cornell The Port Washington train from Manhattan to Queens passes a squarish, tapered white chimney mounted at the center of a building...
Paid articleCan they just get along?
McCarthy, Abigail
Abigail McCarthy can they just get along? Congress goes for Hershey kisses Hast September ("A Civil Tongue," September 13, 1996), I wrote about proposals made by various members of Congress to...
Paid articleA church in Texas The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 should be upheld by the Court in Boerne v Flores
Gaffney, Edward McGlynn
Edward McGlynn Gaffney A CHURCH IN TEXAS Religious freedom before the Court May the government keep Catholics from attend- ing Mass? The answer is "yes" if the government in question is the Crown...
Paid articleLIMPING TOWARD CHINA Dealing with China requires a flexible policy that nevertheless has a clear-eyed vision of U S interests and values Unfortunately, the Clinton administration is all flexibility and no vision
Finn, James
LIMPING TOWARD CHINA Clinton's weak-kneed policy James Finn There have been a number of calls for a reassessment of U.S. policy toward China. Is a shift possible? Yes. Even as it is distracted by...
Paid articleCHINA'S CATHOLICS: DEVOUT & DIVIDED
Madsen, Richard
CHINA'S CATHOLICS: DEVOUT & DIVIDED Persecution nurtures defiance Richard Madse From the point of view of an American Catholic, the Chinese Catholic church has three astonishing characteristics:...
Paid articleHONG KONG & TAIWAN
Bartlett, Beatrice
HONG KONG & TAIWAN How China sees things Beatrice Bartlett More than twenty years ago, on my first trip to the China mainland, I visited a grade-school English class where children were...
Paid articleCrash An obscene little automotive romp
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva RECKLESS Cronenberg's 'Crash' The recent successful revival of the Star Wars trilogy reminds us that the current split in American moviemaking began in 1977 when the first...
Paid articlePBS's 'Before I Die' A 'seminar' on euthanasia makes for surprisingly informative TV
McConnell, Frank
Frank McConnell DEATH ON TRIAL PBS's 'Before I Die' Man has "invented death," wrote Yeats, and the poet was absolutely right: As the only animals who know that we will die, we are also the only...
Paid articleGoverning China by Kenneth Lieberthal The Legacy of Tianamen by James A R Miles
Clifford, Nicholas R
Figuring out who runs China Governing China From Revolution through Reform Kenneth Lieberthal The Legacy of Tiananmen China in Disarray James A. R. Miles Nicholas R. Clifford Kenneth...
Paid articleDisarmed and Dangerous by Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady
O'Brien, David
PHIL & DAN AT WAR Disarmed and Dangerous The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady David O'Brien On February 12,1997, at 4:30 in the morning, Philip...
Paid articleFrance under the Germans by Philippe Burrin, translated by Janet Lloyd
Englund, Steven
A NATION OF PATRIOTS France under the Germans Collaboration and Compromise Philippic Burrin, translated by Janet Lloyd Steven Englund Consider the French. They march through history saddled...
Paid articleLife As We Know It by Michael Berube
Isbell, Harold
A PLACE AT THE TABLE Life As We Knew It A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child Michael Berube Harold Isbel In September of 1991, James Lyon Berube was born with a chromosomal anomaly,...
Paid articlePayback by Thomas Kelly
Deignan, Thomas
SANDHOGS & SCOUNDRELS Payback Thomas Kelly Thomas Deignan A page-turner buttressed by ethnic conflict, mob vengeance, and the twists and turns of family loyalty, Payback is a violent tour...
Paid articleResurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky by Rene Girard
Prusak, Bernard G
PRIDE & PROPHECY Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky Rene Girard, edited and translated by James G. Williams Bernard G, Prusah Dostoevsky's characters are often vile things,...
Paid articleWhat, me Jewish?
Godfrey, Aaron W
WHAT, ME JEWISH? Aaron W. Godfrey Madeleine Albright's dis-covery of her Jewish roots brought back howl discov-ered my own Jewish roots, which I should have realized earlier but did not. My...
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