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Vol. 135 Issue 003 (February 15 2008)
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LETTERS
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Founded in 1924 letters Commonweal. February 15, 2008 Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway Production...
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EDITORIAL : Bridge Closed
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From the Editors Bridge Closed
T here was a good deal of justified out-rage among Catholics, and presum-ably among all fair-minded people, when protests from faculty and students at Rome’s La...
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FAREWELL : A Man of Peace
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HOVEY, MICHAEL W.
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Commonweal. February 15, 2008 Michael W. Hovey A Man of Peace GoRDoN C. zAHN, 1918–2007 O n the night of John Leary’s funeral in Boston in August 1982, I ran into Gordon Zahn in...
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Sex & the Teenage Girl
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Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe
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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Sex & the Teenage Girl
THE iNSiGHTS oF ‘JUNo’ There’s a classic story of teen pregnancy, told in books, movies, and teen magazines over the past century. It goes...
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Justice or Vengeance
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Cathleen Kaveny Justice or Vengeance
iS THE DEATH PENALTY CRUEL & UNUSUAL? Does the three-drug cock tail used by the majority of states that impose the death penalty violate the...
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Good Reasons to Be Humble : A new foreign policy
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Slaughter, Anne-Marie
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Anne-Marie Slaughter Good Reasons to Be Humble A FoREiGN-PoLiCY AGENDA FoR THE NExT PRESiDENT I n matters of foreign policy, the next president faces a tall order in a short time. Within...
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The Suspect Corpse
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Murray, Les
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creating the E-8, but to avoid dominating the proceedings the United States should invite another country, like Canada, to host it and chair the first meeting. The second initiative would be to...
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Faith & Politics : Rethinking religion's public role
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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Faith & Politics
After the Religious Right
E. J. Dionne Jr. I t is already clear that the 2008 presiden-tial campaign will be one of the most no-table in our country’s history. But one of...
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Begotten, Not Made : The case against designer babies
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Kane, Francis
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Begotten, Not Made
The Dangers of Reproductive Technology
Francis Kane I ntheregionwhereIliveandteachonthe Eastern Shore of Maryland, the economy centers on a thriving poultry industry. On a...
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There Will Be Blood
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Thicker than Oil
‘THERE WiLL BE BLooD’ Why is it that the great char acters of fiction and drama always, finally, elude us? Hamlet, Phaedra, Charles Foster Kane,...
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Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism
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Cavanaugh, William T.
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William T. Cavanaugh Clash Course
Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism A Call to Action George Weigel Doubleday, $18.95, 195 pp. G eorge Weigel offers this book as a guide to...
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The Case against Perfection
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Lauritzen, Paul
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Paul Lauritzen cal characteristics for themselves.” But, of course, none of us chooses our genetic inheritance and so cloning does not rob Unintelligent Design a child of some bit of autonomy...
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Weimar Germany
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Sheehan, James J.
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impulse to reduce everything in the world James J. Sheehan to an object we may bend to our will and his willingness to destroy embryos in the Failed Experiment service of our medical desires. But...
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Thank you, Associates Commonweal is in its ninth decade of providing a place for reflective, progressive Catholic thought, a unique venture that has allowed a wide variety of voices to reach an...
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And thanks again... Commonweal’s College Subscription Programwasestablishedin2000,andhasenjoyed increasing support every year. Donors are asked to sponsor at least five gift subscriptions, at the...
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The Edward Skillin Society
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And thanks again... Commonweal’s College Subscription Programwasestablishedin2000,andhasenjoyed increasing support every year. Donors are asked to sponsor at least five gift subscriptions, at the...
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Beneath the Skin
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MARTIN, REGIS
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The last Word
Beneath the Skin Regis Martin A sidefromthefewfriends whose names and faces even forty-plus years cannot entirely erase, I remember almost nothing of my high school years....
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Vol. 135 Issue 004 (February 29 2008)
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