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Gandhi sought God, not orthodoxy. His daily prayers mixed traditional Hindu venerations with Buddhist chants, readings from the Koran, a Zoroastrian verse or two and the Christian hymn Lead, Kindly Light. That eclecticism reflected his great tolerance for all religions, one of his holiest--and least respected--precepts. "Truth," he...
"We never really decided on it," Levy said. "We were under the impression that returning things made it a moot point."
"The general public has the impression they all died out in the 1960s," says Michael Cummings, a University of Colorado, Denver, political scientist who has studied communes for 17 years. In fact, Cummings estimates, there are now tens of thousands of "intentional communities"--groups of people who reject conventional neighborhoods...
It's a risky strategy, though. Acknowledging that he's not much at absorbing the intricacies of government policy might leave the impression that Bush is sort of like Ronald Reagan, but it could also leave the impression that he's sort of like Dan Quayle. It's too early...
Dartboard was under the impression that the tension between the United States and Russia ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the events of the last several weeks showed us that relations between the two nations are far from warm and fuzzy. The arrest of an U.S. State...