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...distinctive set of follies and foibles. Evangelizing America, it turns out, was only part of the master's plan. He also nurtured the somewhat grandiose dream of using his new American followers to help him revitalize Zen in Japan itself, where empty formalism and corruption were increasingly becoming the norm. By almost all accounts, Suzuki's choice to leave Baker as his only legitimate American dharma heir was a disaster, and Suzuki himself even seemed to be aware of this fact beforehand. Why, then, did he insist on doing so? Keeping the enormous enterprise of Zen Center going, Suzuki knew...
...violent political alternative through which disenfranchised peoples can pursue their national goals. History's lesson is that whatever victories an occupying army wins against a popular guerrilla enemy are almost invariably temporary. Political solutions that would be labeled by the hawks as "rewarding terrorism" are in fact the norm in solving armed conflicts...
...chairman of the House G.O.P.'s campaign committee, has set off howls by anointing individual candidates in contested primaries across the country. And Rove's minesweepers cleared the Republican field of all but token opposition for Senate candidates Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, John Thune in South Dakota and Norm Coleman in Minnesota, who is running against incumbent Democrat Paul Wellstone. Rove called Coleman's expected primary rival, Minnesota house majority leader Tim Pawlenty, and asked him to step aside. After Pawlenty turned Rove down, Cheney called him with the same message--less than two hours before Pawlenty...
...that she might damage her reconstructed nose, Jones was only too willing to step in after Amy Fisher's parole officer forbade her to participate in the bout against TONYA HARDING. It would seem Harding and Jones haven't watched many professional boxing weigh-ins, where taunting is the norm. Instead, the two interacted warmly when they met before their slug fest. The March 13 bill will also pair Todd Bridges of Diff'rent Strokes against rapper Vanilla Ice, as well as Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family against The Brady Bunch's Barry Williams. If the show expands into...
...innocence, the betrayal of a priestly trust, the rape of a minor's very body provide about as good a definition of evil as one can find. Yet a church that regularly condemns and judges so many of its congregants for comparatively minor sexual variations on the married heterosexual norm permits and covers up far worse offenses among...