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...visit the former private rooms of the Dalai Lama, tourists don't get to see the Karmapa's old bedroom. Tsurphu hasn't become a museum: it is still a working monastery. We have arrived during a brief break in afternoon prayers and are able to walk inside the dim, main meditation hall and, with the aid of a flashlight, inspect the frescoes in the eerie silence. Between the singsong pujas (prayer sessions) that are punctuated by bells and drums, all Tibetan monasteries are quiet. Tsurphu feels more like it's coming back from the dead...
...After dropping a pair of games at then-No.5 Minn.-Duluth and its 2001 opener against then-No. 4 St. Lawrence, Harvard stood at 8-6-0 overall, and the team's NCAA hopes were looking dim. But then Botterill's play took off. The Crimson reeled off seven victories in a row, including a stretch in which Botterill netted hat tricks against the three traditional women's ice hockey powers-Northeastern, Providence, and New Hampshire...
...Until the Vermont Senator jumped ship from the GOP, the Dems were the toothless underdogs, growling angrily but harmlessly at Trent Lott and his committee chairmen as they back-pedaled all over President Clinton?s legacy. Tom Daschle stood at the front of the Democrats? stage, bathed in a dim light as he vowed almost soundlessly to fight the Republican encroachment on Democratic sacred cows like debt reduction and saving Social Security...
...pine to achieve, according to Raymond, "something a bit Zen." Both love the living-room entertainment center. They watch videos downloaded via a broadband Internet connection on a 42-in. (107-cm) flat-panel plasma screen, and use a wireless keyboard to operate the remote, surf the Net and dim the lights to a romantic, theater glow. Raymond reads the local paper online so he doesn't have to pay for a subscription to the print version...
Notice, please, that we didn't say Pearl Harbor is a totally terrible movie. It is watchable in a dim, beclouded sort of way. But one rather thinks that a film trying to recapture the romantic raptures and ruptures people suffered as World War II shattered their normality needs to impart a sense of their desperation as tragic possibility suddenly loomed in their lives...