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complained, though, that officials of the British government did little to

ease the suffering of homeless in their country, despite her offers of help.

Although the last 20 years had brought great recognition for Mother

Teresa and her organization, it was also a period of loss, regret, and con-

troversy. With a new decade looming before her, Mother Teresa, at the

age of 80, showed no signs of slowing down. However, the coming years

would be less than kind to her, both personally and professionally, as she

strove to continue her work with the poor.

NOTES

1. Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1997),
   p. 102.


2. Germaine Greer, “Heroes and Villains,” Independent,September 22, 1990.


3. Raghu Rai and Navin Chawla, Mother Teresa: Faith and Compassion(Rock-
   port, Mass.: Element, 1992), p. 184; Anne Sebba, Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image
   (New York: Doubleday, 1997), p. 100.


4. Eileen Egan, Such a Vision of the Street: Mother Teresa—The Spirit and the
   Work(Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1986), p. 396.


5. Egan, Vision,p. 398.


6. “The Week,” National Review,January 4, 1980, p. 12.


7. Nobel Foundation, “Mother Teresa Nobel Lecture,” http://www.nobel.se/
   peace/laureates/1979/teresa-lecture.html (accessed November 19, 2003).


8. Nobel Foundation, “Mother Teresa Nobel Lecture,” http://www.nobel.se/
   peace/laureates/1979/teresa-lecture.html (accessed November 19, 2003).


9. Anthony Burgess, “Mother Teresa,” Evening Standard,January 3, 1992.

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