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...Certificate of Attendance award. Call him the Strom Thurmond of baseball. But don't make him a hero. Save that designation for Gehrig. Or Jackie Robinson, and the great black stars before him whom institutional racism kept from playing in the bigs. Or the famously reckless, play-through-pain Pete Reiser (who was so mangled after hitting the wall at Ebbets Field in 1947 that he was given the last rites, and played on). Or Pete Gray, who lost an arm in childhood yet still played a year in the majors. Or some schmo with average skills (like Bobby Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cal Ripken Is No Hero | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...HUPD officer was sent to Au Bon Pain after receiving a report that a person refused to pay the bill. The individual was gone upon the officer’s arrival...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 10/23/2002 | See Source »

...small village of Dangram, 460 miles northeast of Calcutta, because she is the beneficiary of what many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late Albanian nun to the site of her pain. In August 2001, Monica's miracle was supplied to the Vatican as part of the fast-tracking of Mother Teresa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Mother Teresa Got to Do with It? | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when she used the locket, but her pain had been coming and going. Then she went to the doctors, and they cured her." Monica still believes in the miracle but admits that she did go to see doctors at the state-run Balurghat Hospital. "I took the medicines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Mother Teresa Got to Do with It? | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...taken hotel traffic "back to Sept. 11 figures. We were just getting back to normal." Last week, a regional high school soccer tournament, scheduled to take place in Jakarta, was hastily moved to Malaysia, taking scores of families and probably thousands of tourist dollars with it. But the real pain may come in lost jobs, since tourism supports 12 million Indonesians. "A drop in a million tourists potentially means a million unemployed," says Alistair Speirs, chairman of the Indonesian chapter of the Pacific Asia Travel Association. The country is already hard pressed. The unemployment rate is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Failed State? | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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