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 Vol. 136 Issue 011 (June 5 2009)
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Vol. 136 Issue 012 (June 19 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters Sex abuse, pacifism, theodicy & Cuba 'MYSTERIUM INIQUITAS' Robert Nugent's article "Meeting a 'Monster'" (May 22) is both disturbing and challenging. I have occasionally...
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EDITORIAL: Episcopal Vacancy
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From the Editors Episcopal Vacancy The U.S. Catholic bishops, who meet June 17-20 in San Antonio, must find a way to inspire as well as to lead an increasingly polarized and...
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Rules Are Not Enough
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Columnist Cathleen Kaveny Rules Are Not Enough WHY JUDGES NEED EMPATHY When President Barack Obama said he judged "empathy" to be a desirable quality in a Supreme Court appointee, he set...
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A Slow Death
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Bole, William
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Short Takes William Bole A Slow Death CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HANGS ON On January 17, 1977, spree killer Gary Gilmore was taken to an abandoned cannery behind the state prison in Utah. Strapped...
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Need
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Harrison, Anna
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Need The dead woman whom I adore keeps her distance. If the separation is temporary, I do not mind it. I could use the break. Her appetite was voracious. My cannibal, caught in death's maw,...
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Disgrace
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Peppard, Michael
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Michael Peppard Disgrace A NEW REPORT DETAILS RELIGIOUS ABUSE AT GUANTANAMO Last winter, I wrote for these pages about reports of religious abuse at Guant namo ("The Secret Weapon," December...
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The Wall Street Meltdown
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Weiser, John W.
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Articles The Wall Street Meltdown A Tragedy in Three Acts John W. Weiser The catastrophic collapse in our financial system was a morality play in three acts. It reminds us why the Bible...
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Four Poems
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Menashe, Samuel
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Four Poems by Samuel Menashe May In May wonders Without numberLilacs for oneThrive in the sun His Face The face of my friend Telling of his father Who died too soon In the...
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Northern Light
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Seltzer, Marc I.; Schreiber, Leslie
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Northern Light What Canada Can Teach Us About Banking Marc I. Seltzer & Leslie Schreiber Amid the greatest worldwide financial meltdown since the Great Depression, there have been few...
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Tyson
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard Alleva Tempered Iron 'TYSON' Note to the reader: This review was written before the terrible accident that ended the life of Mike Tyson's young daughter. I'm letting the...
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The Marriage-Go-Round
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Cere, Daniel
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Books Daniel Cere For Better & for Worse The Marriage-Go-Round The State of Marriage and Family in America Today Andrew J. Cherlin Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 288 pp. Andrew Cherlin, a...
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The Monstrosity of Christ
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Griffiths, Paul
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Paul J. Griffiths Either/Or The Monstrosity of Christ Paradox or Dialectic? Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank Edited by Creston Davis The MIT Press, $27.95, 306 pp. Serious thought about...
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The Future of Liberalism
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Mattson, Kevin
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Kevin Mattson Up from Conservatism The Future of Liberalism Alan Wolfe Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 335 pp. messiah.edu T here is a poignant account of the sociologist Richard...
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Summer Reading
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O'Connor, Lauretta
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Summer Reading Lauretta O'Connor Have you ever gone across the sea to Ireland? I have not, but friends who have made the crossing many times insist that Pete McCarthy's McCarthy's Bar (St....
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Summer Reading
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Luchs, Kurt
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Kurt Luchs "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" is the title of one of Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings. It's also a concise description of cosmology, which is...
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Summer Reading
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Heim, David
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David Heim I recently discovered Tim Gautreaux's moving, funny stories about hardscrabble life in Louisiana, Welding with Children (Picador, $14, 224 pp.) and Same Place, Same Things...
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Summer Reading
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Benevenia, Nicole
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Nicole Benevenia When I was younger, I always had grand ambitions to read serious literature during the summer. These generally fizzled out by the Fourth of July. The summer I was seventeen,...
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Riding with Abdul
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Thornton, Christopher
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The Last Word Riding with Abdul Christopher Thornton Heat waves rise from the sunburnt landscape as I rest in the shade of a stone column. I am in the Syrian countryside, walking in the...
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