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...reverent silence of masters at work is broken only by tropical birdsong and the lilt of a distant gamelan, let us put you straight. Ubud is a hot and raucous place - and you're more likely to run into T shirt hawkers than artists. Visitors are also often struck by the uneven quality and random subject matter of the work on display. Many of the town's famous sculpture studios seem to prioritize commercial expedience over artistic tradition, and put a chaotic jumble of tat on sale - you'll come across everything from Christmas decorations to carvings of decidedly...
...meditating near the temple. With every major Buddhist community from Sri Lanka to Japan having constructed a monastery in the city, Bodh Gaya has virtually turned into a United Nations of Buddhism; at night, as Tibetan monks cycle around to buy groceries, the streets resound with gongs being struck from inside the various monasteries...
Bush's slow response to Katrina was a national disgrace. Officials knew that the storm was coming and that there was going to be massive devastation. The President should have been mobilizing troops and supplies long before the hurricane ever hit. After it struck, poor people died because they had no food and water and no way out. Hospital patients, including infants, died because hospitals had no supplies or power. Looting was rampant because troops were slow to be mobilized and there were too few of them. I bet that if Bush felt he needed the military in the Middle...
...interview prior to the meeting, he said that the original motivation for the campaign was to unite campus organizations with a common goal. The organizers decided to incorporate hurricane relief into the alliance’s wider anti-poverty efforts after Hurricane Katrina struck, he explained...
...different from last year,” Thoreson said, referring to the 2004 convention. “What struck me is you didn’t have the two really clearly divided sides...It was almost overwhelmingly for same-sex marriage...