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 Vol. 134 Issue 021 (December 7 2007)
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Vol. 134 Issue 022 (December 21 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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MORE, ALBERT C. PIERCE, (DEACON) MIKE EVANS, DAVID E. PASINSKI, JAMES C. HARRINGTON, JOHN BLAKE
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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
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The Gift of Hope From the Editors Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, Spe salvi (In Hope We Are Saved), is a thirteen-thousand-word meditation that offers new insight and inspiration on...
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Surge & Dodge
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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Columnist Surge & Dodge E. J. Dionne Jr. THE PRESIDENT’S FISCAL MESS It’s time we subject the Iraq war to the same cost-benefit analysis we are called on to impose on other...
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Housing the Homeless
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Neugeboren, Jay
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Housing the Homeless Jay Neugeboren A PROGRAM THAT WORKS For the past dozen years, Pathways to Housing, a New York City nonprofit organization, has been helping to reduce the problem of...
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Take & Read
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Bordwell, Julian Green translated by Harold
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Commonweal . December 21, 2007 8 tronizing hoops. And, the Puritan ethic being forever at work, a client falling off the wagon or going into detox or jail invariably faces the loss of his or...
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The Mary We Never Knew
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Cunneen, Sally
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Article New Light from the Syrian Tradition Sally Cunneen It’s hard to maintain the spirit of antici- ty-five years Syriac texts have been introduced to Englishspeaking audiences thanks to...
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New Year
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Mullins, Terence Y.
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12 Commonweal . December 21, 2007 New Year The press of ice expanding wraps around Epiphany. When nature thus resumes its parabolic jest, sealed laughter blooms with uncontrolled response....
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No Country for Old Men
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen The Haunting Richard Alleva ‘NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN’ Sometimes the real auteur of a movie is the author of the novel it’s based on. For instance, John Huston’s triumphant 1941...
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Rock 'n' Roll
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Wren, Celia
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Stage The Revolution Will Be Amplified Celia Wren TOM STOPPARD’S ‘ROCK ’N’ ROLL’ It’s odd to imagine Tom Stoppard as a fan of classic rock. Post-Romantic orchestral works, or maybe...
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The Idea That Is America:Security First
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Powell, Leslie
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What Now? Leslie Powell The Idea That Is America Anne-Marie Slaughter Basic Books, $25.95, 250 pp. Security First Amitai Etzioni Yale University Press, $27, 336 pp. Iattended a...
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Equality and the Family
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Vischer, Robert K.
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eign-policy directive based on the primacy of life. Without basic security, he justifiably claims, no one person or nation has the luxury of considering higher-order values such as democracy...
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The Abstinence Teacher
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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20 Commonweal . December 21, 2007 respect, his arguments are heavily indebted to the work of Thomas Aquinas, who recognized the natural inclination of human beings “to exert special energy...
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Primates and Philosophers:Our Inner Ape
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Pettit, Joe
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Bonobo Business Joe Pettit Primates and Philosophers How Morality Evolved Frans de Waal Princeton University Press, $22.95, 230 pp. Our Inner Ape A Leading Primatologist Explains Why...
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Index to Volume CXXXIV
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26 Commonweal . December 21, 2007 Index to Volume CXXXIV Articles and Poetry Anderson, Kathleen ........................................The Reunion Appleby, R. Scott...
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House of Bread
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Imbelli, Robert P.
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House of Bread The Last Word Robert P. Imbelli Every fall, at the beginning of my undergraduate course “Exploring Catholicism,” I ask students to compose a religious self-portrait. I...
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