Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a fortnight, his homeland had been torn by violent protest against its Chinese occupiers. Now, from his place of exile in Dharmsala, the Himalayan hill town in northern India where he has lived for most of the past 28 years, the Dalai Lama spoke. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism sought to explain the rioting that had rocked Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on the other side of the Himalayas, and the harshness of the Chinese response. Inevitably, Peking blamed the Dalai Lama, 52, for instigating the demonstrations that inflamed his people both at home and in exile...
...Then catch this, from David Mamet. When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, he cares less about how you conducted yourself than whether you won or lost. The Guy's into irony. And cruel surprise endings. What's the point of running the only game in town if you can't have your little jokes...
...this time of year, the Cabo de Hornos Hotel in Punta Arenas (pop. 100,000) is ordinarily filled with tourists who spend their days browsing in the local tax-free shops or mounting expeditions into the rugged, mountainous countryside just out of town. But the 120 mostly American scientists and technicians who converged on Chile's southernmost city for most of August and September ignored advertisements for hunting, hiking and ski tours. Instead, each day they scanned the bulletin board in the hotel lobby for the latest information on a different sort of venture...
...fascinating discussion with President Reagan the other day," Willie told us yesterday, as he dipped a donut into his Irish coffee. "He was telling me about the time when he was 12 and his dog ran away. He looked and looked all over town and couldn't find it anywhere. Then he came home and found the dog under...
SOUTHBORO--Dr. Ronald D. Hunt, director of Harvard's New England Primate Center, smiles as his visitors confess to missing a turn on the tortuous back roads of Southboro--a New England town just over a half-hour's drive from Boston. Secluded in Harvard's 140 acres of forest, behind a sign advertising the Harvard Southboro Campus, the primate center is easy to pass. While drop-in visitors are not welcome, the Center is at times willing to give tours of the facilities...