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...Gestapo came for Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross at the Carmelite convent in Echt, the Netherlands, on Aug. 2, 1942. She and her older sister Rosa, who was living at the convent, were given five minutes to pack. Within a week the two women were at the gates of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They died in the gas chamber on Aug. 9. In words that today ring with heroism, Sister Teresa told Rosa in Echt, "Come. We are going for our people." In those words rest the very paradox of Sister Teresa: Were her people Jews...
This week Pope John Paul II will beatify Sister Teresa at a Cologne stadium during the Pontiff's five-day visit to West Germany. In the ceremony -- the final step before Teresa is declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church -- the Pope will be further drawing his church into a dispute that seems to be aggravating Rome's history of strained relations with Jews. John Paul will be stepping directly into the controversy on his West German visit, during which he will also beatify Rupert Mayer, a German Jesuit priest who opposed the Nazis and died...
Brown's run came in the third inning when Susan Tounge hit a sacrifice fly to leftfielder Nancy Prior. The throw to home barely missed nailing Caroline Thronton. Thornton led off the inning with a walk, was sacrificed to second and advanced to third on Teresa Hirshauer's single...
...Lacroix extravaganza. Take the music. Not for him the standard melange of rock and wailing chanteuses. At last week's show the models moved to an eclectic assortment of tunes suggested by the show's escapist, vaguely Caribbean theme. The selections ranged from a thrilling recording of zarzuela by Teresa Berganza to a down-home rendition of the old round "Down by the station, Early in the morning/ See the little puffer bellies, All in a row." The room went wild...
...Lakin '90 of Thayer Hall and Los Angeles, California; Camille L. Landau '90 of Grays Hall and San Francisco, California; Jonathan S. Leff '90 of Pennypacker Hall and Atlanta, Georgia; Karen W. Levy '89 of Dudley House and Potomac, Maryland; Emily Mieras '90 of Canaday Hall and Lexington, Massachusetts; Teresa A. Mullin of Canaday Hall and Allentown, Pennsylvania; Kristin L. Olson '88 of Winthrop House and Pasadena, California; Joseph C. Tedeschi '90 of Thayer Hall and Brooklyn, New York; Julio R. Varela '90 of Holworthy Hall and New York, New York; Benjamin Waldman '89 of Lowell House and Plainview...