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LUMBINI, NEPAL: Beneath the Maya Devi temple to Buddha's mother in this southwestern Nepal town lies a recently uncovered complex of rooms that may transform this remote hamlet into a sort of mecca for the world's 340 million Bhuddists. After carefully studying the chambers discovered 9 months ago, a multinational team of archaeologists has announced that the rooms prove that ancient inscriptions claiming the site is Buddha's birthplace are true. The inscriptions were found on a pillar at the ancient Maya Devi temple erected by Ashoka, an Indian king who converted to Buddhism and spread the religion...
...doubt on each of those assertions. Amid dozens of the documented contacts between the Clintons and McDougals on Whitewater-related issues, a 1981 letter sent by Hillary Clinton to Jim McDougal was especially ironic. "If Reaganomics works at all," wrote Mrs. Clinton, "Whitewater could become the western hemisphere's Mecca...
...Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping on the assembled press corps." In one of the documents, Hillary Clinton says: "If Reaganomics works at all, Whitewater will be the western hemisphere's mecca...
...overcrowding as the First Entourage sweeps through. About a half-decade ago, Subarus full of Easterners and Range Rovers stuffed with Californians started trekking to the Rocky Mountain states. The refugees were tired of big-city life, traffic jams, crime and shopping malls, so they moved to a new mecca, stretching from Montana to New Mexico, where the air was clean and the water was clear. It was paradise, except for the fact that it needed more strip malls, so those were promptly built. And pretty soon some of the friends and relatives of the settlers moved in, which meant...
...went directly from Lagos, Nigeria, to the University of Houston in 1983, has always had a sweet, kind nature, but until a few years ago, he often vexed referees, teammates and management while living the N.B.A. life to the fullest. But in 1992 he made his first hajj to Mecca, renewed his faith in Islam and added the H to his first name. Since then he has carried a prayer rug and a compass with him wherever he goes, and he has been at peace with the Rockets, opponents and, most important, himself. "You try your best to please...