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...born in Taiwan in 1968. His father died when he was a toddler and his mother, an English professor, moved with her two sons to the U.S. in 1978. According to published reports, the only English word that Yang and his younger brother knew when they arrived in America was "shoe." The family eventually settled in San Jose, Calif...
...trained and ends her set with a darkly-beautiful, highly-technical piece. Like all the musicians here—Campbell included—she is astonishingly good at what she does. But what’s different about Campbell is that he’s at least a decade younger than any of the other performers. Campbell and his band take the stage and perform six pieces, two of which are Campbell’s own compositions. The trio closes with Chick Corea’s “Fingerprints”—a piece whose running melody...
...John [Kapusta] is exactly the age of all these young men who were slaughtered on the field,” he said. “The meditation I was experiencing while listening to this performance—it’s basically older men sending younger men to battle...
...question, then, of what the Dalai Lama hopes to achieve with this week's congress in Dharamsala, which continues until Saturday and which he won't attend until its close. Tibetologists and other analysts say there is a danger that the radical faction among the exiles, many of them younger members of the community who have criticized the Dalai Lama's self-described "third way" of trying to persuade Beijing to change its attitude on Tibet through negotiation, not independence, could rise to prominence. After all, as the Dalai Lama's representative Tenzin Taklha told reporters earlier in November...
...Tibet's parliament-in-exile, nongovernmental organizations and protest groups, comes at a critical time. After the Dalai Lama indicated recently that he had all but given up on negotiations with China over autonomy for Tibet, there has been increasing tension between Tibetan conservatives, who favor continuing talks, and younger radicals, who want to push for a free Tibet. After protests this March in Lhasa that turned violent, the radicals were energized. But since then they have been unable to channel their efforts constructively. "The community is feeling slightly lost and helpless," says Tsering Shakya, a Tibetan scholar and professor...