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 Vol. 134 Issue 021 (December 7 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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BIANCHI, MARK A. CORCORAN, MATHEW N. SCHMALZ, JON HILL, JIM CALLAHAN, MICHAEL HENNESSY, LYN BURR BRI
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Screen Richard Alleva, Rand Richards Cooper Stage/Media Celia Wren Columnists E. J. Dionne Jr., John Garvey, Melinda Henneberger, Cathleen Kaveny, Jo McGowan, William Pfaff, Barbara...
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EDITORIAL: Utmost Care
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Utmost Care From the Editors It has long been the teaching of the Catholic Church that taking extraordinary measures to prolong life in the case of serious illness is not morally...
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A LETTER TO OUR READERS
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Baumann, Paul
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Commonweal . December 7, 2007 6 Dear Commonweal Reader, Over the years, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, I’ve told you something of the challenges of publishing a small magazine—...
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How to Raise Taxes
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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Commonweal . December 7, 2007 8 Columnist How to Raise Taxes E. J. Dionne Jr. A LESSON IN POLITICAL CANDOR Imagine a place where the leading politician pokes fun at those who “regard...
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A Gringo's Devotion
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Sager, Gene
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10 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Short Takes A Gringo’s Devotion Gene Sager OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE & ME Igrew up in the Midwest as a Protestant Anglo in a small family with virtually no...
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Saved by the Blood of Jesus
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Burke, Dennis
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Dennis Burke there is room. Walking the wide passageway along the groundfloor cellblock, I can see a hundred double-decker, rusty-spring beds. An inmate in an orange jumpsuit sits on the edge...
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Self-Denoting
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Small, Abbott
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14 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Self-Denoting I point to myself. I who am my soul have no quarrels, no fights to pick; peace in the bone. My ego picks fights. It is up all...
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Preserving Life?
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Sulmasy, Daniel P.
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16 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Articles Preserving Life? The Vatican & PVS Daniel P. Sulmasy Last year, the Italian poet Piergiorgio Welby announced at a press conference that after...
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Family Planning
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Hicks, Patrick
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Family Planning The Trials of Infertility Patrick Hicks I’ve been having a lot of sex lately. Back when I was randy teenager this would have seemed like an impossible dreamcided to grab...
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Edward Hopper in D.C.
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Tushnet, Eve
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24 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Art Naked but Not Exposed Eve Tushnet EDWARD HOPPER AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY Edward Hopper shares his most famous subject matter with many artists of...
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Christmas Critics
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McDermott, Alice
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26 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Christmas Critics Books Alice McDermott This year’s fuss over Harry Potter’s grand finale serves as a reminder of both our longing to glimpse some...
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Christmas Critics
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Elie, Paul
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28 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Paul Elie The twilight of the idols has been postponed.” This epigrammatic line opens Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God (Alfred A. Knopf, $26, 352 pp.), one...
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Christmas Critics
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Clifford, Nicholas
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30 Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Nicholas Clifford Though the disparaging acronym drawn from “Failed in London; Try Hong Kong” is applied to him by British lawyers, it actually tells us...
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Christmas Critics
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Wycliff, Don
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Don Wycliff What’s a jungle bunny like you doing in these parts?” Gore Vidal is said to have uttered that insult to Ralph Ellison in 1959, when Ellison was living in Saul Bellow’s home...
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Christmas Critics
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Rubinstein, Ernest
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Commonweal . December 7, 2007 Ernest Rubinstein My overarching reading for the past two years has been Proust. I read Remembrance of Things effaced the distinctiveness of his char- 33...
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Christmas Critics
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Storrar, William
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Commonweal . December 7, 2007 William Storrar Their stories have stayed with me, long after I stopped serving as their pastor in my native Scotlatest book, Writing in an Age of Silence...
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El Norte
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Jabusch, Willard F.
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El Norte The Last Word Willard F. Jabusch It must be difficult for someone from the deserts of Durango or the jungles of Chiapas to get used to the Windy City. While Chicago’s winds and...
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Vol. 134 Issue 022 (December 21 2007)
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