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...town of Rikon. When the first refugees started arriving four decades ago, the Dalai Lama sent several monks and an abbot to Rikon, where the exiles congregated, to provide them with spiritual care. Today the monastery continues to preserve and promote Tibetan culture. The monks, with their lifelong study of the Buddha's teachings, have always been at the heart of Tibet's religion. Living in isolation from secular concerns and dedicating themselves to meditation, they are able to achieve the salvation - Nirvana - necessary to understand the spirit. Parts of the Basel exhibition offer a look at the monks' lives...
...lifelong white person, I would normally be reluctant to parse anyone's use, aside from David Duke's, of what my people now refer to as "the N word." But since I'm being paid to grapple with the subject, I would wager that Rock is making a point about how street culture celebrates boorish behavior, and how that can feed racist stereotypes, and how dispiriting that is. As with all great comedians--which is to say, as with all original thinkers--Rock's insights are beyond tidy labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing...
...Lifelong Sox fan that I am, I certainly considered Fenway. But the team is so good these days that every game's a nuthouse experience. I felt that the whole megasized Major League showtime deal might lead to sensory overload, and Caroline would come away only with memories of shouting and screaming. Fenway just didn't feel right to me. I took Caroline to the Swan Boats last year-four rides!-but didn't even try to score tickets for that night's Sox game...
Following his discharge, Hunter went home to Greenville a changed man. A sometime churchgoer before his illness, he returned with fervor to Russell Memorial Baptist Church, where his wife Kim was a lifelong parishioner. He has since missed, at most, two Sundays, and coaches many of the church-sponsored youth athletic teams. Readers of TIME's report have deluged him with stories about their own encounters with angels...
Although Harvard track co-captain Brenda Taylor ’00 has been a college graduate for just three weeks, she has already fulfilled a lifelong ambition...