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The black gowns returned the favor. Catherine Tekakwitha, a 24-year-old Iroquois virgin who died of self-mortification in 1680, having been convinced that her animal nature was sinful and must be scourged, was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II three centuries later. So ends a chronicle in...
If anybody could find a way to solve the crisis of America's health-care system -- in which the insured get the world's most costly care and the uninsured get next to nothing -- it would be the good people of Oregon. Blessed with a long history of social-policy...
In an era when artistic discourse has tended to be nasty, brutish and short- winded, Olivier Messiaen's musical grands projects stand apart from -- and largely above -- the works of his more prosaic mid-century contemporaries. Devoutly Catholic, the French composer was blessed with a pagan sense of muscular rhythm...
Indeed, Truman represented one of the last great triumphs of old-fashioned politics, and McCullough's tome serves as a reminder of how well the system worked in the bad old days before reformers blessed the nation with openness and primaries. In one of the most vivid of this book...
Once upon a time, there was a country that had almost everything. Businesses in this blessed land often made so much money that they could afford to pay robber-baron wages to mere managers. The medical system offered first-class care to most citizens while turning physicians into millionaires. The...