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 Vol. 136 Issue 017 (October 9 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters Feminism explained; achievements sung WHAT BRAND OF FEMINISM? Kathleen Sprows Cummings has written a very entertaining essay on the tensions and compatibilities between...
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors One in Six When Norman Borlaug died last month at the age of ninety-five, the Economist called the NorwegianAmerican plant pathologist the “feeder of the...
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A Package Deal
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Garvey, John
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Columnist John Garvey A Package Deal A FRIEND’S APPETITE FOR LIFE—ALL OF IT As an Orthodox parish priest I’ve seen lots of deaths. The hardest was the death of a two-year-old. Older...
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Cross Examination
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X, Sister
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Articles Cross Examination Why Is Rome Investigating U.S. Nuns? Sister X I have been a religious sister for more than thirty years, part of a community that has been active in this...
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Vulture and Cat
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Cadnum, Michael
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Two Poems by Michael Cadnum Vulture How he lays its body on the sky and looks on high so graceful we want him to be a goshawk or a falcon, anything but what he really is. When we stir to...
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America's Blind Spot
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Callahan, Daniel
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America’s Blind Spot Health Care & the Common Good Daniel Callahan The concept of the common good, ancient in origin, would seem on the face of it an ideal foundation for health-care reform....
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Alchemy, Shelling and Eleventh
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Lynch, Thomas
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Three Poems by Thomas Lynch Alchemy for Mike & Marilyn Kinna After everything it’s like the tune we keep humming over and over mostly for how it makes us remember somewhere back in our...
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Something Freely Given
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Visser, Margaret
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Something Freely Given On the Nature of Gratitude Margaret Visser The simple habit of saying “thank you,” and the notion of gratitude that underlies it, can be a key to understanding many of...
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Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty
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Vischer, Robert K.
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Books Robert K. Vischer Incompatible Freedoms? Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Emerging Conflicts Edited by Doug Laycock, Anthony Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson Rowman...
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A Jury of Her Peers
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Matthes, Mellissa
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Melissa Matthes Sequestered No More A Jury of Her Peers American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Elaine Showalter Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 608 pp. Who are your peers? Or,...
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The Book of William
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren Conceits & Ribaldries Included The Book of William How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World Paul Collins Bloomsbury USA, $25, 288 pp. Twitter is altering the way we...
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A Great Idea at the Time
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Schwendener, Peter
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Peter Schwendener Unread White Males A Great Idea at the Time The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books Alex Beam PublicAffairs, $24.95, 256 pp. When Henry James wrote,...
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Assessing Blame
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Starrels, John
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John Starrels Assessing Blame Human Smoke The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, $16, 576 pp. Refugees and Rescue The Diaries and...
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Irena
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Henry, Patrick
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The Last Word Irena Patrick Henry When she first moved into our neighborhood in Flushing, New York, in November 1954, with her husband and two young sons, Irena quickly became known as...
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Vol. 136 Issue 018 (October 23 2009)
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