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 Vol. 140 Issue 011 (June 14 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Faith & physics, hope in Boston BACK TO GOD Regarding "Nagel's Untimely Idea" (May 17): Rather than use theism to explain consciousness, I've found it helpful to use consciousness to...
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Commonweal Online
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE SURVEY SAYS From the dotCommonwealpost “New Missal Survey Shows Most Priests Dissatisfied, ” by Rita Ferrone: The closer you get, the worse it looks. That seems to be the...
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Rotten
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From the Editors Rotten Although tax evasion is a serious crime in the United States, many of this country’s business leaders, along with some of its politicians, seem to consider tax avoidance to...
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Stepping into the Vacuum
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Steinfels, Margaret O' Brien
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COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Stepping into the Vacuum KENNETH FEINBERG'S NEXT CHALLENGE Washington, D.C., has been worse than it is now, more chaotic and shameless: in addition to the...
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The Paradox of Proliferation
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Pfaff, William
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SHORT TAKES William Pfaff The Paradox of Proliferation WHY NUKES ARE OF NO REAL USE TO NORTH KOREA No one was surprised when North Korea’s new supreme leader threatened to use nuclear weapons...
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Reckless Ardor
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Rieff, David
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David Rieff Reckless Ardor YESTERDAY IRAQ, TODAY SYRIA The great American journalist Murray Kempton once wrote that the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini demonstrated the iron rule that, in...
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The Four Pietàs of Michelangelo
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White, Claire Nicolas
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THE FOUR PIETÀS OF MICHELANGELO With her left hand she says, “See this masterpiece they’ve given me then taken it away again. They even call him Son of Man as if I had no claim on Him. He slips...
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Beyond the Stalemate
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLE Beyond the Stalemate Forty Years after 'Roe Peter Steinfels In January we were amply reminded by marches, protests, editorials, op-ed screeds, and TV sound bites that it has been forty...
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The Great Gatsby
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Roaring Mad 'THE GREAT GATSBY' When I heard that Baz Luhrmann was filming The Great Gatsby, I gagged. Sure, the Australian director’s feature debut, Strictly Ballroom, was...
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On Politics
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Pippenger, Nathan
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BOOKS Nathan Pippenger A Long Way from Athens On Politics A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present Alan Ryan Liveright, $75, 1,152 pp. Who would undertake to write a...
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Through the Eye of a Needle
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Young, Robin Darling
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Robin Darling Young Quiet Revolution Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD Peter Brown Princeton University Press, $39.95,...
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Dignity
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Girgis, Sherif
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Sherif Girgis A Useless Concept? Dignity Its History and Meaning Michael Rosen Havard University Press, $21.95, 200 pp. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights invokes it. So do the Geneva...
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The Eve of Destruction
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Williams, Conor
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Conor Williams Pride Before a Fall The Eve of Destruction James T. Patterson Basic Books, $28.99, 344 pp. Political liberals may find comfort in the disarray of today’s Republican Party. But it...
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Service Entrance
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Byron, William J.
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THE LAST WORD Service Entrance William J. Byron Long after his political career had ended, the unsuccessful presidential candidate George Romney, father of the unsuccessful Republican candidate...
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