Word: teresas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come up with some international relief. He met with the new Albanian Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino, on Friday, then went to the southern port of Vlora to talk with rebel leaders. But it seemed doubtful that his rounds would be any more effective than the prayer of Mother Teresa, who from Calcutta said of her fellow Albanians, "May God bring them joy, prosperity, peace and unity." First of all, Albania is in need of sanity...
Saints don't often retire. But MOTHER TERESA, the woman whom many revere as one, is 86. So, it has fallen on the frail-looking shoulders of SISTER NIRMALA, 70, a high-caste Hindu convert to Catholicism, to take over the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Nirmala joined the order at 23, after witnessing the horrors of the partition of India and Pakistan. "It was inspiration at first sight," she says of Mother Teresa's work. "Here was someone who could bring some compassion and a sense of destiny to the people." Sister Nirmala was elected by 123 sisters...
...Baseball Hall of Fame was not formed to honor good people. If it were, Mother Teresa would be a member, and Ty Cobb, a vicious player who once attacked a man with no arms, would not. The Hall honors players for their proficiency on the field. Pete Rose holds the career records for hits, at bats and games played. No organization can claim to enshrine the best players in baseball if it does not count Rose as one of its members...
...girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who should turn up but all four Beatles. They sang the night away. And while Farrow was in Hanoi undoing an adoption snag, she went to a commissary and found Mother Teresa eating breakfast...
Please note that credit for the photo of local hero Florence Denomme of the Phoenix, Arizona, Flow from the Heart Foundation [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 13] should have been given to Teresa Allen. KAREN BERG Phoenix, Arizona...