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Tsurphu, the capital of the Kagyupa (Black Hat) Tibetan Buddhist sect, is hidden at 4,480 m in the remote and desolate snow-capped peaks of central Tibet. Founded in the 1180s by the first Karmapa, it is a mere 50 km, but a rocky two-and-a-half-hour drive, from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The road is little more than a path distinguishable from the rest of the moonscape by the occasional tire track. My Lhasa-born Tibetan driver has to stop twice to ask farmers the way. Finally we reach a rickety bridge over a fast...
...There were other diversions: although I missed Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's left jab at a protestor in Wales, who threw an egg at him, I did catch the male streaker who jumped on the Lib Dem's final rally platform wearing only a party hat...
...journalists in pursuit of them on press buses have seemed more dutiful than excited. To enliven the tedium of long journeys with little opportunity for much real journalistic coverage, media on both the Labour and Tory buses played a bingo game. This involved picking slips out of a hat filled with Blair's and Hague's oft-repeated phrases, with scoring based on which of the phrases popped...
...girl in six-inch platform boots is hanging with her friends on a Catholic school stoop in Chelsea, New York City, watching a gaggle of boys playing hacky- sack on the street. As the sun sets, the group is joined by a boy wearing a striped, bright knit hat; a young man in a button-down shirt; a graphic designer - dozens of young New Yorkers of all shapes and sizes. As 9 p.m. approaches, they file into the gymnasium and flop into hard, brown plastic chairs arranged in the center. "Hi, I'm Andrew and I'm an alcoholic," says...
When the ECAC playoffs rolled around, Tammy Shewchuk fast became the Crimson's go-to player. In the quarterfinals, Providence made a serious bid to bring Harvard's season to a premature end, but Shewchuk would not be denied, scoring a hat trick and assisting on sophomore linemate Kalen Ingram's game-winner in overtime...