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...bring Suma Ching Hai into focus, imagine Martha Stewart as the Dalai Lama. The Supreme Master, 46, is an elegant hostess--and clever merchandiser. At a vegetarian dinner with a TIME correspondent last week in Alhambra, California, she wore a bright yellow dress that she designed herself--embroidered with the Supreme Master monogram (SM) and available to followers by catalog. When she gestured with her hands, she flashed gold and diamond rings with the SM design, part of her Celestial Jewelry collection--available by catalog as well. (Also for sale: Celestial purses, hats, gold dinnerware, chopsticks, inspirational videos, floor lamps...
That was a wise move. By June the fund's private investigators determined that much of the money had been raised under the auspices of the Suma Ching Hai International Association, a Taiwan-based Buddhist sect that claims 100,000 followers in the U.S. The donations appear to have been generated at Ching Hai meetings in several U.S. cities, where followers were urged to contribute to the Clintons' defense fund. Some members gave directly; the Washington Post reported that others were told contributions would be made in their name. Trie's ties to the group are a mystery, but then...
...U.S.A. Dream Girls--Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie et al.--looked unbeatable on their recent world tour, but they could be upset in this competitive field, perhaps by the physical Australians, or by the Chinese, who feature the Great Wall of 6-ft. 9-in. Zheng Hai...
...must move beyond all of this. Conflict and violence between Israelis and Palestinians dates back to before the tragedy of Deir Yassin, to the massacre of Jewish pioneers at Tel-Hai in 1920 and the riots of the 1930s. The Israeli public rejected that heritage by electing leaders who realize the ethical erosion that results from dominating another people...
Zhao Li, 25, one of many who choose to xia hai (plunge into the sea), quit her state-assigned job as an interpreter to work in a foreign-owned public relations firm. Her salary quintupled and she moved into her own two-room apartment. When her parents tell Zhao that her friends are all having children, she replies, "I have no time to be married." Chinese are marrying at a later age, casual premarital sex is more common, and the urban young increasingly choose their own spouses. "It used to be that Communist Party membership was important," said Wang Zhixiong...