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 Vol. 124 Issue 014 (August 15 1997)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence Lincoln & Saginaw revisited
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JR., GEORGE GALLUP; Steinfels, Peter; NICHOLS, RANDOLPH; CUNNINGHAM, DAN; O'NEILL, MICHAEL; McMENAMIN, JOHN; DOHERTY, EDWARD F.; MORRIS, CHARLES R.; Ahmann, Mathew; Baumann, Paul; WICKES, MARIETTE; FISCHER, PHILIP C.; Woodward, Kenneth L.
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Not a feel-good' faith Peter Steinfels's article about Murray Kempton [June 6] hurts me deeply. I am concerned that a respected journalist would attempt to characterize something as deep and...
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Editorial Religious persecution
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Religious persecution Murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment of Christians have been in the news. In places like Sudan (see, Commonweal, "For Sale: People," January 17,1997) and China (Richard...
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Et Cetera One small step Transplant successful
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ONE SMALL STEP "Welcome to the modern world": So reads the first letter to the editors sent via Commonweal's new web site, http://www.commonwealmagazine.org. We will not quibble with...
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The grandma hypothesis Don't throw granny from the train
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Callahan, Sidney
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SIDNEY CALLAHAN THE GRANDMA HYPOTHESIS Wallpaper she ain't Grandmothers matter. So concludes my all-time favorite report of research in Science magazine (April 25, 1997). Admittedly, now that...
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Women & money & politics Pacs give women a choice: Agree with us on abortion, or get your money elsewhere
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McCarthy, Abigail
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ABIGAIL MCCARTHY WOMEN & MONEY & POLITICS Can Susan & Emily work together? On June 26, the statue depicting pioneer suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott was...
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Vive le status quo
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Pedraza, Jorge
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Jorge Pedraza VIVE LE STATUS QUO In France, the more things change... Apparently hoping to cut off a growing public disaffection with his center-right government, French President Jacques Chirac...
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KIESLOWSKI ON THE MOUNTAINTOP The acclaimed director of the trilogy Red, White, and Blue may have done his best work using a well-known biblical script
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Cunneen, Joseph
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KIESLOWSKI ON THE MOUNTAINTOP Ten Commandments from the late Polish director Joseph Cunneen The death of Krzysztof Kieslowski in March 1996 was widely mourned. The Polish director had achieved...
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Meadow above Forest above Sea Rock
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Partridge, Dixie
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KIESLOWSKI ON THE MOUNTAINTOP Ten Commandments from the late Polish director Joseph Cunneen The death of Krzysztof Kieslowski in March 1996 was widely mourned. The Polish director had achieved...
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IN HUNGARY, COPING WITH FREEDOM Davis Late capitalism has come to Hungary with a bang A frequent visitor reports on the country's attempts to cope
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Murray, Robert
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IN HUNGARY, COPING WITH FREEDOM The capitalists are coming Robert Murray Davis When I first went to Budapest as a Fulbright lec-turer in 1981, the city did not seem wholly for-eign, since any...
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Dark Waters
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Markus, Peter
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Peter Marktis Dark Waters I We return with these marble-eyed insomniacs who rise from beds of scagweed to scrounge stagnant shallows, sudded mudflats stirred by stickshadows striping the shore...
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Face/Off A case of interchangeable physiognomies from an action film expert
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva MASKED MEN Woo's 'Face/Off Face/Off is a feast for the sens-es that often turns into an as-sault on the senses and that always asks us to disbelieve our senses. On one level, this...
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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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McConnell, Frank
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BOOKS Good & plenty Nasen & Dixen Thomas Pynchon Frank McConnell I 've never been any good at keeping secrets. So: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon is not only the most stunning novel I've read...
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Just as I Am by Billy Graham
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Woodward, Kenneth L
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A CAREER IN GOP-TALK Just as I Am The Autobiography of Billy Graham Billy Graham HarperCollins, $28.50, 760 pp. Kenneth L. Woodward The life of Billy Graham has been told and retold many...
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The One and the Many by Martin E Marty The New Golden Rule by Amitai Etzioni
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McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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TIES THAT ALMOST BIND The One and the Nany America's Struggle for the Common Good Martin E. Marty The New Golden Rule Community and Morality in Democratic Society Amitai Etzioni Wilson Carey...
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Snow in August by Pete Hamill
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Callery, Sean
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BOY, RABBI, GOLEM Snow in August Pete Hamilt Little, Brown and Company, $23.95, 325 pp. Sean Callery For now, Michael stood quietly in the hot Brooklyn night while clouds tried to become angels...
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Resistance of the Heart by Nathan Stoltzfus
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Marget, Madeline
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YENTA POWER Resistance off the Heart Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany Nathan Stoltzfus W.W.Norton, $30,386 pp. Madeline Marget During a few days at the end of February...
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Money by Andrew Hacker
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Wolfe, Alan
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ONLY 3 MILLION! Money Who Has How Much and Why Andrew Hacker Alan Wolfe Headers will find lots of fascinating tidbits in Andrew Hacker's Money. There are more attorneys in America than there are...
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Malfunctioning hearts
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Platt, David K
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MALFUNCTIONING HEARTS David K. Platt One thing I wasn't expecting at a service station was a malfunctioning heart. My attention had been focused on my old car, which has a catalogue of troubles...
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