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...respected and successful Open University, an off-campus program that has enrolled some 200,000 students since it began a decade ago. A joint undertaking with the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Open University has inspired counterparts in 16 countries, including West Germany, Costa Rica, Spain and Sri Lanka...
...continuous wall of dull brick that makes up Beacon Hill's Charles Street. Behind the counter, Marion Lennihan, dressed in a flowing yellow sarong, finishes cutting up enough tofu and egg salad sandwiches for the expected lunchtime rush from nearby Mass General Hospital. Lennihan is a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian teacher who arrived in the U.S. in 1964 and began attracting followers soon after. Several pictures of the guru hang on the wall, showing Chinmoy playing tennis, jogging, and sitting on a ledge smiling out at the world with a beatific...
...While we have much to learn from the East, Sri Chinmoy also stresses Western values of action, productivity," she says. "He really, really respects Harvard as the pinnacle of Western culture, that's why he's donated so much to the University." Chinmoy has given 300 works to the Divinity School library, as well as music and paintings, and his followers continue to hold regular meditation classes in Phillips Brooks House. Earlier this year several hundred people attended his "Weekend Workshops in Self-Awareness" at the Science Center. Besides the health food store, Chinmoy group members will soon open...
When the Iranians understand the Koran, states Sri Lanka's ascetic M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a teacher in the mystical Sufi movement, now living in Philadelphia, "they will release the hostages immediately." Muhaiyaddeen has sent Khomeini three fervent epistles, urging him to free the captives and repent of his vengeance lest Islam be further disgraced before the world. Even in Iran, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, second only to Khomeini in popularity, privately considers the embassy seizure an "abuse of Islam" and has told a confidant: "I have never been so worried in my life -not only about Iran but also...
...criticism aimed at the White House for its handling of the hostage crisis. Specifically, the critics had charged that Carter had given in to the militants by approving a special United Nations commission proposed by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The job of the five commissioners-lawyers from Algeria, France, Sri Lanka, Syria and Venezuela-was to investigate Iranian grievances against the deposed Shah and his U.S. supporters, and also to check on the health and safety of the American hostages...