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...chamber on Aug. 9. In words that today ring with heroism, Sister Teresa told Rosa in Echt, "Come. We are going for our people." In those words rest the very paradox of Sister Teresa: Were her people Jews or Catholics? The Carmelite nun, 50 when she died, was born Edith Stein, a Jew, and converted to Roman Catholicism when...
Poor Vic is hounded on all sides, by his fellow teachers and administrators at Glasgow's Blessed Edith Semple school, by the media, by priests who would like to credit his miracles to the intervention of the school's namesake in order to have her declared a saint (she already has one miracle to her credit; she needs two more for sainthood), by other priests who would like to dismiss his miracles because he is an atheist and by doctors who want to examine his remarkable recuperative abilities. Vic falls off a 40-foot building and suffers only cuts...
...most vitriolic attack came from New York Times Columnist William Safire. He wrote of Mrs. Reagan's "extraordinary vindictiveness" in dumping Regan and called her an "incipient Edith Wilson," referring to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's control of the White House after her husband was incapacitated by a stroke in 1919. Nancy Reagan, rasped Safire, is "unelected and unaccountable, presuming to control the actions and appointments of the Executive Branch...
...other History and Literature concentrators giving presentations in Burr Hall were Estelina L. Dallett '87, Edith Ervin '87, Valerie G. Scoon '87, and Takemi Ueno...
This well-directed busyness is shared by Edith Langley, hero of Golden Days, who has awakened from the coma of two bad marriages with the understanding that a girl has got to hustle. This is how she did it: "I made myself up half hour by hour. I rented myself out to silicone chip places. I got myself a weekly financial column at the city's 'second' paper, which got me to parties, which got me to cute guys, which got me to some financial meetings of small businesses, and little by little I was able to build...