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 Vol. 124 Issue 009 (May 9 1997)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence A long-time subscriber renews once more; a one-time defector sends cash and good wishes
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HARRINGTON, (REV.) EMMET; ERARD, PHILIP; MICHAELSON, SEAN D.; MOYNIHAN, RUTH B.; Lennon, Brian; LUKASZEWSKI, LEON; Miles, Jack; Finn, James; ROBERTS, (REV.) JAMES R.
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CORRESPONDENCE And the same to you Note: This letter accompanied a one-year subscription renewal. Sandra Smith manages Commonweal's circulation and signs our renewal/expiration reminders. Dear...
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Editorial Testing China and us
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Testing China...and us The Chinese government is invading Hong Kong. In preparation for its July 1 takeover, Beijing has stationed there a forty-man contingent of the Red Army. True, the troops are...
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We, the people-of Cod Our columnist argues for democratic reforms within the church
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Callahan, Sidney
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SIDNEY CALLAHAN WE, THE PEOPLE-OF GOD The church needs a constitution What do you think, an inter-viewer asked the noted the-ologian Charles Davis, "is the greatest challenge facing the church at...
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Liberty interests Advocates of physician-assisted suicide have turned the American shibboleth "Give me freedom or give me death!" on its head
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Gaffney, Edward McGlynn
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Edward McGlynn Gaffney LIBERTY INTERESTS They do not include suicide Until Oregon amended its constitution in 1994, all fifty states prohibited physician-assisted suicide, either expressly or...
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A ZAIRIAN JOURNEY Chaos in Mobutu's Zaire isn't new More than a decade ago, our author saw the country sliding into the void
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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A ZAIRIAN JOURNEY Life under Mobutu, thief of all thieves Rand Richards Cooper Watching the tumultuous events in Central Africa in recent years, I've found it hard to square the ongoing agony...
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A Doll's House Stonewall Jackson's House British actress Janet McTeer gives life and liveliness to Ibsen's heroine
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren FROM NORA'S HOUSE TO OURS 'A Doll's House' & 'Stonewall Jackson's House' An armful of Christmas pres-ents launches Henrik Ib-sen's ADo//'s Howse(Belasco Theatre) on its perfect...
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Lucas's 'Star Wars' Great movie making, great stories, great liturgy-our media critic takes off
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McConnell, Frank
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Frank McConnell IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY Lucas's 'Star Wars' This year's first Big Cultural Event began twenty years ago. I'm talking, of course, about the release of the Star Wars trilogy,...
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Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen
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Douglas, Lawrence
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The Goldhagen riddle Lawrence Douglas Book discussed in this essay Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Daniel Goldhagen Barnes Scott of Yale set the tone of the...
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The Sleeping Lifeguard Apollo on the Bechstein Aber wozu dann dieses kemplizierte Ding?
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O'Gorman, Ned
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Poetry Ned O'Gorman The Sleeping Lifeguard He dreams of windows that flutter open into eddies of sunlight and fillets of spume. I came round on the twentieth lap and he lay perfectly...
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Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
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Maitland, Sara
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BOOKS Lights! Cameras! Dreams! Reality and Dreams Muriel Spark Sara Maitland Muriel Spark, as well as being an extremely good novel-ist, is a conspicuously dif-ficult one to review. This is...
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Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
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Sayers, Valerie
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FAMILY TROUBLES Human Croquet Kate Atkinson Valerie Sayers Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a com-ic novel bubbling with ebul-lient language, won the 1995 Whitbread Prize in...
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Dr America by James T Fisher
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Keen, Suzanne
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OUT OF ONE, MANY Dr. America The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-61 James T. Fisher Suzanne Keen I am perhaps uniquely i11-qualified to review Dr. Amer- ica, for I know the author, but not the...
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A Measure of My Days by David Loxterkamp, M. D.
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Collins, Clare
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DOCTOR'S INSCAPE A Measure of My Days The Journal of a Country Doctor David Loxterkamp, M.D. Clare Collins At the ungodly hour of 4:30 a.m., David Loxterkamp rises from his bed, feeds the...
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Moy Moy seals the bargain
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McGowan, Jo
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MOY MOY SEALS THE BARGAIN Jo McGowan A doption in India is still a very strange concept for most people. The most positive response I get from strangers who learn that our third child is adopted...
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Vol. 124 Issue 010 (May 23 1997)
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