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Vol. 141 Issue 019 (December 5 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Deciding how we die
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letters Deciding how we die Gerald Coleman and Margaret McLean, in their article "As We Lie Dying" (September 12), make some excellent points about Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment...
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Hearing Cardinal Burke
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From the Editors Hearing Cardinal Burke Schadenfreude can be a grave temptation and, if not resisted, a serious sin. There are some, both inside and outside the church, who have taken a certain...
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Don't Beatify Us
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McGowan, Jo
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COLUMNIST Jo McGowan Don’t Beatify Us WHAT PARENTS OF THE DISABLED REALLY NEED It’s a strange time for people with disabilities. Among the general public in most developed countries, there is...
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Understanding Scarcity
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Finn, Daniel K.
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SHORT TAKE Daniel K. Finn Understanding Scarcity HOW BEING POOR IS LIKE BEING TOO BUSY Mainstream economics is famous for its assumption that people are rational maximizers, acting in their own...
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'I Want to Be a Sister'
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Garvey, Helen Maher
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ARTICLE ‘I Want to Be a Sister’ A Life in Religious Community Helen Maher Garvey It was the spring of 1941, in the quaint village of Hempstead, Long Island. The Great Depression had darkened the...
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Par Rum Pum Pum Pum
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Lynch, Thomas
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PAR RUM PUM PUM PUM The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master’s crib. Isaiah 1:3 The erstwhile holy father in a book on the infancy of Jesus, Christ the Lord, debunked the angels we have...
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Listen Up Philip
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Insufferable 'LISTEN UP PHILIP' Sometimes rave reviews of dreadful movies seem like a conspiracy to lure you into the theater and force you to endure the same misery...
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Christmas Critics
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McMillan, Priscilla
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BOOKS Christmas Critics Priscilla McMillan Current tensions between Russia and the West have struck echoes of the Cold War, reminding us both how distant the era has become and how substantially...
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Christmas Critics
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Walsh, Michael
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Michael Walsh Back in rather less fraught days in the Middle East—1994 to be precise—William Dalrym-ple journeyed from Athos to Egypt in the footsteps of the sixth-century monk John Moschos. The...
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Christmas Critics
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Redden, Molly
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Molly Redden I’m betting that Americanah (Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 477 pp.), the discomfiting and captivating 2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is already in the stack of books you plan to...
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Christmas Critics
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Lakeland, Paul
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Paul Lakeland I think a lot of us turn to reading old favorites around Christmastime, maybe a volume of Dickens or P. G. Wodehouse, though I do know one person who goes a-wassail-ing with Karl...
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Christmas Critics
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Fassler, Joe; FASSLER, MARGOT E.
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Joe Fassler & Margot E. Fassler In his poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Walt Whitman took comfort in what he called “the certainty of others”—his faith that subsequent generations would see what he...
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Christmas Critics
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Rowland, Ingrid
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Ingrid Rowland In 1953, the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities and Senator Joseph McCarthy were already well into their notorious crusade against Communists and alleged Communists in...
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Last Leap
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DeSanctis, Michael E.
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THE LAST WORD The Last Leap Michael E. DeSanctis Years ago, when my kids were hardly more than babies, we'd play a game together called "Trust Daddy." The rules were simple. Climbing to the...
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Vol. 141 Issue 020 (December 19 2014)
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