Word: karma
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...farewell to the AL's also-rans, once more linked by October karma, this time considerably less auspicious than the last, and Godspeed to the survivors; may Omar Vizquel drag-bunt his way into our hearts and minds (now that Chad Curtis isn't around to come barging into second base standing up), may Roberto Alomar keep his well-travelled salivary glands in check, and may Greg Maddux and Kevin Brown pitch a 22-inning scoreless...
...almost did not rise from its last pile of ashes. Two of the key organizers quit last year after one young man died in the chaos and dust storm churned up by thousands of vehicles driving every which way on the roadless flats of Black Rock Desert. The karma of mayoring such a bohemian city was more than they bargained for. But Larry Harvey, a visionary in the classic sense of the word, is undaunted. "They told us it would fall apart at 1,000 people," he says. "Then at 5,000. But we could have a million people...
...people who wore glasses, were purged as he sought to reduce all of Cambodia to the level of the peasant class. The Vietnamese could be cruel captors, but their Confucian heritage left them open to educational reform. In Cambodia, by contrast, Buddhism encouraged a belief in the ineluctability of karma and the idea that evil suffered is evil deserved. "The idea of karma goes very deep in this society, and I think that was part of the mentality of the Khmer Rouge when they were massacring people," said Francois Ponchaud, a priest who first went to Cambodia in 1965. "They...
Founded in 1954, the Aetherius Society preaches that our negative Karma slows our spiritual rebirth in space. But despite our collective bad behavior, we are still aided by friendly, invisible space beings called Cosmic Masters. In 1958, Sir George King, a British yoga expert and the religion's founder, was told to prepare mankind for the Lord of Karma. After his coming, the Chosen will eventually merge with other life streams, becoming stars and planets...
...what Harvard needs to start off this season is some good karma, and this weekend is real important for that. The team's next game after URI isn't until September 20, so what happens in the next few days will set the tone for an entire week's worth of practices...