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I should begin this article with a confession. Sometimes, when my reading list subjects me to the dense texts of Marx's Capital or Weber's Economy and Society: Part One, I turn to the culture of the American teenage youth for salvation and sanity. Always trying to maintain a...
It's probably the most easy-to-understand piece ever to grace the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine. There in Thursday's edition of the venerated periodical, alongside impenetrable articles on various scleroses and neuroses, was a full-page confession by the publication's editorial staff. The...
Which returns us to Catholicism. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 set off what religion futurist Richard Cimino calls "an explosion of lay ministry." This, plus a persistent priest shortage, caused some parishes to approximate a female pastorate. Circuit-riding priests would stop by a church to celebrate Communion...
Suddenly, with the victory of John McCain last week, spin is out and candor is in. In the course of 114 town meetings in New Hampshire, McCain was asked a thousand questions and dodged none. The Senator released every medical record, herpetic lesions and all. The breakup of his first...
Physical comedy was the order of the day in Loot, and particularly rib-tickling was Fay's confession to the murder of Mrs. McLeavy, with melodrama and cheesy music in full gear, and the sorrowful admission that "Euthanasia was against my religion. So I murdered her." Of course, Orton himself...