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When he arrived in New York seven weeks ago, expatriate Tibetan Buddhists, American devotees and interested followers thronged the airport to chant greetings to the Dalai Lama. Through weeks of appearances and talks in eleven cities, innumerable colleges, Buddhist centers and public forums, his welcome remained strong. And although he came to Harvard at the invitation of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), the Dalai Lama's significance as a religious leader here and elsewhere seems to be more than simply academic...
...Shangri-la" after Tibet. Heinrich Harrer, a European mountaineer who served as tutor to the Dalai Lama during the 40s, wrote in wonder of a land where one quarter of the adult population were monks or nuns. In his travels through Tibet. Harrer noted that there were no public inns. Tibetans opened their homes to all travelers, he wrote, as if grateful for the opportunity to serve. Harrer encountered niches of subtropical vegetation growing amidst snow-covered montains, monasteries built upon seemingly inaccessible cliffs, and mediums who, in trance, bent swords with their minds alone. Perhaps most significant, however...
ECONOMISTS aren't the only people who don't understand what's happening to the American economy; their confusion just shows more than anybody else's--they're supposed to understand. But the public today hears only conflicting reports--"We're sailing in uncharted waters," "This is unexplored territory," and a growing fear that the 50th anniversary of the 1929 disaster may be more than a mere commemoration...
WHILE ACADEMIC ECONOMICS roils in disagreement, Volcker has set the terms for a larger national debate from now till the 1980 elections. No one doubts that inflation is the American public's white whale, the unknown menace the government must first locate and then destroy. But experts and laymen alike disagree over where to begin looking. Liberal economists and their political bedfellows argue that narrow monetary policy can't solve domestic inflation when well over half that inflation traces its lineage to the tankered waters of the Persian Gulf. If OPEC intends further price hikes--as it apparently does--then...
Once the office of environmental affairs is satisfied, the state secretary of administration and finance must still hold his own public hearings and issue a final decision. Most observers say that ground-breaking ceremonies for the complex, designed by the Cambridge Kennedy Square Associaties, are at least a year away...