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Vol. 128 Issue 021 (December 7 2001)
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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Sociological; data, other
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Dead fowl I am less pessimistic about young Catholics than either James Fisher ("Young American Catholics," November 23) or Peter Steinfels ("The Next...
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Editorials
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land, An unholy
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COMMONWEAL An unholy land The war Israel is fighting against terrorism is not the same war the United States is fighting. The origins, responsibilities, and resolutions of the two are distinct...
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Editorials
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ethics, Warring
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WARRING ETHICS The war in Afghanstan between Taliban and the Northern Alliance bears an eerie resemblance to the war between Trojans and Athenians in the Iliad: courage, steadfastness,...
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Et cetera
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Bethlehem, In
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ET CETERA In Bethlehem W Over the past year, as parts of the West Bank have been sealed off, pregnant women have been unable to reach the only maternity hospital, Holy Family Hospital in...
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An annunciation, of sorts Is she or isn't she?
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McGowan, Jo
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JO McGOWAH AN AMtftf MeiATiOli, OF SORTS Where faith & fear collide Three times in the past two years I have been almost certain I was pregnant. Whether this says more about passion or...
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At sea Our correspondent risks sunburn & other tropical dangers
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Baumann, Paul
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PAUL BAUMANN AT SEA Adventures in the Caribbean Rand Richards Cooper, known as "Cooper" to his friends, is best known to Commonweal readers as this magazine's loquacious film critic....
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ONE JOURNALIST'S BEGINNINGS From Dayton, Texas, to the University of Notre Dame and on to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune
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Wycliff, Don
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ONE JOURNALIST'S BEGINNINGS Faith, family & race Don Wycliff Ican as easily imagine myself not Catholic as I can imagine myself not black. Which is to say that I cannot imagine it at all. 1...
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To My Daughter
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Siegel, Joan I.
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To My Daughter When it comes time let all the words be spoken that must be so that I may take your voice with me for the next ten billion centuries mine will be with you like a packet of...
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THIS TOO SHALL PASS A history lesson on the 'mandatum'
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Phan, Peter C.
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THIS TOO SHALL PASS Why Ex corde's mandate won't last Peter ۥ Phan In the guidelines for the implementation of Ex corde ecclesiae adopted by the bishops last June, the mandatum, or mandate,...
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Or to Put It Another Way
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Walker, Jeanne Murray
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Or to Put It Another Way She is following the voices as I once followed a car in darkness ahead of me, the tail lights like two pieces of red fire smeared on my windshield by rain. I didn't...
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Waking Life 'Slacker' philosophers
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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Rand Richards Cooper REALLY BIG IDEAS 'Waking Life' Writer-director Richard Linklater created a name for himself with 1991's independent-film cult hit, Slacker. Slacker toured...
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Sherlockian apocrypha The thousand lives of Sherlock Holmes
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Wren, Celia
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MEDIA Celia Wren SHERLOCKIAH APOCRYPHA From Jack the Ripper to Fu Manchu Carole Nelson Douglas's latest mystery novel, Chapel Noir, involves a Rothschild baron, Jack the Ripper, a...
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Classical dilemma
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Ivry, Benjamin
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Benjamin Ivry CLASSICAL DILEMMA Paying for that symphony orchestra A stagnant U.S. economy and complex world events have cast a shadow over North America's orchestral landscape. In...
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Christ by Jack Miles
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Murtaugh, Daniel M.
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God apologizes Christ A Crisis in the Life of God Jack Miles Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95,352 pp. Daniel M. Murtaugh_____ In this meditation on the New Testament, Jack Miles builds on the project...
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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Sayers, Valerie
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CAFFEINATED REALISM The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $26,568 pp. Valerie Sayers This may be the last review in America to chime in on Jonathan Franzen's gangbusters...
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Writing New England edited by Andrew Delbanco
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Pritchard, William H.
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FRED ALLEN ON CAPE COD Writing Mew England An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present Edited by Andrew Delbanco Belknap Press Harvard University, $29.95,459 pp. William H. Pritchard In...
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Index to Volume CXXVIII
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Index to Volume CXXVIII January 12,2001 to December 21,2001 Articles and Poetry Appleton, Sarah..................From 'Book of My Hunger, Book of the Earth': a poem 11:18 Je 1 Baldwin,...
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Wholly family
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Ranly, Ernest
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WHOLLY FAMILY Ernest Ranly Every family has its own genius and that genius is largely cultivated in play. Massproduced games and fantasies can never replace homegrown ones. When I was...
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