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 Vol. 138 Issue 021 (December 2 2011)
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 Letters
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LETTERS The new Roman Missal: What it does & fails to do IN PLAIN ENGLISH After reading Fr. Nonomen's column "Missal Defense" (November 4), I encountered the following example of defending the...
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Verdicts
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VERDICTS THE INSIDER From the post "Clerical Culture and the Abuse Crisis," by Rita Ferrone: The sexual-abuse crisis has made many of us realize that there is something very wrong in the way the...
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Below the Law?
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From the Editors Below the Law? Should the president of the United States be able to authorize the assassination of a U.S. citizen anywhere in the world without telling the public why—or even...
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Peeling the Onion
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Peeling the Onion NO TEARS FOR STUDENTS ON CAPITOL HILL There were howls of protest when the Onion, our nation's preeminent satirical newspaper, ran a story...
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The 1-percent Problem
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Pfaff, William
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William Pfaff The 1-percent Problem HOW AMERICANS CAN SAVE THEMSELVES FROM PLUTOCRACY The theme of most political and social commentary is that things are more complicated than you think. For...
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When Is Self-interest Moral?
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Finn, Daniel K.
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SHORT TAKE DanielK. Finn When Is Self-interest Moral? A GAP IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING Lutheran bishop Peter Rogness recently decried our national loss of awareness that government is...
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The Boxwood Hedge
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Porter, Anne
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THE BOXWOOD HEDGE Two hundred years ago A schooner with a cargo Of Polish swans And English boxwood bushes Was bound for New York Harbor When it was shipwrecked in a storm Just off Long...
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A Seaside Autumn
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Porter, Anne
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A SEASIDE AUTUMN Children are back on the playground At Our Lady of Ostrabrama Filling the air with a babble Like that of a hundred birds Asters and goldenrod appear All over town Wherever earth...
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The Journalist as Theologian
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Higgins, Michael W.
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ARTICLE The Journalist as Theologian A Tribute to Gregory Baum Michael W. Higgins Their number is not legion, and it continues to dwindle. The few remaining Second Vatican Council Fathers alive...
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Margin Call
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN Rand Richards Cooper Dead Men Walking 'MARGIN CALL' Last year, at a college reunion, I attended a panel on the financial meltdown featuring three classmates with long careers on Wall...
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Journey of the Universe
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Wren, Celia
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TELEVISION Celia Wren Eyeopener 'JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE' ON PBS Painted stars splay across the ceiling of an old Greek church. A flower blooms in slow motion. Tree roots twine serenely round...
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Christmas Critics
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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Christmas Critics Bernard Bergonzi The editor suggested writing about books published in the past ten years, though he would tolerate a reference to something older. Taking full advantage of this...
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Finn, Molly
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Molly Finn A friend and I fell into conversation about what kind of writing interests us the most. I've tossed this question around in my mind from time to time, but I found it surprisingly hard to...
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Kiely, Robert
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Robert Kiely We all need some cheer and beauty in our lives. Two stunningly beautiful "coffee-table books" that deserve to be taken from the table and actually read and pored over are Italian...
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Johnston, Paul
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Paul Johnston My reading this year has been the usual hodgepodge of old and new, fiction and nonaction, prose and poetry. In the old category is Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness (Loyola...
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Christmas Critics
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Nussbaum, Mary Margaret
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Mary Margaret Nussbaum In 1996, Sherry Turkle, a professor of social studies in science at MIT, met with colleagues who "carried computers and radio transmitters in their backpacks and keyboards in...
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Christmas Critics
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Martin, James
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James Martin heap is good," a Jesuit friend 1 likes to say, "but free is better." Readers on limited budgets know that buying new books is a challenge. So my Christmas suggestions include two...
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God-Fearing and Free
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Domestico Fantasies of Innocence God-Fearing and Free A Spiritual History of America's Cold War Jason W. Stevens Harvard University Press, $39.95, 448 pp. Karl Barth memorably...
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The Believing Brain
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Bottum, Joseph
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Joseph Bottum Science Fictions The Believing Brain From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths Michael Shermer Times Books, $28, 400...
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The House That George Built
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Gault, Barry
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Barry Gault Last Dance The House That George Built Wilfrid Sheed Random House, $11.95, 335 pp. On October 24, 1937, Cole Porter was riding with Countess Edith di Zoppola and Duke de Verdura at...
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No Thanks
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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the last word No Thanks Jeffrey Meyers As a biographer, I believe the true and legitimate purpose of acknowledgments is to thank those who helped me: people who were interviewed, and sent...
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Vol. 138 Issue 022 (December 16 2011)
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