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Little Buddha hopscotches the world from the kingdom of Bhutan to Seattle, Washington, and leapfrogs millenniums from the Buddha's birth in 2500 B.C. to today. In Bhutan a Tibetan monk named Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng) hears that an American boy, Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), may be the reincarnation of an important lama. Incredulous at first, Jesse's parents (Chris Isaak and Bridget Fonda) are sufficiently impressed by Lama Norbu's otherworldly sweetness that they allow the boy to keep company with him, and eventually to journey to Bhutan with his father and two other candidates for the exalted position...
...market directly to an avid public. In malls throughout the U.S. and around the world, the 268 Disney Stores and the 67 owned by Warner sell not just the usual T shirts and gewgaws but the whole corporate cartoon experience, once removed. These outpost embassies for the Magic Kingdom and Warner's more raucous cartoon realm are more than stores: they are fun fairs, playgrounds, date destinations, suburban social centers...
...only seven days before the polls were to open, the Zulu leader suddenly announced he had "decided to make compromises to avoid a great deal more bloodshed and carnage." Buthelezi dropped his demand for an autonomous province that he could dominate and settled for constitutional recognition of the Zulu kingdom...
Hall is Professor of Sociology and Head of Discipline in the Faculty of Social Science at the Open University in the United kingdom. He has co-authored and co-edited many books on topics including politics and the modern state...
...involving Jesus' claim of a status that belongs to the Creator alone. Brown does not think Jesus or his followers used the title "Son of God" in Jesus' lifetime. But he considers it plausible that Jesus claimed the power to forgive sins, spoke of bringing about the kingdom of God and implied that God would judge people on how they responded to Jesus himself. All that would have provided ample reason for condemnation...