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Vol. 142 Issue 006 (March 20 2015)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS Garveys grace, Boehner's chutzpah, etc. MISSED I was saddened to tears to read about John Garvey's death ("Not Ours to Mend," February 20). I have loved his writing for years—his columns...
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Smart Guy
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From the Editors Smart Guy In August 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney told an interviewer there was "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Two weeks later the New...
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Accidental Armaggedon
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dotCOMMONWEAL ACCIDENTAL ARMAGGEDON Michael Peppard "I n the event of a nuclear attack, which of these items would be the most helpful? Rank them in order of importance." That was one of the...
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Share the Wealth
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Morris, Charles
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COLUMNIST Charles Morris Share the Wealth A NEW REPORT SHOWS HOW INEQUALITY IS HURTING THE ECONOMY It's good to see ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers back in the Democratic fold. After his...
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Soft Thinking, Hard Problems
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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SHORT TAKES Andrew J. Bacevich Soft Thinking, Hard Problems THE QBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY The Obama administration's 2015 National Security Strategy (NSS), delivered...
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Why is Boko Haram Succeeding?
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Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator Why Is Boko Haram Succeeding? LETTER FROM NIGERIA Officially, the terrorist group currently conducting a violent insurgency in northeastern Nigeria goes by the title...
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Celeriac
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Sens, Jean-Mark
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CELERIAC dirty, battered face sleepy with no eyes all dream and wood inside. It fed on the dark loam its hairy sallow cheeks, wistful under ground green sprigs stemming out from its...
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From Trastevere to Texas
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Elie, Paul
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ARTICLES From Trastevere to Texas SantEgidws Campaign Against the Death Penalty Paul Elie To understand the death penalty, Mario Maraz-ziti likes to say, you have to go to Texas. In 2000 (having...
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Does Method Matter?
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Roberts, Christopher C.
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Does Method Matter? Contraception & Catholic Identity Christopher C. Roberts, Marian Crowe, Lisa Fullam Christopher C. Roberts Two years ago I wrote a letter to the editor in response to an...
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Does Method Matter?
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Crowe, Marian
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Marian Crowe The debate over the HHS contraception mandate has reminded us yet again that very few Catholics follow the church's teaching on contraception. Some people attribute this to human...
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Does Method Matter?
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Fullam, Lisa
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Lisa Fullam Birth control is a divisive issue among Catholics. On the one hand, according to a 2012 survey, 85 percent of self-identified Catholics believe either that birth control is morally...
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Mr. Turner
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Beastly Genius 'MR. TURNER' Mr. Turner is a movie about a walking oxymoron: a man-troll who plods through the streets as if he were carrying ten-pound hods on each shoulder;...
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The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
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Portier, William L.
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BOOKS William L. Portier Just a Gang of Sinners? The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis Garry Wills Viking Penguin, $27.95, 261 pp. TT e have yet to learn all the \ / \ / good...
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Diary of the Fall
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Sayers, Valerie
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Valerie Sayers Cruel Inheritance Diary of the Fall Michel Laub Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Other Press, $20, 240 pp. The nameless narrator of Diary of the Fall believes it is impossible...
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Distant Neighbors
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Knepper, Steven
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Steven Knepper Place-Based Distant Neighbors The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder Edited by Chad Wriglesworth Counterpoint Press, $30, 288 pp. In a correspondence spanning...
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Measured Pains
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Simon, Andrew
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THE LAST WORD Measured Pains Andrew Simons Easygoing by temperament, and without any desire for dramatic feats of spiritual heroism, I have always been drawn to the more relaxed spiritual...
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