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...woman who believed singularly in Jesus. "Mother Teresa, you're immortal!" came the cries as the citizens of Calcutta, the city she served for a half-century, broke through police barricades to run beside the carriage that bore her to her funeral. The same carriage bore the body of Mahatma Gandhi after he was assassinated in 1948. It also ferried that of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, after his death in 1964. Mother would have preferred something simpler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOR THE POOR, AN IMMORTAL | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Recently she came under attack from those who believe, as George Orwell once wrote about Mahatma Gandhi, that all saints should be judged guilty until proved innocent. In 1994 Britain's Channel 4 broadcast a revisionist look at Teresa that was harshly titled Hell's Angel. Written by Pakistani-born leftist Tariq Ali and British columnist Christopher Hitchens, the program claimed that the Missionaries of Charity accepted donations from some unsavory individuals, including Haiti's former autocrat Jean-Claude Duvalier. In return, Mother Teresa and her sisters delivered effusive encomiums in favor of the rich and infamous eager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEKER OF SOULS | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Yogesh Gandhi, a businessman from Orinda, California, related to the Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, gave $325,000 to the D.N.C. in May after presenting Clinton with the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace award. It would be legal for Gandhi as a naturalized citizen to make such a contribution, as long as it was his own money. Gandhi claims to be independently wealthy, but tax records obtained by ABC News indicate that he and his foundation owe more than $10,000 in back taxes and that he does not even own his home. Whom could he be representing? The Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FOREIGN FOUL-UP | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...President needed something more presidential, something of enduring and classic value. It was a job, they realized, for the Dead White Men and, inclusively speaking, Dead Ladies too. No problem. Hillary could contact them through her medium and persuade Mahatma Gandhi to dig up their voice-mail numbers. Eleanor Roosevelt would brief them on the issues--if by late August any issues remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE AUSTEN, ANSWER YOUR BEEPER | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...fact that we are not alone. So many people are Doomophiles that some firms have banned it from their networks. At AT&T's Bell Labs, computer jocks quickly mastered all the levels, then created their own special challenges. If a Bell guy says, "Do Level 12, Mahatma Gandhi--style," he wants you to race through the level barehanded, without harming any monsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A REVENANT ON MY BACK | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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