Vol. 123 •
October 1996
• No. 18
Correspondence On single-issue voting, the Common Ground and tradition. . .
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HAAS, JOHN H. & DOWNING, MARTHA & STOFFT, REV. KENNETH G. & JOYCE, WILLIAM J. & GLEASON, RICHARD & BRINGS, ALLEN & Talbot, William & O'Brien, Dennis
Editorial Things left unsaid
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Death's fearful curse It's coming, so get ready
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Callahan, Sidney
Taking liberties
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Jr, David R Carlin
Whose story will win? Elections swing on the vision thing
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Callahan, David
Getting it backwards It's jobs, stupid, not the deficit
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Buell, John
THE DIGNITY OF HELPLESSNESS From the handicapped children of Nairobi to his grandmother's deathbed, our author discovers something precious in human frailty and even suffering
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Cooper, Rand Richards
Mortality
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Kacian, Jim
'DON'T LOOK BACK' Lessons from a woman of the Plains
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Loxterkamp, David
Our Lady of Providence
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Oberg, Robert J
Entertaining Angels Dorothy Day appears on our cover in a sculpture by Charles Wells In a film about her life, she's missing
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Alleva, Richard
Genesis II J, E, and P are the missing characters in PBS's otherwise enlightening look at the Bible
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McConnell, Frank
The Oxford History of the Prison edited by Norval Morris and David J Rothman
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Morris, Charles R
Seeing and Believing by Margaret R Miles Sin and Censorship by Frank Walsh
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Garvey, Michael O
The Statement by Brian Moore
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Long, J V
Master Of Death by Michael Camille
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Gonzalez-Crussi, F
Haiti, History, and the Gods by Joan Dayan
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Hogan, John P
Not your momma
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Feuerherd, Peter
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