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IssueVol. 134 Issue 007 (April 6 2007)
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Paid articleLETTERS
O O Founded in 1924 Commonweal Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway Production Editor & Webmaster Tiina Aleman Copy...
Paid articleEDITORIAL: What Ails Us
From the Editors What Ails Us I t pays to take your medicine, especially beforehand. That's what some employers who provide their workers with medical coverage have discovered. Groups...
Paid articleWhy People Leave the Church
Garvey, John
Columnist ~5 r.a ]ohn arvey Why People Leave the Church DON'T BLAME THE ZEITGEIST ~ We have grown used to people who have problems with "organized religion" and "the ~ J institutional...
Paid articleEaster in Technicolor
Frost, Carrie Frederick
Short Takes Carrie Frederich Frost Easter in Technicolor THE UKRANIAN CRAFT OF 'PYSANKY I O n late winter evenings in Ukraine, women huddle in front of candle flames to recreate ancient...
Paid articleDownsizing
Bacevich, Andrew J.
O 9 ster's servants encircle the globe, keeping record of the number ofpysanky made. When there are few, the monster's chains loosen, and evil flows throughout the world. When they are many,...
Paid articleThe Faith of a Doctor
Nussbaum, Abraham
The Faith of a Doctor Learning to See Beyond the Symptoms Abraham Nussbaum I'.. r t',q ,8 A s a young physician, I often struggle with how I am supposed to "see" at. aLmy patients....
Paid articleThat Stillness
Bridgford, Kim
12 That Stillness Lazarus How to explain what I do not remember? For though my body was undone in death, My spirit was there, like a holy fly in amber, Underneath my rotting burial cloth: To...
Paid articleSpring Planting
Schwed, Margaret Peters
e~ J nlf we're going to do anything, it would seem that first on our list ought to be stopping genocide,' ,411 Heard on Provoke in a conversation on what can be I done to help the people of...
Paid articleBuried Treasure
Burton, William L.
Buried Treasure Why Catholics Should Learn More about Scripture William L. Burton D oes biblical scholarship benefit the church? Such a question seems ridiculous at first glance, yet it has...
Paid articleA Book of Surprises
Karban, Roger Vermalen
school religion curricula as they had spent on debating Ex corde ecclesiae, we might be in better shape . While paying too little attention to the schools under their control--diocesan grade...
Paid articleBreach/The Lives of Others
Alleva, Richard
,g o Richard Alleva Under the Mask 'BREACH" & 'THE LIVES OF OTHERS' In Breach, playing the traitor Robert Hanssen, Chris Cooper looks and behaves like all of Graham Greene's tormented...
Paid articleThe Robert Bellah Reader
Bellah, Robert N.; Tipton, Steven M.
D. Michael Lindsay Good Habits of Mind ~8 l The Robert Bellah Reader Edited by Robert N. Bellah and Steven M. Tipton Duke University Press, $27.95,555 pp. F ew runs in American...
Paid articleMaking Globalization Work
Stiglitiz, Joseph E.
"v. ell o journals like the American Sociological Review, lamenting that "moral timidity" and methodological minutiae have become defining characteristics of what gets published in social...
Paid articleComplete Poems & Selected Letters
Crane, Hart
m r,9 affected by their deliberations, and proposes a currency reserve bank, like the one proposed by John Maynard Keynes after World War I. Such a structure, as Stiglitz envisions it, would...
Paid articleModern Liberty and the Limits of Government
Fried, Charles
Richard W. arnett Individuals First Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government Charles Fried W. W. Norton, $24.95, 224 pp. T he ancients and the modems are at it again. This time,...
Paid articleReligion Booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
Religion Booknotes Lawrence S. Cunningham enjoyment. Today, every decent-sized museum displays one or two ~ examples of those lavish medieval compendiums known as Books of Hours. With their...
Paid articleChrist in the Classroom
Martin, J. Paul
The Last Word Christ in the Classroom ~. Paul Martin E very now and again, I reflect on teaching and the relevance of the methods used by Jesus. Even without the miracles and the content...
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