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...hands on it. One of the hardest things for many of the Americans who fell in love with Zen in the '60s and '70s to accept was that Zen didn't grow grubby with its arrival on American shores?it was that way already. While Zen insights may transcend the limits of culture, Zen as an organized religion doesn't, and never did. Zen is a school of Buddhism, and organized Buddhism is an institution?a product created amid the sludge and ambiguity of history by human beings with human failings (even if the best of these individuals might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dharma Bummers | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...Correa in the Department of Government, Allan Callahan at Harvard Divinity School, Eileen de los Reyes at Graduate School of Education and K. Anthony Appiah in the Afro-American Studies and Philosophy Departments, who left to more accepting and appreciative environments within the past year? Rather than endeavoring to transcend the color line, the recent incident between University President Lawrence H. Summers and West has accentuated a practice of unfair treatment at Harvard...

Author: By Luis S. Hernandez jr., LUIS S. HERNANDEZ JR. | Title: West Fights for Minority Rights | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...attract others. Women are just as guilty as men. Pick up any edition of Cosmopolitan and one can find the monthly installment of tried and proven pick-up tips or captions telling women the essential personality traits they need to possess to be like those golden girls who transcend ordinary looks...

Author: By Jasmine J. Mahmoud, | Title: Love Me Tender, Love Me True | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...more determined than ever to market the meaning, began talking about the Games as a chance for restoring America's hope. There were recollections of the 1980 U.S. hockey team that won its proxy war against the Soviets, who themselves were then at war in Afghanistan. These Games would transcend even politics and patriotism on their way toward therapy. "This is an important event under any circumstance," Utah Governor Mike Leavitt had said a few weeks after the attacks, "but fate may have fallen upon this state and city to host an event where the world will come together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope And Glory | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

Bergoust, a.k.a. Air Bergy, the defending gold medalist in aerial skiing, sees these Games as a huge opportunity for his sport to "transcend skiing." Says he: "An aerials event in sunny blue sky is the most beautiful thing." Aerials tickets sold out before the downhill tickets, and competition will take place in front of some 13,000 fans in a festive atmosphere at Deer Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Way For The Gate Crasher | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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