Word: lopezes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detrimental to my family, to me, to Ellen Dever [Shah's divorced wife], to would-be protective parents and to abused children everywhere, taught me that you are not reputable or even truthful. My second husband, Johnny, was a good-hearted and loving man. Despite what Steve Lopez wrongfully implied in his article, I have never spoken in disparaging terms of Johnny. He was suicidal when I met him. He took his own life because he could not control the changes that he so desperately wanted to make. Lopez twisted my bittersweet memories of Johnny and falsely implied that...
...Also Lopez did not listen to the best-evidence tapes of Shah threatening his ex-wife, even though I offered him a bag filled with such tapes. He could have heard the real truth coming from Shah's own mouth, but Lopez listened to only a few minutes of recordings. In addition, Lopez portrayed me as a dysfunctional attention seeker, when in fact I have never sought media attention, though I have cooperated with the media from time to time. I now fear that Ellen Dever and other would-be protective parents, as well as my own family, will suffer...
TIME did not mean to suggest that Yager was present when her second husband committed suicide, and apologizes for any misunderstanding. As noted in the story, Yager told Steve Lopez that Ellen Dever had taken the tape recording containing Shah's alleged threats on her life away with...
American Tibetan-style Buddhists, however, will have to digest the occultism, interschool feuding and occasional violence that have long marked the culture they thought was their model. Donald S. Lopez Jr., a professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies and author of an important new book, Prisoners of ShangriLa: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, says the fracas will help Americans realize they "have a bowdlerized version of Tibetan Buddhism." Editor Tworkov goes further. "This allows us as Westerners to ask, How do we bring this tradition into our society and our lives, and what is best left behind in Tibet...
...Steve Lopez...