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 Vol. 139 Issue 021 (December 7 2012)
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Vol. 139 Issue 022 (December 21 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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letters Libertarianism & liberty RAND SLAM I write not as an expert on Catholic social teaching, but as a political theorist. I'm profoundly pleased with what I've read in Commonweal of late,...
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Obama & Drones
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From the Editors Obama & Drones It is no secret that President Barack Obama has conducted a very aggressive—and by many measures effective— campaign of targeted killings against Al Qaeda and the...
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Flesh Wounds
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Garvey, John
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COLUMNISTS John Garvey Flesh Wounds GOBSMACKED BY THE INCARNATION All the suffering we have seen recently—the dead Palestinian children, the casualties of civil war in Syria and the Congo, and...
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Better, Cheaper, Easier
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles Morris Better, Cheaper, Easier WHY WE'RE SPENDING MORE ON HEALTH CARE In a recent article in these pages ("Boom Times Ahead," September 14), I wrote about the positive impact of the...
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It's Time
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Zagano, Phyllis
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SHORT TAKE Phyllis Zagano It's Time THE CASE FOR WOMEN DEACONS In 2010, parishioners of St. Nicholas Parish in suburban Chicago met to discuss the diaconate. A parishioner had expressed a desire...
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Nine Christmas Trees
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Kealey, Edward J.
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ARTICLES Nine Christmas Trees Edward J. Kealey We always had really tall Christmas trees at home—so tall they usually reached right to the living-room ceiling of our family's house in the Fresh...
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Quilt
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Sternlieb, Barry
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QUILT Here is a geography with no place for distance, a love that seams complete in the scheme of purpose, a declaration of dependence between mother and daughter, embedded in cloth, sensed from...
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A Long Journey
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Kiely, Robert
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A Long Journey Imagining the Magi Robert Kiely In the Gospel of Matthew, "wise men (magi) from the East" come to Jerusalem after the birth of Christ, asking, "Where is he who has been born king...
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Two Poems
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Christie, A. V.
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Two Poems by A. V. Christie GARDEN ESSAI In all modesty you moved the painted fern nearer. You trusted the work, trusted the nature of the desire. It wasn't ego. Afternoons were haze and...
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A Transplanted Faith
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Young, Julia G.
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A Transplanted Faith Catholicism in Latin America Julia G. Young The Catholic Church's greatest evangelizing project began on January 6, 1494. On that date—the Feast of the Epiphany—a few...
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Lincoln
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva The Closer 'LINCOLN' In the foreground of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is the thrust and parry of politics—powerful men competing to control the conclusion and aftermath of...
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Behind The Beautiful Forevers
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Murtaugh, Daniel M.
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BOOKS Daniel M. Murtaugh Two Years in 'Slumbai' Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Random House, $27, 256 pp. In the years leading up to...
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Telegraph Avenue
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Dominic Preziosi Top of the Pops Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Harper, $27.99, 480 pp. Novelist Michael Chabon is a devoted trafficker in pop-culture artifacts. From his earliest fiction, he...
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Baby Steps
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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THE LAST WORD Baby Steps Mollie Wilson O'Reilly My fifteen-month-old son's favorite game is "run into Mommy's room and grab things out of her nightstand before she catches me." As soon as I set...
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