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...appears that after decades of fruitless negotiations with Beijing as part of an attempt to gain some concessions for his homeland, the 15th Dalai Lama may have finally reached the end of his tether. "Mr. Patience has run out of patience," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York City. "It's really very serious indeed and a major disappointment, though not so much of a surprise. The Chinese must have know this was coming - some of the responsible officials in fact must be very pleased that they have managed to provoke this reaction...
...donation, which includes painting by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Barnett Newman, is "one of the most significant donations of art" that the Harvard Art Museum has ever received. The $45-million is also the largest financial gift ever to the museum...
...included Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams.Rose A. Aldea, a QuestBridge Scholar and freshman at Columbia, said she “probably” would have applied to Harvard if it were part of the program, but she was doubtful she would have attended, as Columbia was her first choice.Joseph L. Barnett, a QuestBridge Scholar at Princeton, came from a rural, underdeveloped area and lived in a two-bedroom apartment while attending a large public school. He would have definitely applied to Harvard had it been on the list, he said.Princeton happens to be one of the schools that offers non-binding...
...perhaps, because of a feeling that this was a Tibetan issue ("these are monk wars," said one), partly because many are themselves deeply invested in the Dalai Lama, and partly because of the whiff of fundamentalism and recklessness that clings to the sect. Shugden "is about vengeance," says Robert Barnett of Columbia University. "I think that any talk of [its devotion to] compassion is misleading." Barnett believes that the movement's true goals must be "brought out into the open" - especially to innocent Westerners - before "the real social concerns that must exist" in Tibet can be addressed...
...South Florida's per capita use is 50% above the national average, and we've lost half the wetlands that used to recharge our aquifers. So water shortages threaten to limit growth in a way that wetlands regulations or bad headlines never could. "Florida is astonishingly wasteful," says Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Now the Orlando area is pushing to suck water out of rivers to its north, local utilities are jacking up water rates as much as 35%, and South Florida's water board may cap withdrawals from Everglades aquifers...