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Vol. 128 Issue 021 (December 7 2001)
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Robert White, Andrew Greeley, Thomas Aquinas & more
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ClX!l^i'O'IX11-13 To the Editors Profile in courage I wanted to thank you for the profile of Ambassador Robert White ("Death & Lies in El Salvador/' October 26). His comments reinforced a...
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War & the common good
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€OHH#NWEAL War & the common good E vents move so quickly and unpredictably in Afghanistan that the concerns of today's headlines are often rendered superfluous by tomorrow's. This has made...
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Making nice with Muslims: How peace loving is Islam?
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL HINDS JOHN GARVEY MAKING NICE WITH MUSLINS There are certain problems Many months before September 11,1 had a call from a Muslim who had seen my name in Peter...
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Dangers of victory
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Pfaff, William
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OF SEVERAL HINDS WILLIAM PFAFF DANGERS OF VICTORY Resisting the demand to widen the war I1t is possible to be optimistic, if cautiously so, about the damaging consequences the Taliban's...
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Terrorists on trial: Preserving justice by just means
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Slaughter, Anne-Marie
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Anne-Marie Slaughter TERRORISTS ON TRIAL Getting it right In his first speech to the American people after September 11, President George W. Bush said "we will bring the terrorists to justice...
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Love, sex & aids: South Africa ponders legalizing prostitution
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Gleeson, Andrew
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Andrew Gleeson LOVE, SEX & AIDS Report from South Africa In August, the Pretoria High Court ruled that antiprostitution provisions in the Sexual Offenses Act were unconstitutional. If the...
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Nobel sentiments: A Nobel laureate offers a brief for working people
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Senser, Robert A.
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Robert A. Senser NOBEL SENTIMENTS Joseph Stiglitz & the Washington Consensus At gala ceremonies in Stockholm on December 10, Joseph E. Stiglitz, fifty-eight, professor of economics at Columbia,...
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The Moment
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Martin, Paul
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The Moment Across the field at a pond obscured by Black Willows I turned a certain way and saw a Great Blue Heron beside a white limb in the water. Naked. Uncertain. Like the soul in its...
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POLITICS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: Americans are eager to share the burdens, not just the benefits of democracy
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McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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POLITICS AFTER SEPTEMBER I I Domestic & foreign affairs at odds Wilson Carey NcWilliams Before September 11, the Bush administration was in the doldrums and sliding a bit in the polls. Its...
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Berlin Babylon
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREES! Rand Richards Cooper ARCHITECTURAL ANGST 'Berlin Babylon' Two years ago, while renovation of Berlin's former Reichstag building was still underway, I asked a German diplomat why...
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A&E gets a face-lift
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Alleva, Richard
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CULTURE WATCH Richard Alleva A&E GETS A FACE-LIFT Stark reality slicked up TV programming needs a face. I don't mean merely the face of the host or star of a particular series, but the way...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Kavanagh, Peter
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BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Peter Kavanagh Peter Kavanagh is senior producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio current-affairs programs "This Morning" and "The Sunday...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Cohen, Richard
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Richard Cohen Richard Cohen is a freelance book editor and writer. His book on the history ofswordplay will be published by Random House in 2002. I asked the priest in front of me in the bank...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Mathias, Anita
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Anita Hathias Anita Mathias, a regular contributor, lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. Salman Rushdie's dazzling, densely textured maximilist novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Picador...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Lethbridge, Lucy
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Lucy Lethbridge Lucy Lethbridge is literary adviser of the London Tablet. It's not often that you come across a book that you know you will keep close by you always, a friend and guide for...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Freeman, Mary Lee
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Nary Lee Freeman Mary Lee Freeman is a palliative-care nurse practitioner and former Commonweal intern. Four years ago in these pages I recommended the works of David James Duncan,...
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Critics' choices for Christmas
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Kane, Paul Q.
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Paul Q. Kane Paul Q. Kane is Commonweal's business manager. The Kanes "were Roosevelt Republicans and then Roosevelt Democrats," my father used to say. From a broad-brush opening like...
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Flagrant foul
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Doyle, Brian
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THE LAST WORD FLAGRANT FOUL Brian Doyle When someone dies, we mourn the loss of his verve and the stilling of his body, but not so much the way he occupied space; so I sing Tommy Crotty,...
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