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Order in the Court
The millennium has given us dozens of epochal trials -- Charles I, Joan of Arc, the Salem witches, Captain Dreyfus, even O.J. Yet no matter how consequential or dramatic, their impact in retrospect was more as a forum for the clash of rival social forces than for outcomes that changed history.
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Finding moments of nobility behind the Vatican's walls
I am not a Roman Catholic, but I have always been drawn to those books in which a character struggles to find his or her true relationship with the Church. Somehow, adherence to the Church's intricate discipline and rituals, its mysteries and dogmas, raises issues not merely of faith but also of fundamental human choice. How, these characters seem to wonder, did we come to this faith? And what is the power in us that wishes both to reject and to embrace it? Those are essential questions, and they make the stuff of fine fiction, as is the case in Eugene Kennedy's novel \"Fixes.\" Kennedy, a former Roman Catholic priest and now a man of many hats-biographer, novelist, political commentator, professor of psychology at Loyola University-has attempted to marry the novel of serious contemplation with a work of suspense. The novel is set more or less in the present, in Rome, and its plot moves along two tracks-one following an intimate personal dilemma, the other world-shaking public events. Monsignor Michael Tracy is a priest on the fast-track. In Chicago, his career has risen like a rocket, with a bishopric in sight. Unfortunately, Msgr. Tracy's booster stages have separated prematurely. He has fallen desperately in love with a former nun and has come to Rome to seek Vatican permission to leave the priesthood and to marry. His plans horrify his brother Jimbo, Time magazine's correspondent in Rome. Divorced himself, Jimbo regards marriage as too unredeeming to justify the sacrifice of the family's long nourished hopes that Michael will attend to \"things timeless if not eternal.\"
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THE TENURE TRAP
SATIRE is typically inspired by revenge, and it is revenge, in part, that inspires [Michael Levin]'s first novel, ''The Socratic Method''; Mr. Levin acts out the dark dreams of many attorneys and attempts to get even for law school. The result is not flawless, but ''The Socratic Method'' is an energetic, intelligently motivated and often extremely funny book. '' 'You had to remind me about it,' she said, smiling. '' 'You write so well,' he said. 'You could make peo-ple believe just about anything.' '' 'Why, it's the truth,' said the [Dean], returning a smile and walking into the elevator. The Saint watched the doors close on the Dean before he spoke. '' 'If he ever finds out we did it, we're pwango kyohi.' '' 'What's that mean?' '' 'It's Nigerian for ''dead meat.'' ' ''
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HEY, CUBS: SPEND THE MONEY! BASEBALL TEAMS WITH THE HIGHEST PAYROLLS ARE THE ONES IN THE WORLD SERIES
Like my father, from whom I inherited this malady, I've been a Cubs fan my whole life. But I'm going to be 48 years old this spring, not long after Opening Day, and something desperate is stirring in my breast: I want a winner. I know, I know, every fan wants a winner. I've watched \"Damn Yankees\" many times, the musical comedy based on Douglas Wallop's novel about a fan so desperate he sells his soul to the devil to become Joe Hardy, a wondrous player who converts the old Washington Senators into champions. Losing for the Cubs has become if not a religion, at least a romance. Cubs fans have developed a sick co-dependence with the team's ownership. We go to Wrigley Field, we root, we listen and watch the games on Tribune Co.'s media triumvirate --WGN-Ch. 9, WGN-AM and CLTV on cable--while the Cubs always, inevitably, lose. We feel noble with self-pity, while Tribune Co. enjoys a healthy profit and the belief that, at least, it has delivered what Cubs fans expect. We have got to break the cycle. It's time for Cubs fans to remind the Cubs' corporate ownership that baseball, while unquestionably a business, is also a sport: competitive to the core, full of the win-big, lose-big stuff that's at the heart of athletics.
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