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 Vol. 128 Issue 011 (June 1 2001)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Lap dog I loved Frans Jozef van Beeck's story about dogs in church ["God's Best Friend," April 6]. It reminded me of a dog named Buttons, whose master passed away—a good Irish...
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Bush-league energy plan
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Bush-league energy plan Chicken Little and George W. Bush are wrong. The sky is not falling and, the current manufactured hysteria notwithstanding, there is no energy crisis. Not at least if you...
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John J. Egan, R.I.P.
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JOHN J. EGAN, R.I.P. Studs Terkel once said of Monsignor John J. Egan, for over forty years a field commander in battles for social justice: "He never met a picket line he didn't like." The...
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Crossing 125th Street: A commuter encounters an apparition
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Baumann, Paul
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PAUL BAUMANN CROSSING 125th STREET I sometimes miss the elephants Twice a day I catch a bus across Harlem at 125th Street on my way between the Metro-North railway station and Commonweal's...
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The politics of power: Lessons from California's electrical wars
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Higgins, Thomas J.
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Thomas J. Higgins THE POLITICS OF POWER A letter from California It may be that the first big crisis to confront any elected official is rarely the one he or she would have anticipated. John...
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Bob Kerrey's culpability: The principle of noncombatant immunity
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Marino, Gordon
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Gordon Marino KERREY'S CULPABILITY Vietnam & the just-war tradition Hast month," Sixty Minutes II" aired a program in which Gerhard Klann claimed that on February 25,1969, former Senator Bob...
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RACISM ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE: To what extrent has the nature of America's racial problem changed in the last thirty years?
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Marciniak, Ed
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RACISM ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE But not everyone has noticed Ed Marciniak A new vocabulary is surfacing to assess the state of race relations in the United States. The operative words and...
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RACISM ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE: To what extrent has the nature of America's racial problem changed in the last thirty years?
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Wycliff, Don
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Don Wycliff Ed Mardniak is absolutely right when he says we are struggling for a new way to talk intelligently and usefully about race. But what inhibits such conversation, I think, is less...
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THE GENOME & US
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Editors, The
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THE GENOME & US Introduction ¦ "One doesn't want to get carried away, but I have to say I'm pretty carried away." Thaf s how Francis Collins, who directs the National Human Genome Research...
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THE GENOME & US
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Hughes, Austin L.
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Austin L. Hughes I am fearfully and wonderfully made," said the Psalmist, and I can find no better words than these ancient ones to sum up my emotions as we enter the genomic era of human...
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THE GENOME & US
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Cornwell, John
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John Cornwell The social and ethical scruples thrown up by the science of new genetics are by now familiar. Who will benefit from the therapies? Will the gold rush for gene patenting be...
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THE GENOME & US
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Garvey, Michael O.
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Michael O. Garvey Humananimality animality is something with which certain sorts of writers like to startle the straitlaced. Eric Gill, who certainly knew a thing or two about animals,...
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THE GENOME & US
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Appleton, Sarah
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from Book of My Hunger, Book of the Earth If I were to find true speech with you I would have to do so by my mind. It would do no good to crouch down, look you in your face and try to join the...
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Amores Perros Memento
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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S C R E E N Rand Richards Cooper KILLING TINE 'Amoves Perros' & 'Memento' Isn't the durability of film noir amazing? With its dark visions of violence and despair, 1940s noir drew...
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De profundis: Verdi the atheist & his 'Requiem'
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Ivry, Benjamin
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M U S I C Benjamin Ivry DE PROFUNDIS Verdi's searing 'Requiem' The hundredth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), widely commemorated in the music world this year,...
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River Town by Peter Hessler
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Clifford, Nicholas
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BOOKS Travel writing as it should be River Town Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessier Nicholas Clifford________ Peter Hessler's River Town is a gem, the best piece of travel writing I...
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Why Religion Matters by Huston Smith Humanity by Jonathan Glover
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Griffith, Paul J.
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WANTED: THE VISION THING Why Religion Matters by Huston Smith Humanity A Moral History of the 20th Century Jonathan Glover Paul J. Griffiths________ The books under review here are alike...
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Food's Frontier by Richard Manning
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Zupancic, Margaret L.
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CROSS FERTILIZATIONS Food's frontier Richard Maturing North Point Press, $24,225 pp Margaret L. Zupancic The so-called Green Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, during which most of today's...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham terward in Jerusalem was not something strange and alien to Israel; it was Jewish history." He firmly grounds his ecclesiology in the reality of...
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My children at sea
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Houghton, William
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us very close to what lectio should be, as Basil Pennington points out in his brief introduction to the book). This is a fine anthology that would be a welcome addition to anyone's personal...
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Vol. 128 Issue 012 (June 15 2001)
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