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Vol. 126 Issue 005 (March 12 1999)
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Vol. 126 Issue 006 (March 26 1999)
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Correspondence: Vouchers, schools, etc.
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Thanks, Frank! I am grateful to Commonweal and to Paul Baumann for the obituary of Frank McConnell [February 12], a writer who touched an extraordinary range of...
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Editorial: Superior people
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COMMONWEAL Superior people Advertising is the lingua franca of the modern age. Everyone has something to sell or something they want to buy, and advertising is what brings sellers and buyers...
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Politics & religion
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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OF SEVERAL MINDS E.J. DIONNE, Jr. POLITICS & RELIGION Conservatives sound retreat It's hard to notice historic turnings at the moment they happen. But sometimes the signs of the times appear in...
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Successful women
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL NcCARTHY SUCCESSFUL WOMEN How to educate the world Perhaps no institutions better illustrate the interweaving of change, continuity, and renewed vision in the Catholic...
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Jerzy Turowicz, R. I. P.
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Finn, James
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James Finn JERZY TUROWICZ, R.I.P. 1912-99 When Jerzy Turowicz died of a heart attack at age A W^wM eighty-six on January 27, Poland lost a great AjA^fl and wise man. But to say only this fails to...
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Don't cry for Pinochet
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Mott, Stephen De
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Stephen De Mott DON'T CRY FOR PINOCHET Rescuing the general The arrest in London last October of Chile's aging former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, has, if nothing else, revealed some disturbing...
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Protesting abortion
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Gaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
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Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. PROTESTING ABORTION Free speech or no? Since 1993 there have been seven murders and fourteen attempted murders of abortion-clinic personnel, as well as more than two...
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WALKING WHERE JESUS WALKED
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Mason, Alane Salierno
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WALKING WHERE JESUS WALKED The stones of Jerusalem Alane Salierne Mason The ways of Sion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her...
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From the archives: March 16, 1927
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From the Archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal &I be celebrafirzg ifs 75th nnniversary. Herefrom the March 16, 1927 issue is a poem by Paul Claude1 (1868-1955), French poet, dranmtisf, and...
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT Life Is Beautiful' Hife Is Beautiful, co-written and directed by Roberto Benigni, is now the highest-grossing foreign film in U.S. history. Favorable...
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Dreaming with His Eyes Open
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Marnham, Patrick
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BOOKS Outlasting Rockefeller Dreaming with His Eyes Open A Lift? of Diego Rivera Patrick Marnhum Donna Gustafson Arguably the greatest mural painter of the twentieth century, the Mexican artist...
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Nature's Destiny
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Denton, Michael J.
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DESIGNER MODEL Nature's Destiny How the Laws of Biology Reveal the Purpose of the Universe Michael /. Denton Free Press, $27.50,454 pp. N. Therese Lysaught Does God exist? Does creation in its...
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My Neighbors' Pools
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Staples, Catherine
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My Neighbors' Pools The way seals ride the incline then sweep like light down the scoured white tanks, you know they're dreaming the sea. Nights like these—windless—land-locked— all I need is a...
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Never at War
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Weart, Spencer C.
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WELL, ALMOST NEVER Never at War Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another Spencer C. Wcart Yale University Press. $35.432 pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain Spencer R. Weart, director of the Center for...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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RELIGION BOOKHOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise is...
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Spread the table
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Broderick, Bill
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THE LAST WORD SPREAD THE TABLE Bill Broderick More than three years ago, in courageous defiance of Vatican guidelines, our dio-cese decreed that girls would not be allowed to serve at the altar....
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