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...fellow practitioners at Harvard are also drawn to the flexibility they perceive within the Buddhist tradition. They often emphasize the sentiment that the Buddha himself expressed in the Kalama Sutta, a central treatise of Buddhism, that his followers should personally test what they are told and accept it only if they truly see and understand...
Together, it all breathes new life into a program desperate for a new start and gives a second chance to players who had come to not only expect, but even accept defeat...
...fight against the insurgents, while accelerating the political transition. The hope is that greater Iraqi involvement in both security and self-government will turn the momentum against the insurgency. Casualties will likely continue, but poll numbers suggest that a majority of the American electorate may be willing to accept those as long as it remains persuaded that the administration has a coherent plan for turning things around in Iraq. Even if it involves a "long, hard slog...
...accept the presidency would indeed be a trip “back” to Penn for Faust. She received her masters there in 1971 and then her Ph.D. in 1975 from the university, both in American Civilization...
...When you are part of a public family, a different standard applies. Every part of your life is regarded as accessible. I accept things that other people see as strange, like magazines and news organizations compiling obituary pieces for my father in 1994 after he wrote his now-famous letter to the country saying he had Alzheimer?s. Requests for an interview or article, to be held back until the time of his passing, didn?t sting me or even seem inappropriate. Death is a delicate matter, but it will come, and my father is part of history...