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Vol. 139 Issue 014 (August 17 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS A wide tradition John R. Donahue's "Cup or Chalice?" (June 1) points out one of many places where the new translation follows the Latin, rather than the underlying Greek or Hebrew....
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Don't Ask, Won't Tell
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From the Editors Don't Ask, Won't Tell President Barack Obama and his supporters, along with many Republicans, have called on Mitt Rom-ney to release more of his tax returns. Romney has put out a...
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Hawk Talk
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Hawk Talk ROMNEY'S CONFRONTATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY On July 25 Mitt Romney took his presidential campaign abroad, as candidate Obama did in 2008. Such tours,...
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Care Package
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Sheridan, Wayne
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SHORT TAKES Wayne Sheridan Care Package CAN CATHOLIC & SECULAR HOSPITALS MERGE? In current battles between church and state about health care and health insurance, it is often the poor and...
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Benedict Goes to Cuba
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Quigley, Tom
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Tom Quigley Benedict Goes to Cuba ANOTHER CASTRO, ANOTHER POPE When Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba at the end of March, much of the limited coverage the trip received in the United States came...
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Inward Bound
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Hehir, J. Bryan
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ELECTION 2012 J. Bryan Hehir Inward Bound FOREIGN POLICY IN A TIME OF AUSTERITY Writing about foreign policy in the 2012 election means traveling second class, or even in steerage. To assess the...
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After Hopkins
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Krieg, Brandon
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After Hopkins Indivisible I divine in leaf's veins, lung's blood, floodplain and feathered cloud, where the all ails, avail. We've summoned by reduction the valenced none, digressed, through...
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What We've Learned
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLES What We've Learned Confronting Sexual Abuse, Then & Now Peter Steinfels In the summer of 1958, when I turned seventeen, I discovered and reported a case of an adult sexually abusing...
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Out at the Root
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Krieg, Brandon
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Out At The Root Shore pine on the sea cliff, perennial axletree on which stars wheel—waves of the highest high tide have half-unearthed its hold. The intricate rootwork that like sight of the...
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The Stakes
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Madrick, Jeff
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The Stakes The Most Important Election Since 1932? Jeff Madrick You don't have to be a Republican to consider Barack Obama a less-than-ideal president. Indeed, disappointment with the president...
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Ever Ancient, Ever New
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Connell, Martin F.
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Ever Ancient, Ever New Finding God's Love in Unexpected Places Martin F. Connell Referring to God's love, a college theology teacher of mine once used the Latin phrase prorsus indebitum,...
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Surface Tensions
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Luanaigh, Erin O'
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ART Erin O'Luanaigh Surface Tensions EDOUARD VUILLARD AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM For a generously bearded, self-styled "prophet" of Paris's Belle Epoque, Edouard Vuillard has a disappointingly...
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Why Have Children?
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Kane, Francis
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BOOKS Francis Kane Is Love a Babe? Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate Christine Overall The MIT Press, $27.95, 272 pp. St. Augustine famously said that he understood what time was until...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
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Brownstein, Gabriel
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Gabriel Brownstein High Shtick What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander Knopf, $24.95, 207 pp. The title of Nathan Englander's powerful new collection of stories, What...
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War and the American Difference
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Werpehowski, William
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William Werpehowski Our Bloody Altar War and the American Difference Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity Stanley Hauerwas Baker Academic, $19.99, 208 pp. Throughout an...
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James Joyce
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Meyers Unlucky Jim James Joyce A New Biography Gordon Bowker Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35, 608 pp. James Joyce (1882-1941) had a feckless father, a long-suffering mother, and ten...
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Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Domestico 'Year 1 p.s.U.' Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914 Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot Stephen Sicari University of South Carolina Press, $59.95, 248 pp. Ezra Pound was a...
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Water
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Jordan, Patrick
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Patrick Jordan The Big Thirst Water Asia's New Battle Ground Brahma Chellaney Georgetown University Press, $29.95, 384 pp. Water has no substitute. With that maxim, Brahma Chellaney begins his...
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Bad Samaritan
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Emerson, Matt
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THE LAST WORD Bad Samaritan Matt Emerson In June 2010, I made a stop in Boston to meet a friend for lunch. We had planned to eat at a swanky bistro with a view of the Atlantic and, in the...
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