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...crests the Tibetan wave, building roughly since the Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Richard Gere pioneered the full religiopolitical embrace years ago, but he may have found a successor in Adam Yauch, 33, singer for the punk-rap group the Beastie Boys. Not only has Yauch guided his famously irreverent band into songs like Bodhisattva Oath; he is also primary architect of two Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits that became instant touchstones for a Gen X phenomenon quickly dubbed Tibet Chic. Like the new movies, the concerts' first concern was political but they too opened with that signature chanting...
...basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball," an emotional Smith said at his farewell news conference Thursday afternoon. "It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well." Traveling, recruiting, giving speeches, signing autographs: the duties attendant to a working icon. Bill Guthridge, Smith's longtime assistant and likely successor, knew it too. "It's all the little things that wore Dean...
...give, endlessly, without the expectation of receiving anything but gratitude from her congregation of the poor, sick, dying and abandoned. In Calcutta she was free to live and carry out her life's mission in a state that has for many years been governed by a communist majority. Her successor, Sister Nirmala, was free to give up her Hindu religion and embrace Mother Teresa's philosophy in the Roman Catholic tradition. And politicians of many a hue were wary about interfering with her goodness. Weep not, for much good has come from this frail and wonderful woman. LEKHA SUBAIYA...
...loss was immediately felt," said R. Alan Ezekowitz, the current Wilder professor of pediatrics and Medearis' successor at MGH. "We miss him already...
...much to strip the place of cobwebs, break down its seniority system and open the way to more stylish writing. In later years, however, his reign became autocratic and oppressive--creating a now legendary "climate of fear" that the newspaper is still trying to shake off. Rosenthal's successor as executive editor, Max Frankel, tried diligently to lighten the mood and loosen up the front page, with more life-style and culture stories...