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...despite their incongruous and distant appearance, the Sikhs (pronounced "seeks") have taken time from their meditating and yoga, to participate actively in the commercial and spiritual realms of Cambridge and Boston. The 40-member religious group runs Golden Temple Footwear, Golden Temple Restaurant, a carpentry group called Golden Temple Craftsmen, and offers lessons in nutrition, marital counseling, and Kundalini Yoga in their center above Belgian Fudge. They live together in an ashram in Dorchester, a string of four houses, and one of 125 ashrams in America. In the nine years since the ashram's founding they say they have developed...
...between correspondents and foreign service officers. "They both must report on what is going on, and they invariably turn to each other for help," says Bonfante, whose last foreign assignment before joining the magazine's New York writing staff last year was as Rome bureau chief. "The more distant the outpost, the more intense the relationship...
...along: that a deeply conservative Republican like Reagan cannot attract enough independent voters to win the November election. Ironically, the moderate Baker had also insisted that he could attract the necessary coalition of voters to win. But his quiet style lit no fires, and when he finished a distant fourth in Massachusetts, with only 5% of the tally, he decided to pack it in. Said he: "It's not in the cards...
Below a diamond white momentarily flashed the clouds. For an instant I thought it was our wing beacons. "Jeesus, what was that," I said as it flashed twice more, much brighter. "Lightinin', damn it. Don't you know what lightinin' is boy?" Lightining. Building in distant flashes, growing in intensity as we moved further east, showing a pearly, limitless vista. Silver veins tearing from cloud to cloud quietly. It clawed below, ripping New York silently...
Blue hills on a distant skyline...