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On the face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monks vs. Monks | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

And yet, "there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilde About Oscar | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

One of the most appealing attributes of A Widow for One Year is its refusal to pay any attention to the electronic clamor of American life. There is scarcely a TV set to be found in the entire novel. Recorded music appears fleetingly as an intrusive annoyance. Irving's people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Saga of Loss And Recovery | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Does a good-looking messenger make the message clearer? ALEK WEK is the fashion industry's current darling, scoring the cover of Elle and MTV's model-of-the-year award. And now both the U.S. Committee for Refugees and aid organization World Vision have signed Wek up to wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

"I think regardless of what the UAC says aboutthe fair not being a recruiting event, ultimatelythe reason pre-frosh go is because they want tosee what extracurricular life is like at Harvard,"Nguyen said. "Part of the job of groups who go isto make their group appealing to pre-frosh...

Author: By Eran A. Mukamel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-Frosh Fair Nearly Excludes Ethnic Groups | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

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