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...volunteered with the missionaries of Charity for a month in the summer of 2001. I believe that Mother Teresa's letters reveal not a "darkness" but a vulnerability. I can only imagine the mental and spiritual fortitude that a lifelong commitment to oppressed people would demand. Each letter Mother Teresa wrote was an attempt to sustain her spirit as she battled the effects of extreme poverty. Zachary Davis, Modesto, Calif...
...Diana mattered not only to Britain but to the whole world, as indicated by the global grief that accompanied her death. Although a princess, she was a humanitarian unequaled in the 20th century who crossed the boundaries of class and race. When I saw her with Mother Teresa, I was struck by the thought that, no matter what walk of life one comes from, sisterly love can be a universal attribute toward which we should all strive. Despite human frailties, she made the world a better place for all. Sonja Rencken, Abcoude, the Netherlands...
...mother of two and a volunteer, and I see many peers also performing volunteer services that are making a difference locally and globally. I love my country, but the current Administration is operating so poorly, it will take generations to undo the damage. To offset this, I try to do my part to improve social conditions and the environment, which will affect generations to come...
BABY BOOMERS KNOW HER AS the icy matriarch on TV's hit prime-time soap Falcon Crest, as Ronald Reagan's first wife and as mother of Maureen and Michael Reagan. Yet in the 1950s, the unpretentious Jane Wyman was one of Hollywood's most respected stars. She broke out of B movies in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and went on to vibrant performances in such films as 1948's Johnny Belinda (her portrayal of a deaf and mute rape victim won her an Oscar) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright. She broke her long silence on Reagan...
...PENN: My mother was reading this article about me in Esquire last month, and she called me up, and she said [Penn does his mother's voice], "Well, I thought it was an interesting article, but you know, the one thing, every time I'm sitting with you, you have a Diet Coke. Why is it that you're an alcoholic? I'm the alcoholic!" It was as though I'd stolen her mantle...