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...does your wife feel about your racing habit? She wishes I was more of a monk...
Which is another way of saying that Black is a guy who's funny in movies rather than a funny guy who happens to be in movies. (Think of the difference between Bill Murray and Adam Sandler.) In Nacho Libre, out June 16, he plays a half-Mexican monk who starts wrestling to earn money for his order's beloved orphans. Because Black wears tights and has a physique like a throw pillow, many people have tabbed Nacho as this summer's Wedding Crashers--an over-the-top comedy poised to do big business. As directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon...
...sometimes jailed. Nor do Tibetans have free rein to worship the Dalai Lama, who was not invited to the World Buddhist Forum in Hangzhou two weeks ago. The main speaker was the Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama, who in 1995 was named by the Chinese in place of the child monk the Dalai Lama himself had chosen for a key position in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy. Even in the new China, it is Beijing-and not any other higher power-that possesses the mandate of heaven...
Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
...inspired her to take on. Recently she initiated a book-collection project for a library in Nigeria. "We're not sending trashy things," she explains. "We got 1,500 solid books." The Agbims say this type of focus has helped bring them closer to God. "You are not a monk," says Silas. "It is in the workplace that God expects you to show him your skills, to do your bit and serve...