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 Vol. 126 Issue 021 (December 3 1999)
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors A photo wrongly read I salute Christopher Young's October 22 cover. I've seen hundreds of pictures of Pope John Paul II, but this photo seems so intensely...
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Editorial
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COMMONWEAL Mandate from Rome On November 17, after more than a decade of negotiations with the presidents of Catholic colleges and universities, and after repeated efforts to appease curial...
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Notebook
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Baumann, Paul
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NOTEBOOK CROSSING THE THRESHOLD The pope makes a house call Religion and sex. It's a marriage made in heaven. I learned this while reading George Weigel's back-breaking, thousand-page biography...
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Good strategies & bad
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Callahan, Daniel
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ETHICS WATCH DANIEL CALLAHAN GOOD STRATEGIES & BAD Opposing physician-assisted suicide The state of Oregon has been notable in recent years for some policy innovations, not all of which...
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Ignorance is bliss
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McGowan, Jo
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OF SEVERAL MINDS JO McGOWAN IGNORANCE IS BLISS U.S. college students in India There is nothing like meeting a college student for getting a sense of popular culture. My husband and I, who...
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A MOST UNLIKELY HERO
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Conti, Gregory
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A MOST UNLIKELY HERO A Fascist who saved Jews Gregory Conti December 1944. A bitter cold day in Budapest. A tall handsome man in a dignified but tattered suit, his eyes alert and searching, is...
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Rain All Night
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Ponsot, Marie
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Rain All Night On the road home the tide is rising. Riding the road-tide is dangerous but it's not safe to stand still. Hang on the verge & you drown. I'm going along for the ride. I may see...
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From the archives
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From the archives Throughout 1999. Commonweal has been celebiating its 75th annivrsary. Here from the magazine's November 20. 1964 issue is an excerpt from "Hirth Control ami the Council"...
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NBC's 'The West Wing'
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Wren, Celia
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MEDIA Celia Wren THE INSIDE DOPE(S) NBC's 'The West Wing' N othing thrills like falling in with the in-crowd, and you can't get much further in— politically, at least—than NBC's new White...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Segall, Vivian
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BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Vivian Segall Vivian Segall is a writer and editor in Fairfield, Connecticut. Sometimes there is a perfect book for a perfect place, as I found out a...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Pritchard, William
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William Pritchard William Pritchard is the Henry Clay Folger professor of English at Amherst College. He is the author of Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews (University of...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Antepara, Robin
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Robin Antepara Robin Antepara is a free-lance writer currently living in Japan. In the past ten years, a number of remarkable books by Chinese women have been published to...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Murphy, Cullen
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Cullen Murphy Cullen Murphy is the managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly. His most recent book is The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (Houghton...
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Cunneen, Sally
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Sally Cunneen Sally Cunneen, professor emeritus at Rockland Community College, is author of In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol (Ballantine). Two personal cross-cultural explorations...
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Nilson, Jon
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Jon Nilson Jon Nilson is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Chicago. He specializes in ecumenical theology and contemporary Catholicism. W hen I told a friend that I had ...
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Going forth
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KIRWAN, MICHAEL
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THE LAST WORD GOING FORTH Michael Kirwan Michael Kirwan died of cancer on November 12. He was fifty-four. For over twenty years, he lived with the poor in Washington, D.C., founding two...
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Vol. 126 Issue 022 (December 17 1999)
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