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When I left Dharamsala at dawn, the Dalai Lama was leading his monks in a three-hour ceremony while the sun came up behind the distant snowcaps. It struck me that the man has lived out a kind of archetypal destiny of our times: a boy born in a peasant village in a world that had scarcely seen a wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos...
Among that three-goal deluge were two Harvard own goals. Asano tipped the first in by accident. A shot was skidding wide, and Asano tried to get it out from in front of the net. Misfortune struck Harvard again when sophomore defenseman Courtney Smith tried to pass the puck to Bowdoin...
...well to worry. Mike Curb--the Californian who, in another life, produced hits by the Four Seasons, the Osmonds and Debby Boone (her version of You Light Up My Life was the '70s' top-selling single) and, from 1978 to 1982, served as Lieutenant Governor of California--has struck country gold on his Curb label with Tim McGraw (Indian Outlaw) and ridden Rimes to multiplatinum. Curb sees the payoff beyond the pain: "If a record is different, it's going to be harder to get it played. But you get a bigger return when you get it played...
...audience-pleaser, though, was a wonderful acoustic rendition of "Tangled Up In Blue," the most well-known song from his arguably best album, 1974's Blood On The Tracks. Embellished by the mandolin-playing of Bucky Baxter (who manned the pedal steel guitar most of the night), this favorite struck a particularly responsive chord...
...they become much easier to find in the bleak of winter, when they brave all manner of snow and ice to see films about angst set amidst the very same snow and ice. This month alone, we have films about a schoolbus crashing in the snow, a town struck by an ice storm and Emma Thompson as a widow who takes pictures of snow and ice. No kidding; these folks can be a chilly bunch...