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Howard Boggess, 64, a Crow historian, attended one of these parlays. Boggess, who is legally blind but can read and write with high-tech assistance, describes hearing a clash of many tongues. An Arapahoe elder offered a short prayer and invoked the valley's "sacredness." The Anschutz executives, as Boggess recalls, invoked their legal rights and complained about media coverage. The Indians too were worried about coverage because they feared revealing too much about their cherished valley. But when their letters to Denver and Washington went unanswered, they went public...
...very public "private life," Roberts has an Old Hollywood flair for the kooky plot twist. She ditched Kiefer Sutherland at the altar; married Lyle Lovett on a whim and a prayer; was linked with dishy actors like Jason Patric and Daniel Day-Lewis. Now she and Benjamin Bratt are phffft. But her eminence obliges her to have these affairs. Being a movie goddess is not only a skilled trade; it's tough work...
...often complex, not subject to simplistic generalization. Take the case of Thich Quang Duc. In Saigon, on June 11, 1963, the venerable 73-year-old Buddhist monk sat down in a busy intersection and had two monks pour gasoline over him. Thich lit a match, clasped his hands in prayer and burned himself to death. The horrifying dignity of his protest against government persecution stunned the world. Other monks followed in subsequent self-immolations, protesting against persistent religious suppression by the minority Catholic government in a nation with a long Buddhist past...
...says the perils are greater than ever. "We might be put in prison, we might be killed. If North Korea finds out you got to Seoul, they will find your relatives and kill them." The map is put away and another missionary leads the group in a brief prayer. One of the women preparing to leave is crying quietly. It is pouring outside, and soon the river will be rising. But the refugees won't stop coming...
...Summer Palace in Lhasa, where you can visit the former private rooms of the Dalai Lama, tourists don't get to see the Karmapa's old bedroom. Tsurphu hasn't become a museum: it is still a working monastery. We have arrived during a brief break in afternoon prayers and are able to walk inside the dim, main meditation hall and, with the aid of a flashlight, inspect the frescoes in the eerie silence. Between the singsong pujas (prayer sessions) that are punctuated by bells and drums, all Tibetan monasteries are quiet. Tsurphu feels more like it's coming back...