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IssueVol. 132 Issue 003 (February 11 2005)
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Paid articleLetters
Letters c-q o o ~9 Iraq, converts & women priests DEMOCRATS & ABORTION A number of letters to Commonweal suggested that I was wrong not to vote for John Kerry (Correspondence, October...
Paid articleEditorial
From the Editors Torture's Apologists I n nominating Alberto Gonzales to be U.S. attorney general, highest law enforcement officer in the country, President George W. Bush flouted not only the...
Paid articleEt Cetera
El CETERA ONE SMAkk STEP p resident Bush was right to warn the American people that the high turnout for the January 30 Iraqi elections was only a first step toward democracy and independence. He...
Paid articleSing Out
Garvey, John
ohn arvey Sing Out EVEN IF YOU CAN'T CARRY A TUNE ~~ Years ago, before I was married ~ (there were giants on the earth , [~'1~ in those days and dinosaurs ~J roamed...), Regina was a music ~;~...
Paid articleLearning Not to Think
McGowan, Jo
Mc owan Learning Not to Think SCHOOLING IN INDIA Days after the tsunami, Manmo~ h a n Singh, the prime minister of India, toured the Andaman ~ ~ and Nicobar islands, among the areas worst...
Paid articleProlife & Prochoice
Byron, William J.
William Byron Prolife & Prochoice CAN THE DEMOCRATS ENLARGE THEIR TENT? I was not surprised when Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) shocked a group of abortion-rights supporters last month by...
Paid articleThis Bridge, Like Poetry, Is Vertigo
Ponsot, Marie
swallow it. We cannot assimilate it. We cannot become comfortable with it, because it's fundamentally contrary to what we believe as Americans....Every poll shows a vast and growing unease...
Paid articleNearly Forgotten
Magat, Richard
Richard Magat Nearly Forgotten THE BOOK BEHIND 'BROWN" T he year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Commemorations were...
Paid articleJust the Facts
MORRIS, CHARLES R.
Just the C The Truth about Social Security Charles R. Morris T he first important fact about the Social Security "crisis" is that there is no crisis. The second important fact is that the...
Paid articleThe Aviator
Alleva, Richard
Richard Alleva It's Cold Up There 'THE AVIATOR' Martin Scorsese's first film, Who's That Knocking at My Door?, proclaimed what he wanted no, what he had~ to do with his magnificent talent:...
Paid articleMagic Seeds
Griffiths, Paul J.
Paul y. 9riffiths The Center Does Not Hold Magic Seeds V. S. Naipaul Alfred A. Knopf, $25,280 pp. T his is V. S. Naipaul's fourteenth novel, and likely to be his last. He says he no longer...
Paid articleInvisible Punishment
Wycliff, Don
g r ) ) 0 Don Wycliff The Prison-Industrial Complex Invisible Punishment The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind The New Press,...
Paid articleCongregations in America
Davidson, James D.
ames D. Davidson Gathered Together e-l b. gl O O ia Congregations in America Mark Chaves Harvard University Press, $29.95,304 pp. T he United States has more than three hundred thousand...
Paid articleMountains beyond Mountains
Lysaught, M. Therese
M. Therese Lysaught The Good Doctor c~ Qa r ~a O O r Mountains beyond Mountains The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World Tracy Kidder Random House, $25.95,317...
Paid articleCommonweal Associates
Thank you, Associates This year, Commonweal begins its ninth decade of providing a place for reflective, progressive Catholic thought, a unique venture that has allowed a wide variety of voices...
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tm r o O John W. & Patricia O. Tierney, PA Michael & Barbara Toohig, VA John R. Tower, TX Edwin X. Travers, MD Alphonse F. Trezza, FL David & Ann Trigg, NC Robert E. Tufty, NY Joseph W....
Paid articleThe Streets of Shanghai
Schroth, Raymond A.
The Last Word o X 2 c g The Streets of Shanghai Raymond A. Schroth L ast June, in a faraway province of rural China, an eighteen-year-old high-school student, denied the opportunity to...
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