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 Vol. 136 Issue 021 (December 4 2009)
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Vol. 136 Issue 022 (December 18 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters The future of Catholic tradition & more FAITH KEPT I found the discussion among the editors in the eighty-fifth-anniversary issue (“Keeping the Faith,” November 6) both heartwarming...
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors Obama’s Surge After three months of careful deliberation, President Barack Obama announced his strategy for bringing the eight-year-long war in Afghanistan “to a...
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COMMENT
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Comment BUSINESS AS USUAL? “I am sorry that there has been no opportunity to alert you earlier to this,” the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wrote in an October 20 letter to...
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A Modest Miracle
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Columnists Charles R. Morris A Modest Miracle HEALTH-CARE REFORM COULD HAPPEN AT LAST The stars may—just—be aligned to squeeze a national health-care bill out of Congress within...
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The Buck Starts Here
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Pfaff, William
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Columnists William Pfaff The Buck Starts Here PAYBACK TIME FOR THE ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ It seems plausible that payback time has arrived for the international financial...
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Democracy Undone
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Quigley, Tom
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Short Takes Tom Quigley Democracy Undone THE U.S. & THE HONDURAN MESS Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere—a land, it has been said, where even the rich...
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Unlikely Prophets
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Ryan, Jerry
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Short Takes Jerry Ryan Unlikely Prophets HOW A MOTLEY CREW OF FRENCH CATHOLICS INSPIRED VATICAN II The years just before and after World War II saw breakthroughs in theology that had...
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Misery Will Never End
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Sulivan, Jean
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Fiction Misery Will Never End Jean Sulivan He was buried in January, in an icy fog, at eight in the morning—about the time when they shoot those condemned to death. There were quite a...
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A Christmas Carol Precious
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard Alleva Transformers ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ & ‘PRECIOUS’ Jim Carrey as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol done in 3-D and motion-capture animation? I bah-humbugged on the way...
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Scenes from a Parish
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Wren, Celia
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Media Celia Wren Feeding the Multitudes ‘SCENES FROM A PARISH’ Your eyes and ears tell you that Scenes from a Parish is a documentary. So does a source that might be more reliable:...
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Easy
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Joseph, Lawrence
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Books Lawrence Joseph Between Silence & Sound Easy Marie Ponsot Alfred A. Knopf, $26, 82 pp. The poet Marie Ponsot has always written at the top of her talent, which is at the top...
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City of Belief
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Sayers, Valerie
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Books Valerie Sayers Displaced Souls City of Belief Nicole d’Entremont Fox Print Books, $16, 242 pp. Throughout the twentieth century, lively American fiction writers with a...
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The Making of Pro-life Activists
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Cere, Daniel
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Books Daniel Cere Converts to a Cause The Making of Pro-life Activists How Social Movement Mobilization Works Ziad W. Munson University of Chicago Press, $22.50, 248 pp. A doctor...
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The Murmur of Elders
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Langhans, Margaret
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Poetry The Murmur of Elders From their bed at the back of the house, the murmur of elders, Grandpa and Grandma reciting the rosary together. He the first half, then her chant-like...
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Noel Provencal
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Alech, Alice
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The last Word Noël Provençal Alice Alech Christmas in Provence is a spectacular affair. Lights and decorations go up as early as the end of November for the saision des fêtes. In...
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