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...list of possible Class Day speakers including Al Gore '69, Madonna and his Holiness the Dalai Lama was released yesterday by the senior Class Day committee...
Human-rights crusaders like Tibet's Dalai Lama and South Africa's Desmond Tutu are so celebrated in the U.S. that it can be easy to forget how dangerous and lonely their work can be. Kennedy Cuomo's interviews with 50 activists, including seven Nobel laureates, tell the stories of these courageous souls in their own sometimes straightforward words. East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta remembers when the U.S. was a foe: "My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter Administration." Black-and-white portraits by the Pulitzer-prizewinning photographer...
...hotel lobby a 7-ft. patriarch from Africa's Horn mingles with tiny, saffron-robed Cambodian monks and an indigenous tribesman who appears to be wearing an entire stuffed owl on his head. The gathering is not devoid of tensions, including a protest over the absence of the Dalai Lama, who was slighted to placate the Chinese at the U.N. The security staff is edgy. ("Make a mark! Any mark!" a guard, desperate for an I.D.-card signature, begs Don Andres.) But the general mood is one of excited collegiality...
...workers prepared to send glossy volumes of "The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert McNeely" to American distributors, customs officials stopped the shipment and confiscated the books. It appears that one picture in particular may be to blame: A photo of President Clinton exchanging a handshake with the Dalai Lama reportedly piqued Chinese officials? interest (it's on page 84, for those of you lucky enough to see one of the 8,000 copies that apparently slipped under the censors? radar...
...actually control the political content of printed materials," one spokesman told the New York Times. But it remains unclear why the Chinese government chose to zero in on this particular book or this publisher. There is speculation that the photo in question, which shows President Clinton gripping the Dalai Lama?s hand during a tete a tete in Vice President Gore?s office (the White House decided to arrange the meeting outside the Oval Office in hopes of quelling Chinese objections), may have raised Chinese ire because it seems to show the Lama in an official role. Such a distinction...