New Oxford Notes: June 2011
Irony & the Obama Catholic
President Obama's number one Catholic supporter has resigned as Ambassador to Malta after being criticized by the State Department for his "unconventional approach."
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Internet
Fractured Catholic granules isolated in separate information spheres is inimical and antithetical to the Church's mission to unify mankind in Christ.
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Is Your Job on the Endangered-Species List?
As the economy and culture become increasingly feminized, how long will it be before we start speaking of a "glass ceiling" for men?
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As aliens yearn
For the native land.
We still return
To the garden —
Taste…
The world Ishiguro describes is not some far-flung future driven by fantastic technology still on the distant horizon; it is recognizable as our own.