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These shocks generate most of the novel's plot. But what happens to Rabbit pales before what his jumpy, unpredictable consciousness makes of the experiences. His mind understandably roams as he tours a Florida theme park with his wife and two grandchildren: "Rabbit wonders how the Dalai Lama is doing, after all that exile. Do you still believe in God, if people keep telling you you are God?" The Dalai Lama has been in the news, and Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues...
...Danzig or dear old Dong Dang?" Or "Shall we use some big words like 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'justice'?" Yes, Luce replied, of course. This does not mean that it is our task "to police the whole world nor to impose democratic institutions on all mankind including the Dalai Lama and the good shepherds of Tibet." But America must primarily blame herself if "the world environment in which she lives" is "unfavorable to the growth of American life." And our only chance to make our democracy work is as part "of a vital international economy" and "an international moral order...
...further refinement to smooth their entry into society. Katmandu, Dar es Salaam, Bangkok: these are the trendy destinations of many young daydreamers. Susan Costello, 23, a recent Harvard graduate, voyaged to Dharmsala, India, to spend time at the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile, headed by the Dalai Lama. Costello decided to explore Tibetan culture "to see if they really had something in their way of life that we seem to be missing in the West...
...were a Chinese student, I would be fully in support of the decision," he told reporters. The Chinese embassy in Oslo read it the same way. It denounced the award as an intervention in China's internal affairs. Wang Guisheng, the embassy press attache, accused the Dalai Lama of "subverting the unity of the nation...
...Dalai Lama's headquarters in Dharmsala, India, news of the award prompted 1,000 exiled Tibetans to dance in the streets. "It is a victory for oppressed people everywhere," read an official statement. The Dalai Lama, attending a spiritual conference in Newport Beach, Calif., responded to the fuss with characteristic humility. "My case is nothing special," he said. "I am a simple Buddhist monk -- no more, no less." Authorities in Beijing, who have been struggling to convey an image of national calm and restored normality, only wish that were true...