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Tsurphu, the capital of the Kagyupa (Black Hat) Tibetan Buddhist sect, is hidden at 4,480 m in the remote and desolate snow-capped peaks of central Tibet. Founded in the 1180s by the first Karmapa, it is a mere 50 km, but a rocky two-and-a-half-hour drive, from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The road is little more than a path distinguishable from the rest of the moonscape by the occasional tire track. My Lhasa-born Tibetan driver has to stop twice to ask farmers the way. Finally we reach a rickety bridge over a fast...
...culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological right-wing sect to one that championed free elections, civil society and honest government. Fox pushed that transformation so hard that he eventually alienated himself from much of the P.A.N. hierarchy. He governs essentially as an individual--perhaps the ultimate expression of American political values...
...harshly as before. Father Ly may have been hauled in, "re-educated" and placed under church arrest, but he has not been jailed, as he was in 1983. There are other examples of official softening: Hanoi recently recognized the formerly banned Protestant Christian churches and the Hua Hao Buddhist sect. U.S. Ambassador Pete Peterson, who flew to Washington last week to lobby for the trade agreement, believes blocking the trade accord would send the wrong message. "The greatest thing we can do for human rights," he says, "is to increase economic activity...
That's where the question of Senator Clinton and the Skver sect comes in. Hillary Clinton has insisted she played no role in commuting the sentences of the four Hasidim, who stole more than $30 million in government grants, subsidies and loans, and that she did nothing unethical by attending two sessions with the leaders who sought their pardons. The first took place in the Rockland County village of New Square last August, while she was running for the Senate. State party operatives thought the tiny community--which had often voted in a bloc in the past--was a promising...
...next session came four months later, after the sect had delivered nearly 1,400 votes for Hillary and only 12 for Lazio. On the morning of Dec. 22, Grand Rabbi David Twersky and an associate went to the White House and tearfully appealed to the President to pardon Benjamin Berger, David Goldstein, Jacob Elbaum and Kalman Stern. Hillary attended the meeting in the White House Map Room but insists she did not participate in the conversation. "I did not play any role whatsoever," she told the Associated Press. "I had no opinion about...