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October 5, 2009

Vol. 201 / No. 8

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Books
Bill WilliamsOctober 05, 2009

Genocide has claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives in recent decades In his ambitious new book Tracy Kidder the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer takes readers into the heart of that awful chapter in human history through the eyes of a Burundian medical student named Deogratias mdash known

Books
Richard M. GulaOctober 05, 2009

Respect human dignity rdquo is a common imperative in ethics yet this imperative is filled with ambiguity On the one hand we say that strong paternalism violates the dignity of the patient On the other hand we say that nothing we do can ever deprive another person of their dignity Can we have

Television
Terrance KleinOctober 05, 2009

Like Flannery O'Connor, “Mad Men” radically resets a situation so that viewers see themselves from a previously unknown vantage point.

Poetry
Ethel PochockiOctober 05, 2009

he came

The Word
Barbara E. ReidOctober 05, 2009

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 11, 2009

Columns
Maryann Cusimano LoveOctober 05, 2009

Are we serving the poor as they seek to educate themselves?

Current Comment
The EditorsOctober 05, 2009

Natural Treasures at Risk; Norman Borlaug, RIP