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...generous response, but one understandably more concerned with the fate of faith in general than the integrity of Buddhism. Most American Buddhists do not see themselves as proselytizers. The Dalai Lama has stated that the age of useful religious competition is past; people should stay with their birth faiths while profiting from other traditions. But some of Western Buddhism's more influential thinkers believe that it has far more to offer than meditation and may lose its essential core if it strives to Americanize too fully. Tworkov, who balances all sides nicely in Tricycle, believes many practitioners of engaged Buddhism...
...more unpleasant. The cab driver was not only offensively aggressive in grabbing our bag while we walked toward another cab, but he was abusive when it came time to pay. He insisted that Dartboard owed him for a base charge to Kirkland House what Dartboard paid last year (extra generous tip included) to ride all the way to Hurlbut Hall...
According to Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank professor of political economy at the Harvard Institute for International Development, contractors who produce shoes for Nike in Vietnam must pay a generous official minimum wage for foreign producers...
...decades the state legislature tried to plug the gap with economic incentives. It offered scholarships to the state's only medical school, in Kansas City. It forgave hundreds of thousands of dollars in educational loans. But it was always the same story: no matter how generous the financial package, no matter how idealistic the students, after six or more years of advanced medical training, most newly minted doctors dropped any thought of hanging out a shingle on the prairie...
Handling out flyers outside the Science Center, Simonoff, a 1988 Harvard Law School graduate, also characterized Harvard's students as being "generous and warmhearted in response to Alan's plight...