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ROME: The world has lost another legendary figure: Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who devoted her entire life to caring for the poor, passed away Friday in India. She had been in poor health for some time, and died of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa: An Inspiring Life | 9/5/1997 | See Source »

Oppenheimer was also a co-conspirator at the protest of a speech delivered by Ralph Reed at the Institute of Politics. There, Oppenheimer and several other students dressed themselves in nun's habits, and staged a kiss-in where men kissed men and women kissed women...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Oppenheimer Commands Non-Linear Universe | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Bongo Java coffeehouse. She?s thinking lawsuit. Bernstein, whose $1.89 pastry has attracted a barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original pastry as a "religious piece of dough" inadvertently discovered by a store employee, the selection of Nun Bun T-shirts, coffee mugs, bookmarks and video tapes for sale suggests that a more worldly process is at work. Mother Teresa's attorney Jim Towey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa Gets Tough | 5/22/1997 | See Source »

...players' league, and talent prevails." The Celtics will have two first-round picks this year, and the coach is also hoping his style of play--movement on offense, pressure on defense--will attract free agents. His personal style is also winning. Pitino has been known to visit an elderly nun as a favor to a friend of a friend. He will call a team meeting if he thinks the players aren't tipping enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOT OF CELTIC GREEN | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...voice equally suited to the roles of Susanna and Cherubino. Upshaw is far bolder than most vocalists in dramatizing the meaning of the words with gestures and expressions, and she diverted many pairs of eyes from reading the program to staring at the stage. "Die Junge Nonne" (The Young Nun) offered, if nothing else, an opportunity to hear Upshaw intone each syllable of "Alleluja...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: A Spring Night's Dream of a Concert | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

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