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Nobody will be forever happy in paradise or suffer forever in hell. Thus, we followers of Buddha do not aim for any form of paradise but seek Nirvana--emptiness, nonexistence. Of the three ways to acquire knowledge--studying, contemplating and practicing--Nirvana can only be known through practice. KYAW KYAW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Readers have always been interested in behind-the-scene books by the prominent; St. Augustine was on to a good thing when he wrote his Confessions back in A.D. 401. But the success of unhappy stories by the largely or completely unknown is a new and, to many, puzzling phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEISURE: REAL-LIFE MISERY. READ ALL ABOUT IT! | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

McTeer (who has done Shakespeare and Chekhov on the London stage and has played Vita Sackville-West in PBS's Portrait of a Marriage) is a tall, imposing-looking blond, which makes her wifely submissiveness early in the play all the more grotesque. Flapping her hands and giggling nervously, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THUNDERCLAP: JANET MCTEER BRINGS NEW PASSION TO IBSEN'S CLASSIC | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

Enron is also running up its own electric bill: the Houston company is paying $3.2 billion to acquire Oregon's Portland General Electric Co. in a deal that will give Enron access to low-cost hydroelectric power, 650,000 customers and an opportunity to go to school on retail operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER TO THE PEOPLE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

While Ovitz is unlikely to settle for a mere job, investment banker Herbert Allen, head of Allen and Co., has told inquiring moguls that he thinks Ovitz would have no trouble raising money to acquire a midsize company--and Allen's clearly a guy who would know--though no obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOB HUNTING WITH MIKE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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