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...They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life." BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service...
...outrage over Prince Harry’s recent decision to attend a “Native and Colonial” party wearing a Nazi Afrika Corps uniform. The photograph of the oblivious Prince calmly holding a drink while sporting a blood-red, swastika-embellished armband has now become an icon of royal idiocy and cluelessness...
...second only to the Dalai Lama. He founded three monasteries in the U.S. and one in France and taught tens of thousands his concepts of "engaged Buddhism," which emphasizes meditation, peace and social justice. His 80 published books have sold 1.5 million copies. "In the West, he's an icon," says James Shaheen, editor and publisher of the U.S. Buddhist magazine Tricycle. "I can't think of a Western Buddhist who does not know of Thich Nhat Hanh...
Susan Sontag was our icon of the questing mind. FOR more than 40 years she made it seem both morally essential and utterly sexy to know everything--to have read every book worth reading, seen every movie worth seeing. It didn't hurt that she also possessed a dark, slightly exotic beauty, the kind that could make her seem like the star of her own foreign film. You only had to look at that thunderbolt of silver in her abundant black hair. What was it if not the outward sign of a mind illuminated by its own lightning...
...Your article described the view of traditionalists who believe that India is defined by restraint reflected in Gandhian frugality. A different point of view was provided by journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who said, "Gandhi may still be an icon, but Gandhism is dead as a dodo." Gandhism can never die. The Mahatma's sole objective in life was to turn man's attention to God and teach man how to seek the guidance of this kindly light within his soul in every situation. Gandhism is the very soul of man. Mukut Behari Lal New Delhi...