Word: eastern
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Your article on the new popularity of Buddhism in America [RELIGION, Oct. 13] referred to our school, a private, nonprofit, liberal-arts college, as having been at the forefront of teaching Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures. We were thrilled to be included, but as much as we value our proximity to Denver, the institute is in fact located in Boulder, Colo., and received its accreditation in 1986, not 1996. LISA TRANK Manager, Public Relations Naropa Institute Boulder, Colo...
...gone a little too far. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the champion of assisted suicide who has helped anywhere between 50 and 100 terminally ill patients die, appears to have helped a woman kill herself in a church. The 74-year-old Nadia Foldes of New York, an Eastern Orthodox Christian, inhaled carbon dioxide late Thursday at a Catholic church somewhere in Detroit...
...dominating fashion, the Blake brothers stormed through the competition at the Rolex Eastern Intercollegiate Championships at Philadelphia, P.A. to earn not only the doubles crown, but also a chance to meet each other in the final round of the singles tournament...
When Central and Eastern European Jews arrived in the late 19th century, speaking no English, possessing a very different culture, and faced with widespread anti-Semitism, they succeeded nonetheless, representing, within one or two generations, a disproportionate percentage of America's professional and cultural elite. Indians and Pakistanis have also done remarkably well in America...
...Buddhism [RELIGION, Oct. 13], beckoned. But here in the West, those religions are artificially implanted in a society that is spiritually lost. The followers are ready to be led like sheep into any corner of the religious corral--be it to mass suicide, sexual excess or even murder. Eastern religions are Eastern in their mentality, and Buddhism in America will go the way of other fads. ROMAN STASTNY London...