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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blazing Tchaikovsky concerto, probe the intimate, sorrowing mysteries of Alban Berg's twelve-tone essay in the form, or tackle Sir Edward Elgar's king-and-country Violin Concerto with equal aplomb. She also plays in a chamber trio with her sister Myung-Wha, a cellist, and her brother Myung-Whun, a pianist now making a career as a conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Siren Songs at Center Stage | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...incarnation of Tibet's patron god. Two years later, after passing an elaborate battery of tests, the little boy was taken amid a caravan of hundreds into the capital of Lhasa, "Home of the Gods." There he had to live alone with his immediate elder brother in the cavernous, 1,000-chamber Potala Palace and undertake an 18-year course in metaphysics. By the age of seven, he was receiving envoys from President Franklin Roosevelt and leading prayers before 20,000 watchful monks; yet he remained a thoroughly normal little boy who loved to whiz around the holy compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibet's Living Buddha | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...outsider, the life of a living Buddha can seem a profoundly lonely one. In recent years, moreover, nearly all the people closest to the Tibetan ruler -- his senior tutor, his junior tutor, his mother and the elder brother who in youth was his only playmate -- have died. Yet this, like everything else, the Dalai Lama takes, in the deepest sense, philosophically. "Old friends pass away, new friends appear," he says with cheerful matter-of- factness. "It's just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibet's Living Buddha | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...kidnaped and brutally murdered by henchmen of the Medellin cocaine cartel for advocating the reinstitution of a Colombian-U.S. extradition law. Now his replacement, Acting Attorney General Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, 63, has resigned. The reason: cocaine traffickers had used an airstrip on a ranch owned by his brother Libardo, 70. Gutierrez may have lacked the right attitude for his job anyway. Three weeks after assuming his post, he suggested that the best way to defeat the drug lords was to legalize cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Next Candidate, Please | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Before he took office in February, South Korean President Roh Tae Woo pledged to leave no "sanctuary" for wrongdoers in the government of his predecessor and mentor, Chun Doo Hwan. Roh is proving true to his word. Last week Chun's younger brother, Chun Kyung Hwan, 45, was arrested for tax evasion, influence peddling, and embezzling at least $8.7 million from the semiofficial Saemaul Undong movement, a national development organization he headed for seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Ties That Bind | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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