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...with that, a roomful of pols break into applause. It is a perfect Bradley moment, because his Zen-like musings on the power of no power are delivered at a proto-campaign stop in Greensboro, N.C., where 100 local activists, officials and campaign operatives have come to meet a not-quite-candidate who looks like he wants the real kind of power back. It is Jan. 21; the Lewinsky scandal has engulfed Washington this very day, and the news is racing through the crowd. "This could be good for Bradley," says an old friend of his, "but he'll wait...
With the fitness boom of the 1980s, healthy living became associated with noticeable muscles and no-pain, no-gain workouts. But if anything ever represented the Zen '90s, it's Pilates and the less-is-more body. "I used to look like Sylvester Stallone. People stared," clucks actress Sonia Braga, who's now keeping company with Pilates devotees like Madonna, Vanessa Williams and Sharon Stone. "What Pilates does is strengthen and elongate." Practitioners claim they double-cross genetics, getting fabulous bodies and feeling better with whiz-bang workouts that fit their hectic schedules. The number of Pilates studios has grown...
...Ross H. Fleischman '00, of Eugene, Ore., a Crimson editor, becoming a Zen Buddhist was one way to reconcile having the assurance of an established religion without having to rely on his Unitarian upbringing...
...Vietnamese-American Zen Buddhist who says she knows no non-Asian Buddhists at Harvard, says these are difficulties a non-Vietnamese might encounter at the Buddhist temple she goes to once a month, since services are conducted entirely in Vietnamese...
...came to Harvard looking for a [Buddhist] church to continue studying Buddhism...but Zen [which many converts practice]is very different from Jodo Shinshu," she says...