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...happy with this.' HEATHER MILLS, on a $48.6 million settlement in her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney...
Pico first visited with the Dalai Lama when he was 17, in the sheltered settlement of Dharamsala, in the foothills of the Himalayas. After Tibet opened up to the world, Pico made three additional trips there. In April 1988, Pico wrote a major profile of the Dalai Lama for TIME and later went to Tibet to report for us on what that peaceful society was going through under martial law. As fans of his travel writings know, Pico's curiosity has led him to nearly every corner of the globe, but he has always found himself returning to the monk...
...Dalai Lama calls "demographic aggression" by launching a high-speed train linking Lhasa to Beijing and other Chinese cities, thus allowing 6,000 more Han Chinese to flood into the Tibetan capital every day. Lhasa, sometimes known as an "abode of the gods," has turned from the small traditional settlement I first saw in 1985 into an Eastern Las Vegas, with a population of 300,000 (two out of every three of them Chinese). On the main streets alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace...
...Smyth says the settlement, though huge and "highly unusual," wasn't unprecedented. The McCanns say the money will go to the fund they set up to help find Madeleine. It's possible, Smyth says, the newspaper group decided the cost of the penalty was worth the "commercial advantage they received for obsessively covering every twist and turn...
...suppose that Heather Mills isn't the world's greatest Beatles fan, but today she might well believe in yesterday. Less than 24 hours after she emerged from London's Royal Courts of Justice to pronounce herself "very, very happy" with her 24.3 million pound ($49 million) divorce settlement from Paul McCartney, she failed in a bid to stop the judge who decided the award from publishing his reasons for doing so. She said she was appealing against publication to protect the privacy of her four-year-old daughter Beatrice, apparently the only positive issue of the less-than-four...