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Vol. 125 Issue 019 (November 6 1998)
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••Cover Page••
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Correspondence
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Bill didn't do it Your recent editorial on Bill Clinton ["The President," September 11] was excellent, but I must take issue with the notion that we need Clinton, or any president, to "manage...
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Small steps
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STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Business Manager: Gregory...
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Back to basics
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titerrorist promises is also a legitimate question.) Placing the CIA in the middle of such an inherently difficult and politically delicate situation is fraught with risks. It is, in short,...
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An engine needs brakes
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Pfaff, William
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n acute observer who was in Washington for the meeting of international financial institutions at the start of October says that he felt that he was attending a wake, a wake for...
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The shaming of America
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Callahan, Sidney
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n ~ give in; I'm succumbing to scandal analysis. And this after my boast that I was the only writer in America who never wrote a word about O.J. Not watching TV news provides...
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What does Tony want?
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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to lie. The most skillful manipulators are those who, at the moment they utter falsehoods, can self-deceptively be convinced of their own story. Private sexual behavior may not always...
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The New Catechism
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Andrews, B.A. St.
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The New Catechism Notice how sparrows cluster like dried raisins in the knife-edge of North wind. As you listen to their incantations locked in ice, risk walking any street in any town in the...
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MUSIC AS SACRAMENT
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Burris, Keith C.
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MUSIC AS SACRAMENT The mastery of Robert Shaw Keith C. Burris h am a Connecticut Yankee transplanted from the Midwest. I have never worshiped the sun, never sought the heat. But this past June...
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TOP OF THE NINTH
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southwestern France. The institute has had a number of sponsors over the years, including Emory, Ohio State, and Boston universities. It is now sponsored by Furman University, a physically...
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Affliction
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Alleva, Richard
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he artistic strengths of Affliction, Paul Schrader's soon-to-be-released adaptation of the novel by Russell Banks, are apparent before the film is five minutes underway. Its flaws take a...
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Kaaterskill Falls
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McDermott, Alice
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A tapestry o f l i f e , woven in words Alice McDermott ate in this marvelous novel by the author of Total Immersion and The Family Merkowitz, one of the central characters allows herself a...
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Seamus Heaney
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Donnelly, Daria
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A POET ILLUMINATED Daria Donnelly ~ elen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, and America's best-known poetry critic, has been an ardent admirer of...
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Shakespeare
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McConnell, Frank
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THE SOURCE OF OUR SELVES Frank McConnell Ill ~ have to begin by acknowledging that Harold Bloom has been, for almost forty years, a major presence in my life. He was my teacher and my...
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The Story of American Freedom
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Wolfe, Alan
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ern poet, Wallace Stevens. And if Falstaff is all immanence, Hamlet, his only conceivable rival in acuity of intelligence, is all transcendence, aware to the point of pain of the world's...
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The Word According to Eve
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Maitland, Sara
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viewed the cold war as a sham were not serving the cause of freedom so much as they were exposing their narcissistic naivet6. Foner celebrates the contributions these critics made to American...
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Master Georgie
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Murtaugh, Daniel M.
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phy obviously has a real desire to come to terms with this impossible, demanding, impelling, and aggressively tricky text. The writer wants to know, he wants to engage, he wants me, the...
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Governing with the News
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Cook, Timothy E.
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MIRRORS FOR THE MEDIA Robert Schmuhl ver since Monica Lewinsky became a household name, the American news media have conducted themselves with the restraint of a fire department...
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The Living Wage
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Buell, John
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A STRATEGY THAT PAYS John Buell espite the conservative political and economic tenor of the last two decades, one progressive initiative is making a comeback: Proposals to expand the...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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~ arl Rahner complained that Christians profess a trinitarian faith in their creed and liturgy but live as if they were pure monotheists. Part of this problem derives, Rahner thought,...
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The ramp
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Marx, Paul
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ca 1'141 Paul Marx ~ t's not easy to carry on a conversation with Jerry. Finding the right word is not his thing; finding the right wood or the right tool is. He'd much rather get on with...
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Vol. 125 Issue 020 (November 20 1998)
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