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...middle. Thefounder is the illegitimate son of an Irish monk,who raises the boy cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until the day theCatholics return and he falls back into theautomatic regimen of his youth...
Even at Harvard, it is not enough to nourish the mind. People also need something for the soul. As head of Memorial Church, Reverend Peter J. Gomes has the formidable task of feeding the university's "spiritual hunger." But this is a task extends beyond exploring the scriptures. Hailed as one of the seven best preachers in America, Gomes satiates the religious appetite with sermons that his audience savors, replete with advice on how to join the practical to the spiritual--from how to focus for an exam to how to extract principles out of an amoral world...
...Dalai Lama opposed the hunger strikes, saying he rejected even violence against the self,? says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. ?At the same time he admitted that he hadn?t achieved any progress via his nonviolent path...
...hunger strikers hospitalized in India have already been replaced by six others, and with Tibetan frustration at an all-time high, Ngodup is unlikely to be the last casualty of their independence campaign...
...with China has won nothing from Beijing, which has led Tibetans to take drastic steps. A 50-year-old Tibetan monk died Wednesday of burns sustained when he set himself alight on Monday. Thupten Ngodup?s self-immolation was a protest against Indian police intervention to stop a Tibetan hunger strike...