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 Vol. 126 Issue 014 (August 13 1999)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Objectively wrong I'm very glad reviewer Mary Midgely liked my Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate [May 21]. But I should draw attention to a mistake—or perhaps it's...
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Editorial
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An eerie echo It was hard not to be both appalled and fascinated by the media coverage of the death of John F. Kennedy, jr. The omnivorous appetite for copy and spectacle that fuels TV news...
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Et cetera
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ET CETERA CARDINAL & PARACLETE ¦ "I'm a browser," Cardinal John O'Connor declared last month. An old-fashioned bookstore browser, he meant, not the Internet variety. His column in the July 1...
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A tradition of choice
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Garvey, John
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From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. Here from the August 24,1962 issue is "The City of Rome Prepares" by former associate editor-at-large,...
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Death in Africa
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Englund, Steven
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Steven Englund DEATH IN AFRICA aids decimates a continent Harly in June, I was an observer at a workshop organized by unaids in Dakar, Senegal, whose purpose was to create an "International...
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Joseph Druffel, R.I.P.
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Steinfels, Peter
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Peter Steinfels JOSEPH DRUFFEL, R.I.P. Architect for the poor Something is different," my wife Peggy said as we entered Saint Gregory the Great Church on West 90th Street in Manhattan, where we...
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DOYLE FOR THE DEFENSE
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Reidy, Maurice Timothy
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DOYLE FOR f HE DEFENSE A lawyer with Catholic convictions Maurice Timothy Reidy Kevin Doyle is not a man who has gone unnoticed. As New York State's capital defender since 1995, Doyle holds a...
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STRANGLING CUBA
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Brown, Brian
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STRANGLING CUBA Does the embargo make sense? Brian Brown At the pediatric unit of the Juan Manuel Marques Hospital in Havana, I watch an infant girl struggling for breath in an incubator; her...
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva WILDE FUN 'An Ideal Husband' Hscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, premiered after his earlier successes, Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance—slick melodramas...
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SUCH FRIENDS: THE WORK OF W.B. YEATS
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Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
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A R T Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill IRELAND'S POET 'Such Friends: The Work of W.B. Yeats' Such Friends: The Work of W.B. Yeats," on view through September 11 at the New York Public Library's...
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Tomi
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Donnelly, Daria
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BOOKS No fairy tale Tomi A Childhood under the Nazis Tomi lingerer Tomko. 529.95,775 pp. Daria Donnelly Alsatian graphic artist Tomi Ungerer is best known for the children's books he made...
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The Holocaust in American Life
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Douglas, Lawrence
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TOO VIVID A NENORY The Holocaust in American Life Peter Novick Houghton Mifflin, $27.373 pp. Lawrence Douglas What is the value of preserv-ing the memory of the Holocaust's radical evil? The...
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Sight Unseen
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lez-Crussi, F. Gonz~
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A CLEARER VISION Sight Unseen Georgina Kleege Yale University Prtss, $25,233 pp. F. Gonz&lez-Crussi Blindness may be counted among the nightmare ter-rors of the hale and hearty. The well-known...
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HOW tO DO It
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O'Brien, Dennis
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A LITTLE ADVICE Hew to Do It Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians Rudolph M. Bell Dennis O'Brien This is the perfect book for a family vacation. Sitting in your summertime rocker, you...
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Becoming Light
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Hamilton, Carol
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Becoming Light "Let them learn how to live and die more lightly." Czeslaw Milosz Mists rise in the valleys, skim off with the breath of farm ponds. As when we are no longer weighted down with...
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'Why would they do that?'
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Shriver, Timothy
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f HI L A S f WORD ?WHY WOULP THEY DO THAT?9 Timothy Shriver Back in the days of the Great Washington Sex Scandal last year there was gnashing of teeth. "What should we tell the children?"...
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