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Vol. 139 Issue 003 (February 10 2012)
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Vol. 139 Issue 004 (February 24 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS Sex & Cookies LIFE SUPPORT In "A Modus Vivendi?" (January 13), the editors of Commonweal speak impersonally, not to say a bit evasively: "There seems little chance that the teaching [of...
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Commonweal Online
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE LOOSE LiPS From the dotCommonwealpost "Titanic, Costa Concordia, and the Collapse of Western Civilization," by Eduardo Penalver: ver at the National Review Online, Mark Steyn...
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Bad Decision
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From the Editors Bad Decision The Obama administration has rejected appeals to exempt religious-affiliated institutions, such as hospitals and universities, from the mandate issued by the...
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Hocus Pocus
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles R. Morris Hocus Pocus HOW ROMNEY MADE HIS MiLLiONS Here is a classic private-equity deal. It's not one of Mitt Rom-ney's, but I use it because it has been well documented. In 2006, near...
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Capital Gains
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Capital Gains SUPER PACS PLACE THEIR BETS The full force of money, permitted by Citizens United and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions, has become clear in the...
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How Obama Lost Me
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Wycliff, Don
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Don Wycliff How Obama Lost Me AND WHY THE GOP IS SCARIER THAN EVER On January 20, the day before the South Carolina primary, the Washington Post published a long story about how political...
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One Life
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Brennan, Matthew
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ONE LIFE Once more, the aftermath: last week a line Of winds leveled our town, clear-cutting trees As old as Vigo County's oldest home; Before, we'd lost a dying, bark-scarred oak. Our other...
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Nazi Racism & the Church
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Connelly, John
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Nazi Racism & the Church How Converts Showed the Way to Resist John Connelly It sometimes seems that the controversy over Pope Pius XII and his role during the Holocaust has lasted several...
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Interpretive Dance
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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Interpretive Dance How the Brazos Biblical Commentary Falls Short Luke Timothy Johnson In 2005, a commentary on the Acts of the Apostles by Jaroslav Pelikan, the great historian of theology,...
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Now
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Lindeman, Jack
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NOW Now is ever-after for which the first was made and I keep myself adrift through a variety of poses, a little hair on the chest, a short word with an echo that can't be stopped and the muscular...
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What Are They?
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Levenson, Jon D.
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What Are They? Modernity andJewish Self-understanding Jon D. Levenson What exactly are the Jews? The question baffles the layperson and the scholar alike. If we define them as adherents to a...
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Portals of Faith
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Ryan, Patrick J.
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Patrick J. Ryan Portals of Faith ISLAMIC ART AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM The reopening, after eight years, of the Islamic galleries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has brought...
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Coriolanus
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Mama's Boy, Daddy's Girl 'CORIOLANUS' & 'THE IRON LADY' Coriolanus—that sublime numbskull, that Roman Achilles revealed as an Oedipal nut-job, that overgrown Boy Scout turned...
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The Vices
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Brownstein, Gabriel
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Gabriel Brownstein Overboard The Vices Lawrence Douglas Other Press, $15.95, 352 pp. L On July 18, 200—, at 18:00 GMT, the Queen Mary 2 left Southampton with 2,912 passengers and roughly half...
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Remedy and Reaction
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Gusmano, Michael K.
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Michael K. Gusmano Breakthrough or Impasse? Remedy and Reaction The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform Paul Starr Yale University Press, $28.50, 336 pp. In the century prior to...
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The Greater Journey
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Dufresne, Bethe
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Bethe Dufresne French Lessons The Greater Journey Americans in Paris David McCullough Simon & Schuster, $37.50, 558 pp. On screen and in print, Paris is much in vogue these days. Midnight in...
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Dry Season
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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THE LAST WORD Dry Season Lawrence S. Cunningham Behind the forty-day preparation for Easter known as Lent (the word actually means "springtime") is the image of the desert. The Bible describes...
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