| April 10th, 2003 Do Catholics need a Money Makeover? Recently, I was talking with a group of socially conscious Catholic friends about money. The question came up, "How does being Catholic influence how we think about money?"Our answers were revealing.The bummer of bucks One mentioned ... |
| April 9th, 2003 The Dull Ache of Addiction in Owning Mahowny It's the early 1980's. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dan Mahowny, a Toronto bank manager whose body is as soft and slow as his mind is sharp and quick. Mahowny moves ... |
| April 9th, 2003 Mister Rogers Helped Us All to Grow Up I was talking with my wife recently about how someone we know shelters her children. She protects her children from the daily tragedies that she encounters and controversy never enters her ... |
| April 9th, 2003 Billy Goats, the Bambino, and the Charlie Brown in All of Us According to baseball superstition, the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox are cursed. The Red Sox curse came in 1920, courtesy of Babe Ruth, the Bambino himself, ... |
| April 8th, 2003 The Ethical Quandary of Embedded Journalists Do "embedded journalists," that is, those assigned to cover and travel with a particular military unit, make for balanced war coverage?As a journalist I believe embedding journalists with our troops is higly problematic.Say the word To ... |
| April 5th, 2003 Single vs. Married Envy in the Lives of Women Today Our mothers and bosses spent their careers intent on proving themselves the equals of men. The focus of their comparison on issues of freedom, autonomy, agency, and compensation was across the gender line. The force ... |
| April 4th, 2003 Def Poetry Jam on Broadway From ghetto to ghetto In his 1990 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" Dana Gioia mourned the relegation of poetry to an "intellectual ghetto" where poets only write for ... |
| April 3rd, 2003 On the Job Where Columbia Should Have Landed The space program is so flatly braided into my life that I use it as an alarm clock. When an orbiter (for that is the proper, NASA-ized name for the part ... |
| April 3rd, 2003 The Spiritual Value of Bitching to God The Bible's full of angry people. Noah's mad at his sons, Moses is mad at the Hebrews, and Mrs. Job, after a day of awful luck, tells her husband to "curse God ... |
| April 2nd, 2003 The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue This being my first year as a paying Sports Illustrated subscriber, I was watching my mailbox this week with a mixture of curiosity and indignance. It's Swimsuit Issue Season, that dreary ... |
