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Under a vast plain of dried mud, set between southern Taiwan's lush mountains, 400 bodies still lie that were buried alive three weeks ago in typhoon Morakot, the island's most recent and deadly natural disaster. The now infamous village of Siaolin - the worst hit by Morakot - was the first stop for the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader-in-exile, on his visit to Taiwan this week. Wrapped in his saffron and maroon robes, he sat in the traditional leg-cross on a blue and gold straw mat, overlooking the tragic plain, and recited Tibetan prayers. He then stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dalai Lama Meets Protests, Tears in Taiwan | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...work directly with students and clients. According to London, LSC previously had 25 employees, nine of whom have been moved to Cambridge.Robert Greenwald, a senior LSC clinical instructor who will be serving as the Center’s managing attorney this year, emphasized that the Jamaica Plain clinics are committed to providing legal services to the community, despite the cuts. But he also said that while administrators “did their best to minimize the impact [of the cuts] on both students and services,” there was “no question [that] it?...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Clinics Face Cuts | 8/30/2009 | See Source »

...main complaint that online protesters have, though, is that the newly adopted font is plain ugly. Especially when it's enlarged to, say, the size of a catalogue headline. Or worse yet, a billboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Verdana | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...stunning new gallery of Buddhist sculpture at London's Victoria and Albert Museum makes plain, somewhere along the line the reticence about rendering the Buddha's likeness gave way, and the world embarked on two millenniums of rich iconography and statuary. The gallery's 47 masterworks, culled from the museum's renowned Asian collections, trace the Buddha's portrayal from the 2nd to 19th centuries, in places as diverse as India, Java and Japan. (See 10 things to do in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Revelation: Buddhist Sculpture at the V&A | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...people might still invite reprisals - indeed, U.S. counterterrorism officials told the New York Times Wednesday that the trial had showed the limits of using criminal law as a weapon against terrorism, because the real authors of the attack remained unpunished. Read the subtext of those comments, and it's plain to see why there's unlikely to be a mea culpa from Colonel Ghaddafi anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the West Will Be in no Rush to Lift Libya Sanctions | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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