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...skeleton superpower, finishing 1-2-4 in the men's event and adding a bronze in the women's. What did the face-first sliders do right? "Even though skeleton is an individual sport, the athletes learned to work together and trust each other," says skeleton team manager Teresa Schlachter. There was a support team--coaches, sport scientists, massage therapists, video experts and nutritionists--"passionate about what they do, who worked together to help each athlete optimize their performance." The skeleton team is seeking new recruits, and it has world-ranked junior athletes waiting in the wings...
...order: brooding, dangerous, mysterious, snappily dressed (although, alas, the cape has largely been dispensed with) with eye-catching dentition. "It's that fantasy about taming the bad boy, and you can't get any worse than a vampire," says Erika Tsang, a senior editor at Avon Books, which publishes Teresa Medeiros' popular vampire novels. "They have been alive for 600 years. They've experienced everything. Then all of a sudden they meet this great heroine, who basically is a breath of fresh air. Falling in love, trying to find that spark again in their lives--that is a great romantic...
That was radical, highly charged stuff, but in time it found a suitable champion. Teresa of Avila, born in 1515, was one of the Catholic Church's great mystics and--through tireless work founding and defending a new model for convents and monasteries--a heroine of the Counter-Reformation, Catholicism's vigorous response to the challenge of Protestantism. After prayer to Joseph cured her of an early case of paralysis, she adopted him as her "true father," stating that "in heaven God does whatever he commands." Teresa took the Nazareth household as the model for her order and named...
...like to call her Mother Teresa,” says friend and roommate Shirley V. Cardona ’06. “The entire time we’ve been in college people have asked ‘What’s Jenn going to do when she graduates?’ and we’ll say, ‘She’s going to save the world...
...event featured a screening of “The Slogans,” a movie about life in an Albanian village during the communist era. The club’s leaders also presented a slide show of images of Albania and famous people from the nation, including Mother Teresa. Organizers said the club hopes to cooperate with both other international groups at Harvard and Albanian groups in the Greater Boston area. Nesho said that there is a more sizeable Albanian population in Boston than many students expect. “Albanians live everywhere,” he said, from South...