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When I left Dharamsala at dawn, the Dalai Lama was leading his monks in a three-hour ceremony while the sun came up behind the distant snowcaps. It struck me that the man has lived out a kind of archetypal destiny of our times: a boy born in a peasant village in a world that had scarcely seen a wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos...
...convinced that they were exempt from conventional economic constraints. The proof: year after year of high growth with minimal inflation. Contravening all known wisdom of economic management, they did it with lots of direction from government bureaucrats--who regularly outguessed the markets in developing efficient industries. The dawn of an Asian Century was upon us, and pundits struggled to explain this miracle...
EPIHC's corporate chair, Aerlyn G. Dawn '98, said the group was pleased with the number of consulting groups that decided to attend the fair...
...expect a bleary-eyed Albright to be waving a peace agreement in the Geneva dawn. But if the carrot of an end to sanctions has indeed convinced Baghdad to allow UNSCOM to continue its work, the Iraq crisis may yet be resolved without any missiles being launched...
Fleming, 38, is not the only contemporary classical singer to upend those stereotypes--Dawn Upshaw and Anne Sofie von Otter are also known for being good colleagues, devoted mothers and accomplished pop singers--but she may be the first to combine postfeminist independence with old-fashioned glamour. In person, Fleming comes across as cheerful and unassuming; onstage, she is one of the most vividly expressive personalities ever to take an opera-house curtain call. Appearing this fall in the Met's production of Manon, she bewitched audiences and critics alike with her compelling portrayal of the title character, a teenage...