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...face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his wrath only in defense of a 350-year-old purist interpretation of the Dalai Lama's own Gelugpa branch of Tibetan Buddhism. For decades the High Lama himself included Shugden in his daily prayers. But in 1976 he began preaching against the god; in 1996 he discouraged Shugdenites' participation...
...border. He fathered the modern American Navy, for example, while his peacemaking between Russia and Japan in 1905 elevated him to the front rank of presidential diplomats. He pushed through the Pure Food and Meat Inspection laws of 1906, forcing Congress to acknowledge its responsibility as consumer protector...
...April 1997, Lensky changed his diet from fish food to blood worms. "That was the pivotal moment in his life," said Marshall Lewy, Lensky's lifetime protector and mentor. "Most people say the key moment in his life was when he moved to New Hampshire. That was the most creative period of his life." During this summer, Dr. Bennett schooled him in several fields, such as canoe-building, silent film viewing, and how to cook salmon properly and apply a nice curry. But Lewy argues that, had it not been for the diet change, Lensky might never have lived...
White, wrote Kenney, "was respected and admired in the Cambridge academic-liberal community, and now Joe Kennedy had emerged as his protector and ally...
Hopefully, the changes currently being implemented in the blotter system will not only ensure accurate and complete reporting of criminal activity, but also improve HUPD's reputation as a reliable and effective protector of our community. It may take time, but the public will be grateful...