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...They had to pretend they didn’t know each other," Jafar said. "The entire plane ride, they didn’t even speak to each other or have eye contact until they had left Iraq and landed in another country...
...Gelfand and Gowen speak to the oft-lamented fact that undergraduates are too young to be able to make a set-in-stone decision about life, and aren’t always ready to give up the interdisciplinary learning that is provided by liberal arts...
...Dalai Lama continues to speak out against the goal of independence as unrealistic - much to the chagrin of an increasingly militant younger generation of Tibetans - and has called instead for "genuine" autonomy for Tibet. The Dalai Lama continues to reiterate his firm commitment to policies that have been rejected by many younger Tibetan activists as ineffectual. On Tuesday, he reaffirmed his preference for dialogue and coexistence with the Chinese, threatening to resign his political leadership role if the confrontation with Beijing continued, and urging restraint among Tibetan activists aiming to confront the Chinese. Clearly, the Dalai Lama is concerned that...
...creating its own world, with its own time and space and memory system," he says. They recognize what's of real value, and they encode it, and it forms an architecture of memory." Yes, says Bruce Lawrence, the head of Islamic Studies at Duke University, who was invited to speak at a nearby synagogue when the beginnings of Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan happened to coincide last year...
...things only as they are, to come up with a clear diagnosis and then to suggest a practical response-is one of the things that have made the current Dalai Lama such a startling and tonic figure on the world stage. There are few monks in any tradition who speak so rarely about faith while rejecting anything that has been disproved by scientific inquiry; on his desk at home, he keeps a plastic model of the brain with detachable parts so that he can take it apart, put it together again and see how it works. And there are even...