Letters tr~ c't 0 O ~J Auditing the bishops, remembering Merton REPORTING SEXUAL ABUSE Regarding "The Color Purple" (March 11): I participated in the National Review Board audit of my...
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From the Editors Extraordinary Means T he passions of those on either side of the Terri Schiavo tragedy are not hard to understand. Still, whether Michael Schiavo was right to have his...
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o~ Maurice q rnothy Reidy Clint's World THE TROUBLE WITH 'MILLION DOLLAR BABY" C lint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, which won the Academy Award for best picture this year, has also been...
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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Teenage Sex WHY MORE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WAITING Tile popular portrait of teenage sexual behavior can leave many parents with the disquieting sense that American...
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od i Andrew Lustig Lethal Prescriptions PETER SINGER'S FLAWED ETHICS ~ ~ A recent issue of Prhlceton A/um~1 ni Weekly f~used on "ExplorEthics and featured ing a ~ i profile of Peter...
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eq Robin Antepara Culture Matters AMERICANS THROUGH JAPANESE EYES O h, she's such a nothing!" a friend exclaimed as we sat in a coffee shop on the Upper West Side of Manhattan discussing...
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The Economics of Health Care It's Going to Cost a Lot More Charles R. Morris o~ 4 E veryone knows about Social Security's financial problems. At some point in the future, payroll taxes and...
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The technical challenge facing the United States is how to finance health care, not whether we can afford to do so. The time-honored financing solution--employerprovided health insurance--is...
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'Et Papa Tacet' The Genocide of Polish Catholics Michael Phayer M uch has been written about Pope Pius XII and the Jews. His unwillingness to speak out explicitly against the murder of Jews...
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he hadn't condemned the horrors. Another Polish church leader wrote to Plus that some of the faithful were now asking "whether there was a God," and whether the pope "had completely forgotten...
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0 ic Richard Alleva Settling Accounts 'THE MERCHANT OF VENICE' & 'DOWNFALL' The Merchant of Venice is a fascinating headache of a play and didn't Shakespeare intend it so? He clangs...
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im e-.i O O 24 Religion Booknotes Lawrence S. Cunningham Four Cultures of the West began as a series of lectures at the University Notre Dame. I had the privilege of attending the lectures,...
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The Last Word 7I r,,a Against the Current Liz Leibold McCloshey L ast summer I turned forty. I am embarrassed to admit that I experienced the classic angst associated with reaching...
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