Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 50 people showed up in Harvard Hall to listen to a mother's story about a battle to free her only son. Students to Free Tibet, led by Sonia Inamdar '01, brought Dekyi to Harvard as she toured East Coast schools to gather support for the movement to free...
Choephel was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Chinese government in 1995 for carrying out "espionage activities" for the Tibetan government-in-exile. At the time, he was in Tibet studying traditional Tibetan music and dance, his mother said...
Choephel was born in Tibet and raised by his mother in India where she fled in 1968, leaving her husband behind. Choephel, who is now 31, was a teacher of Tibetan instruments and music in India...
While we're on the subject of music, I guess there's that whole "Free Tibet" thing, the current cause du jour (see "Burma"). Hey, I went to the concert. And, believe me, everybody there was into freeing Tibet, as long as it involved taking off your top and listening to Pearl Jam. But even if few of the spectators ended up getting directly involved with the Free Tibet movement, I suppose the concert was successful in doing what trendy events do best, "raising awareness," which is another way of saying, "nothing tangible, but please keep sending money...
...said that continents floated on some 20 crustal plates, 60 miles thick, kept in motion by ... yeah, well, we'll figure that out later. But in the 1960s and '70s more geologists than not had signed on to the theory. Most agreed, for instance, that India had rammed into Tibet at high speed (and is still ramming), heaving up former ocean floor to create the Himalayas...