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 Vol. 139 Issue 001 (January 13 2012)
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Vol. 139 Issue 002 (January 27 2012)
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 Letters
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LETTERS Managing the dynamo; abortion; anti-Semitism on the prairie QUESTIONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS David O'Brien laments that Andrew Bacevich "has unfortunately accepted from theologian Michael...
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Notebook: Deo Gratias
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Jordan, Patrick
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NOTEBOOK PatrickJordan Deo Gratias A LAST WORD Dear Commonweal readers: I am retiring after twenty-eight years on the job, and the editor has invited me to use this page to bid a farewell. Over...
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Editorial: A Work in Progress
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From the Editors A Work in Progress cross the globe, from Tunisia to Burma, people are struggling to cast off tyrannical regimes. It is humbling to witness what thousands are willing to risk for a...
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE GETTING LOST From the Verdicts post "Finding Wisdom (I)," by Scott D. Moringiello: he final week of the year is a still week. The calendar counts down the days of December, and...
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Regret is not Enough
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMNIST Cathleen Kaveny Regret Is Not Enough WHY THE PRESIDENT SHOULD READ PAUL RAMSEY n late December, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense JL Authorization Act into law,...
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True Writ
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Becker, Joseph D.
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SHORT TAKE Joseph D. Becker True Writ HABEAS CORPUS, SECRET COURTS & GITMQ celebrated declaration is engraved above the portal of Langdell Hall, the central building of Harvard JL Law School:...
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Inquisitions
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Murphy, Cullen
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ARTICLES Inquisitions From Torquemada to the 'War on Terror1 Cullen Murphy n a hot fall day in Rome not long ago, I crossed the vast expanse of St. Peter's Square, paused momentarily in the...
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Nights
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Hart, Kevin
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NIGHTS Dark One, I walk the streets for half the night And see my father slide toward the grave: Look left, and death will enter from the right Or jump on you from some tremendous height No...
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Conscience & Communion
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Coriden, James A.
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Conscience & Communion What's a Remarried Catholic to Do ? James A. Coriden What should we say, amid a culture in which marriages evaporate like mist, about the sacramental status of divorced and...
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Yes
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Weber, Joseph G.
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YES In memory of Daria Donnelly The nectar you gave tasted of wild mountains Where far-flung, deep beauties drew my heart "There is so much beauty to write about," you said. The sparkling bay...
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Luck
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Wren, Celia
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TELEVISION Celia Wren Track Marks HBQ'S 'LUCK' The slam of a prison door is one of the first sounds you hear in Luck, the hyper-pedigreed new drama series that premieres on HBO on Sunday,...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Sheehan, James J.
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BOOKS James J. Sheehan Interesting if True The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker Viking, $40, 832 pp. Conquest, War, Famine, and Death—except for the last,...
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Spiritual Writings
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Gordon Marino Consider the Lilies Spiritual Writings A New Translation and Selection S0ren Kierkegaard Translated by George Pattison HarperCollins, $15.99, 298 pp. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55)...
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Friend v. Friend
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Tushnet, Eve
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Eve Tushnet Bonds of Affection Friend v. Friend The Transformation of Friendship— And What the Law Has to Do with It Ethan J. Leib Oxford University Press, $29.95, 272 pp. Does law end where...
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An Alien in a Strange Land
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Schneider, Nathan
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Nathan Schneider An Inconvenient Theology An Alien in a Strange Land Theology in the Life of William Stringfellow Anthony Dancer Cascade Books, $31, 272 pp. William Stringfellow is one of the...
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The Marriage Plot
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William H. Pritchard Deconstructed The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 406 pp. In a recent New York Times "Conver±sation" feature, the writers Jeffrey...
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Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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THE LAST WORD Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 Margaret O'Brien Steinfels I fleetingly met Vaclav Havel on June 10, 1990. It was the morning after Czechoslovakia's first free elections in decades. At...
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