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...logic seems as tortured as a position from the Kama Sutra, but Clinton's potential argument (which was tested last week on TIME reporters by a high-level presidential confidant) comes down to two basic presidential passions, one still alleged, the other long proved. The alleged passion is for fellatio. According to a lawyer who has heard them, the Lewinsky tapes show that when it comes to intimacy, the infamously reckless Clinton is a play-it-safe puritan. Facetiously referring to herself as the future "special assistant to the President for b___ j___," Lewinsky reportedly told Linda Tripp that Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: When Sex Is Not Really Having Sex | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina Turner, is also nominally a Japanese Mahayana offshoot, although rather atypical in its teaching that the repetition of a four-word phrase, translatable as "Devotion to the mystic law of the Lotus Sutra [scripture]," can gain adherents happiness and material amenities in this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...heels of Mira Nair's scintillating Kama Sutra (at the Kendall last spring) comes Deepa Mehta's newest film Fire opening today at the Coolidge Corner theater in Brookline...

Author: By Kishan Putta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Indian Film Catches 'Fire' | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...Thich Giac Duc, the priest of the Unity Buddhist Congregation, read from the Maha Pranya Sutra, the Mahayana Buddhist liturgy for the dead. Two assistants burned incensed and chanted as Duc recited the half-hour-long liturgy in Sanskrit, Vietnamese and Chinese...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...poet decorated all his autographs with a mysterious "AH" enclosed in a circle, symbolizing a Japanese Zen one-syllable summary of afterlifeappreciation. He even drew sunflowers reminiscentof his poem "Sunflower Sutra" for some lucky fans...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Poet Allen Ginsberg Draws Admirers | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

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