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...schools faculty salaries are sometimes 20% below those in surrounding public schools. Voucher opponents also argue that in a nation worried about the fraying of its common ties, public money for private instruction would bring on a patchwork of taxpayer-supported ideological enclaves--not just Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, but schools arranged by black and white separatists and one-of-a-kind cults, all producing students who could be strangers (and worse) to one another. "There will be Farrakhan schools and probably Ku Klux Klan schools," says Albert Shanker, father figure of the American Federation of Teachers, the smaller...
...practicing physician and Buddhist, I find Chopra's metaphors to be flowery, vague and frothy. We have witnessed the phenomenon of Indian gurus many times before. It is just another scheme to tap into the thirst for spiritual values felt by the American middle and upper classes. It will be interesting to see how long Chopra and his disciples last. HUNG T. VU Fremont, California...
Soracco, an Estonian-born "healer" who draws on Christian, Buddhist and Native American traditions, did not know the people for whom she was praying. All she had were their photographs, first names and, in some cases, T-cell counts. Picturing a patient in her mind, she would ask for "permission to heal" and then start to explore his body in her mind: "I looked at all the organs as though it is an anatomy book. I could see where things were distressed. These areas are usually dark and murky. I go in there like a white shower and wash...
...last Tuesday, when the survivors of the most disastrous 24 hours in Everest's history honored their perished comrades in a Buddhist service, NBC's Everest chat room had reported more than a million hits, including tens of thousands of condolence messages. Beidleman responded, "We haven't enjoyed the fact of reaching the summit. And we are still in grief...
...range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist Chu Yun-ming, whose fierce cursive brush writing came to be revered as an example of moral probity in itself...