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...worked with Mailer on four previous books. "It wasn't an easy road to travel with both our egos," Schiller says. It was Schiller who brought Mailer the interviews that were the seed of Mailer's last indisputably great work, The Executioner's Song, about Gary Gilmore's path to death row. Schiller figures in the book as one of the media carnivores who moved in on the story. Even if you don't count the chapter in which Schiller has diarrhea, it is not a pretty picture. Schiller says he's fine with it: "I got through that...
...cool, invigorating breeze that calls out for an evening stroll. The reward is a brilliant display of stars undiminished by city lights. And should disorientation set in, the ever- present hawkers, many of whom live at the temples, are happy to set misguided travelers back on the right path home...
...This is what the underboss of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate, or the "D-Company," told me in September of 1999. But life took him down the opposite path. Instead of dying for his country, he was sitting in a mansion in Karachi, a guest of the enemy country, unable to return to his birthplace, afraid of being liquidated at any moment by his hosts...
...Sanitsuda draws consolation from several encouraging trends. Modern, socially engaged monks, such as noted author and Sangha member Phra Paisan Visalo, serve as role models for some, working with civic groups to try and steer Thailand's often greed-driven development onto a more just, equitable and environmentally friendly path. Among the middle class, there has been a remarkable rise in the popularity of meditation retreats. And Professor Sunthorn Narangsri of Chulalongkorn University's Buddhist Studies Center says the monk police have also proved surprisingly effective...
Whether Summers listens to these students and helps others follow in the path that was opened for him is still open for question. The answer, though, is clearly “perhaps...