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...society's values. We look up to celebrities and entertainers rather than to teachers, nurses and others who work hard for the public good every day in unglamorous settings. One example of our skewed values: the diamond ring Dodi Fayed gave Princess Diana cost $205,400; the Nobel Peace Prize awarded Mother Teresa was worth $190,000. HOWARD M. LIEBMAN Brussels...
...person "could be very well-liked, but I need to defend my own principles," Lee said. "I would not hire a Nobel laureate [if] he doesn't know how to teach Chinese literature...
...Harvard Square diverse and uncommon, it would seem the Harvard Square Defense Fund is doing the students of Harvard as great a service as it provides Cambridge residents. Who would want to go to school, or live, in a mall? Many people, from the teenage punks to the Nobel laureates cited in the latter article, make a conscious decision to study, work, and spend time in Harvard Square because it is special. Students in search of fast food might consider that, like their Harvard degrees, the effort required to get the prize only makes it taste the sweeter. Catherine Schellenberg...
Miracle worker or not, Mother Teresa was now a media star. A decade after the documentary, she received the Nobel Peace Prize because "poverty and distress also constitute a threat to peace." At her request, the traditional banquet was canceled so the $7,000 cost could go to the poor. "We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us," she told the audience of rich and honored guests, "that they too have been created by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved...
...easily identify. For most of the years of her life, no cameras followed her when she bent down in the wretched streets of Calcutta to take dying people in her arms or when she touched the open wounds of the poor, the despondent, the discarded and alone. When the Nobel Committee blasted her with fame, she had already written most of the tale of her life, which was without much plot, was propelled by a main character who never changed direction, yet had a great theme. The end of Mother Teresa's story is not the end of her order...