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The deeper issue, as the Dalai Lama always stresses, is that names and forms are unimportant so long as something more fundamental is sustained. The Buddha's job-and therefore that of his most prominent contemporary student-was not just to be clear-sighted and compassionate but also to show...
“I know a lot of Iraqis and they’re friends of mine, and it terrifies me, and they’re terrified,” says Senor, who is currently writing a book about the Middle East. “Even our biggest critics inside...
The most recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has confirmed what many critics of higher education have long suspected: Concerning pedagogical matters at Harvard, the lunatics now run the asylum.After somewhat heated debate, and much delay, the Faculty finally mandated that professors must offer ?...
Afghan General Sabir has also noted an influx of foreigners. "It is a world-wide network," he says. Security officials in Kabul say Pakistan is a major source of fighters and funds, and name a former colonel of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency as a key figure behind the Taliban...
His love affair with mountains began at age 16, when, on a school excursion, Hillary sighted Mount Ruapehu, a 2,797-m active volcano. "There was snow everywhere," he recalled over 50 years later. "It was a bright moonlit night, a brilliant, marvelous sight to me." Hillary dropped out of...