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...Strength Through Suffering David van Biema's article on Mother Teresa was a spiritual meditation in itself [Sept. 3]. His insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, Dublin...
...just beginning his freshman year when Katrina hit—indeed, he and a high school friend moved into their dorms the day they heard about the approaching hurricane. Slattery, who grew up just a few blocks from Tulane, says that he and his friend could sense the strength of the hurricane as they walked around the city. “We stopped, and realized that the thing was coming for us, just by the feeling in the air,” he says...
...Strength Through Suffering David van Biema's article on Mother Teresa was a spiritual meditation in itself [Sept. 3]. His insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, DUBLIN The face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank...
...overseeing the implementation of the College’s curricular review and the new general education reforms. That process should involve the resources of the whole University, Faust added. “I hope we will bear in mind the question of how our undergraduate program can draw greater strength from the fact that Harvard College makes its home within Harvard University, with its matchless collection of schools, centers, libraries, laboratories, and museums,” she wrote. While Faust has publicly emphasized her desire to build networks across the University since her appointment was announced in February...
...testing powerful new weaponry, and allegedly dropping a missile or two on the Western-leaning country of Georgia. The tension over a U.S. missile shield program based in Eastern Europe also promises to continue. For Peskov, the contentiousness lies in the West's inability to accept Russia's new strength. "It's always better to keep your competition down. The whole global affair is a competition," he said. "It has to be a fair competition. And Russia is ready to take part... Of course, not everybody is welcoming a new competitor...