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Sometime during his first incarnation as leader of Tibet in the late 1500s, the Dalai Lama came to a momentous decision. For the sake of Tibet, he decided to reincarnate life after life in the same human niche, as leader of his country, to preserve its spiritual welfare. Each lifetime, before he dies, the Dalai Lama gives several clues as to where his soul will next be born...
Forty years and vast oceans of experience later, the Dalai Lama feels that his mission as a spiritual leader extends beyond Tibet. "As long as there are sentient beings to be liberated from suffering and unhappiness, I will work for the sake of all of them," he said last Thursday. Combining inner meditation with outward service, he embodies the central tenets of Tibet. The practice of kindness, compassion, and love for one's enemies, he says, brings a clear realization of the true nature of reality. "Compassion is something very forceful," he said, adding that it is a potent remedy...
...conference in Belgrade, where those same financiers had most likely given him a pep talk for such a program. Stock market investors ran scared, seeing only the deepening recession Volcker's plan would induce. Liberal politicians didn't like this talk of lowering the standard of living for the sake of such unromantic concepts as "managing the money aggregates." Bankers, who had always looked to the Fed as a bellwether for interest rates, were now free to set their own rates, and became insecure, as well as a bit surly...
...high point of the savagery levelled at Israel from the rest of the General Assembly. When he bound Zionism to Nazism, Castro mocked two concepts dear to the Jewish people--the integrity of history and the integrity of language. As Castro brandished the term "genocide" he trivialized, for the sake of immediate political gain, the past suffering of the Jews. But far more dangerously, this reckless misuse of the term bodes ill for oppressed all over the world. For as he toyed with the language of mass murder, Castro made the crime less horrible, more familiar; if he eventually succeeds...
...middle-aged graduates always greet Coutu after a game with a pat on the back. "They tell us how sweet we look," she says. She expects once they accept the cheerleaders' presence, the spectators will start cheering with them. Football player Pendergast hopes so too, for the cheerleaders sake. Right now, "the people in the stands do more laughing at them than cheering. Or at least that's what I hear on the bench." Pendergast believes the crowd's attitude bodes ill for the squad's future. "If they don't get support, I don't know how long they...