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...those who believed and perhaps even for those who merely admired her, Mother Teresa was a living saint, drawing both rich and poor to her side and to the message of God. She could, wrote Malcolm Muggeridge in his 1971 book Something Beautiful for God, "hear in the cry of every abandoned child the cry of the Bethlehem child; recognize in every leper's stumps the hands which once touched sightless eyes and made them...
...finally killed the former Zairean dictator (TIME Daily) ... Mir's main computer fails, but the crew sleeps on (TIME Daily) ... Palestinians are cracking down on Islamic militants as Madeleine Albright prepares for her Mideast peace mission (Reuters) ... Mourning continues for Princess Diana (People) and Mother Teresa (Life), while the "Saint of Calcutta" appears set for cyberspace beatification (The Netly News) ... and Rafter and Hingis are crowned U.S. Open champs (CNNSI...
...single car crash could have so much impact? Let's face it, this was the one week in history in which someone of Mother Teresa's caliber could have died and not end up as the lead story on the evening news (which would have suited the self-denying saint of Calcutta just fine). Once it was announced, the news from Paris loomed like a tidal wave that seemed to dwarf the rest of the world. All of a sudden nobody cared about Mir or Miami, the Olympics or E.coli; the People's Princess was from our hearts untimely ripped...
...fifth-generation Latter-day Saint, I read with interest your report on the church. It is amusing how the media are so intent on primarily examining the financial holdings of my church. My voluntary tithes and offerings stem from my sincere belief in the divine origins, doctrines and destiny of this religion. The real strength of the Mormon church can be found in what it offers mankind spiritually, not monetarily. PETER W. MADSEN West Jordan, Utah
Fortunately, Capra, over at Columbia, found in Stewart "the uncommon common man": as a lion tamer of the wild Vanderhof clan in You Can't Take It with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn...