Word: armchairs
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...Dalai Lama was contemplating the latest strange turn in this enforced interaction with the modern world: the $70 million Hollywood movie Seven Years in Tibet and Martin Scorsese's remarkable new film, Kundun, both of which tell the story of his early life. Sitting cross-legged in his armchair, rocking back and forth as he spoke and always keeping an eye out to make sure my cup of tea was full, the famously accessible doctor of metaphysics talked with full-bodied candor, for day after day, about his death, the increasingly public divisions within the Tibetan community...
...backyard, ensconced in a cozy black leather armchair, Rabbi Philip Berg, 68, is presiding over a hushed celebration of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkoth. As the garden party proceeds, he remembers when he saw the Light. "When you meet your master, it takes but a minute," says Berg, referring to the late, hallowed Kabbalist Yehudah Brandwein. "The Light simply turned on." The enlightenment was passed on by marriage as well: Brandwein's niece became Berg's first wife. Since Berg met Brandwein in 1962, the Brooklyn-born leader of the Kabbalah Learning Center has pursued a single mission...
...pages; $28) is a new collection of Ambrose's essays that demonstrates deep knowledge and common sense about mankind's most senseless activity. Its author, whose military experience ended in 1955 after two years of R.O.T.C. at the University of Wisconsin, deftly avoids the punditry and globaloney of armchair adjutants and mediagenic experts...
Southeast Asia's troubles may seem safely distant to armchair investors half a world away. After all, economies and markets there historically have had low correlation with those in the U.S., meaning that if theirs tumbles, ours doesn't necessarily follow. Take Japan. Its stock market has been in decline most of the past eight years, a period in which U.S. stocks have risen 240%. Since August, the U.S. market has seemed equally impervious to the pain of 20% to 40% market plunges in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and finally Hong Kong...
WASHINGTON: For politicians, there are hot seat issues and there are comfortable armchair issues. But in the tobacco settlement, President Clinton has found a real La-Z-Boy ? where he can take an extremely popular position without lifting a finger. "Put simply, he wants to renegotiate," says TIME's White House correspondent Jef McAllister. "And he can, because he took this issue on a year ago and it's clearly got his stamp on it. Now he's come down on the side of C. Everett Koop and David Kessler, who say the settlement doesn't do enough for children...