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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors More Remberts, please "O rare Rembert Weakland!" I exclaimed to myself after reading his irenic Janaury 11, 2002 article, "The Liturgy as Battlefield." This...
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The rule of law The war against terrorism is too important to be left to the military. Though President George W. Bush cast a wide net in declaring that war, he seems content to leave critical...
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JO McGOWAN OF SEVERAL MINDS FAMILY FEUD Will India & Pakistan come to blows? When the Indian Parliament was attacked by terrorists on December 13, 2001, we watched the news reports on television...
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OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY GIACOMETTl'S GENIUS Angst & wit I first came across the works of Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) in a 1958 issue of Paris Review. The works reproduced there were not...
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IS THE EMBRYO A PERSON? Arguing with the Catholic traditions Jean Porter Hast August 9, President George W. Bush approved federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells, but only if certain...
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DISTINCTLY HUMAN The when, where & how of life's beginnings John Collins Harvey Ever since President George W. Bush announced his decision regarding federal funding of research on human embryonic...
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Rand Richards Cooper SCREEN CLASS ACTION Altman's 'Gosford Park' Robert Altaian seems an unlikely director for Gosford Park. How could the sensibility behind a film as sprawling and wild as...
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MUSIC Benjamin Ivry BLACK AMERICA SINGS Belafonte's 'The Long Road to Freedom' Now seventy-four, Harry Be-lafonte, the Harlem-born singer, actor, and produc-er of Jamaican origins, has long been...
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BOOKS Jane Addams revised Jane Addams and the Dreams of American Democracy Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, $28, 328pp. John T. McGreevy She wore a full-length black dress almost every day of...
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DEEP RIVER Sacred Waters A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture Stephen Alter Harcourt $25,368pp. Anita Mathias Sacred Waters is a lovely, tranquil account of a...
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Thank you For seventy-eight years, Commonweal has been providing a place for Catholic, liberal, and opinionated voices to reach an audience of readers around the world. We are able to do this...
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THE LAST WORD HIGHER MATH Patrick J. Deneen Having been equally intrigued and inconvenienced by the filming of Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind on the Princeton campus, it was with great curiosity...
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Vol. 129 Issue 003 (February 8 2002)
Correspondence: Rembert Weakland, the Middle East & Islam
