Vol. 124 •
March 1997
• No. 6
Correspondence Commonweal's quest for a home and cheaper paper; sanctions in Iraq; Islam and patriarchy; feminism explored anew
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FEIT, CHUCK & AUDETTE, GENE & MAHONEY, JOHN F. & BEEZAT, ROBERT & ESPOSITO, JOHN L. & QUINN, MARY LOU & DELLMAN-ANDERSEN, CAROL & Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Editorial Cloning isn't sexy
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
The mystery remains Scientists need not be tone deaf to the mystery of life It's time to think before we clone
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Garvey, John
Riordan & Hayden
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Jr, John L Allen
A 'NECESSARY' OF MODERN LIFE? College has always been expensive and it is unlikely to get cheaper in the near future But only since the G I Bill has it come to be a "necessary" Can this go on?
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O'Brien, Dennis
Kids Get the Day off from School
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Winters, Mary
A VOCATION FOR CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION? Can Catholic colleges combine compassion for the poor with a disinterested search for the truth? They should
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Pope, Stephen J
MAKING COLLEGES CATHOLIC Flash! Bishops and educators agree!
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Gallin, Alice
Hamlet Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet will flatten you in several different and not entirely unpleasant ways
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Alleva, Richard
The Power to Harm by John Cornwell
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Coles, Robert
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George Marsden
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Allen, Diogenes
Reading Jazz edited by Robert Gottlieb
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McConnell, Frank
Consciousness and the Mind of God by Charles Taliaferro
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Liddy, Richard M
The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
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Bankston, Carl L III
Text & context
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Shaw, Kurt
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