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...move-in policy was changed last spring at the request of House masters who complained that students had too much idle time before the start of classes and requested more time to train House staff, according to Epps...
After a brief period in Rathfarnham, where she learned English at the order's abbey, Sister Teresa sailed for India. She spent the next 17 years as a teacher and then principal of a Calcutta high school for privileged Bengali girls. It was on Sept. 10, 1946, during a train ride to Darjeeling for a religious retreat, that Teresa received a "call within a call" in which she felt God directed her to the slums. "The message was quite clear," she told colleagues. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor whilst living among them...
Martin Amis is the author of London Fields, The Information and other novels. His next, Night Train, is due in February
According to conference materials, organizers have designed the event to both "train" and "empower" women leaders, as well as establish a system of contacts between women...
DIED. FOREGO, 27, one of racing's hardiest geldings; by lethal injection after fracturing his right hind leg; in Lexington, Ky. Enormous at 17 hands high, Forego raced like a runaway freight train--and his trainers complained that he carried about as much weight. He won 34 of 57 races, most memorably the 1976 Marlboro Cup. Lugging the top weight of 137 lbs., Forego thundered past Honest Pleasure in a come-from-behind victory, below, that helped earn him his third title as Horse of the Year...