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...cover portrait of the Dalai Lama is courtesy of another name familiar to TIME readers: James Nachtwey. Pairing Pico with Nachtwey, the planet's pre-eminent news photographer, seemed like journalistic Nirvana. The two first worked together in South Korea, 20 years ago. Jim, who has devoted his life to documenting wars and tragedy and famine everywhere from El Salvador to the West Bank to the Sudan, had always told us that if he ever had the chance to photograph the Dalai Lama, he would drop everything and do it. He got the chance and spent five days in March...
...together again and see how it works. And there are even fewer political leaders who work from the selfless positions and long-term vision of a monk (and doctor of philosophy). It's easy to forget that the Dalai Lama is by now the most seasoned ruler on the planet, having led his people for 68 years-longer than Queen Elizabeth II, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand or even Fidel Castro...
...This has made the Tibetan exile community one of the success stories among refugee groups in recent decades. But no less important, perhaps, it has offered a possibility to many others on a planet where there are, by some counts, as many as 33 million official and unofficial refugees. By showing how Tibet can exist internally, in spirit and imagination, even if it is barely visible on the map, the Dalai Lama has been suggesting to Palestinians, Kurds and Uighurs that they can maintain a cultural community even if they have lost their territory. Communities can be linked...
...could have been on a different planet because I had no military experience, and I had not served in government before and hadn’t been to the Middle East,” said Foley...
Stonehenge is arguably the most famous pile of rocks on the planet. The mysterious 5,000-year-old, neolithic stone circle majestically graces the grassy, rolling hills of England's Salisbury Plain, and is an instantly recognizable British icon. So much so, in fact, that its image was used to bolster London's winning bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1986. Of course, it's also a mecca for New-Age seekers, who see it as a center of mystical energy. Not surprisingly, then, Stonehenge draws throngs of visitors...