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...something of a miracle that Mother Angelica entered the religious life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a traditional, strictly cloistered order of Franciscan nuns with special devotion to the consecrated host which is, Catholics believe, the Body of Christ. Crippled in a work accident, she vowed to establish a convent of her own in the predominantly Protestant South if she regained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHER KNOWS BEST | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

Lauren Piper North Canton, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...visual stylist, Chan can be brisk or suave. His 1989 Miracle (also known as The Chinese Godfather and Mr. Canton and Lady Rose), a kind of remake of Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, revels in supple tracking shots, elegant montages and a witty use of the wide screen. An American viewer may find the slapstick interludes overdone, but they are no harder to take than the scenes between dance routines in Astaire-Rogers movies. And it's in his production numbers-those double-time, intricately de-signed ballets of fists and feet-that Chan is unique, as star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...final few seconds of the St. Lawrence game reminded many of last year's trip to Canton, N.Y., when the Crimson scored to send the game into overtime with four seconds remaining...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It Coulda Been Worse...Konik, Cohagan Salvage Road Trip | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...father shot himself in the head on Friday afternoon. I didn't find out about it until Friday evening, when I called my family from the pay phone in the lobby of the hotel in Canton, N.Y., in which we were staying between games, along with the Harvard and Brown hockey parties...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Roller Coasting | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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