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...meters Top elevation of Tibet's first railway, set to become the highest in the world...
...their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind of wished would happen. But the absence of new Beastie music has had the effect of magnifying the wise and obscuring the wiseass. "That's strategy," says Horovitz. "We figure if we space our music...
Active in both student government and Free Tibet at Exeter, she says that it was only after arriving at Harvard that her ethnic identity was awakened...
When Tenzin Gyatso was born, in 1935, fewer than 2,000 Westerners had ever set foot in his remote and inhospitable country. No Dalai Lama had ever ventured outside Asia. Now, largely thanks to him, Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism are a cherished part of many a neighborhood. Since being driven into exile by Chinese troops in 1959, the Dalai Lama has set up more than 50 flourishing Tibetan communities in exile, overseen the transmission of his culture and its religion around the world and ensured that his homeland will have a life in many countries even as it is losing...
This process has not been easy. The Dalai Lama has made little headway in protecting the 6 million Tibetans who live in Tibet. And he has not been able to visit his own country in 45 years. Yet amid all he has lost, he has given something indelible to the world. He has shown that justice and nonviolence have a power of their own and converted the extremely rigorous precepts of his philosophy into lucid truths that people of any faith can learn from. And he has shown that globalism can be a way of taking seriously the idea that...