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...DALAI LAMA by Pico Iyer...
...task of matching writer with subject. We turned first to our own staff and contributors. Cairo bureau chief Scott MacLeod, for example, wrote about the men behind the al-Jazeera network, Andrew Sullivan handled George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge critiqued Vladimir Putin, Pico Iyer made the case for the Dalai Lama, and Belinda Luscombe interviewed Nicole Kidman. Many of the profiles, however, were written by people who are not journalists but who have special insights into our selections. In two cases our writers--Warren Buffett on Bill Gates and Bono on Burmese dissident...
...responsibility, as we are of theirs. Long after his instant charisma is forgotten, he will be remembered as one who ensured a safe future for his culture outside Tibet and gave the rest of us an alternative home in what was once a very distant set of beliefs. --By PICO IYER, author of Sun After Dark
...country or even of the most penitent onetime torturer to be clear cut. But when the final piece of her moving puzzle falls into place, we, like the dew breaker's daughter, see just how much we didn't know when we were sure we knew it all. --By Pico Iyer...
...dispossession). Sometimes it feels as if all the neglected voices of the Pacific Northwest--self-righteous slackers, trailer-park priests, the sexually abused--are pouring through him in this book. What we choose to do with them, he suggests, has less to do with him than with ourselves. --By Pico Iyer...