Word: accession
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...Tibetan Buddhism - has fled to Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's headquarters in India. It was reported Friday that the boy fled after the Chinese authorities, who had used their official relationship with the Karmapa as evidence of their tolerance of Tibetan Buddhism, broke promises to allow the boy access to his spiritual teacher in India. Beijing had officially recognized the boy, chosen by monks at the Karma Kagyu order's headquarters in Sikkim, India, and had championed him as a Tibetan spiritual leader who accepted China's authority in the disputed territory. His defection may be the most serious...
...arms at a portion of the report detailing the rise in drug-induced abortions, a procedure they say is more attractive than surgery and will ultimately promote an increase in terminations. Meanwhile, pro-choice groups such as Planned Parenthood complain that the abortion decline stems from limited access to abortion clinics and fear of attack by pro-life extremists...
...system this weekend when it blacked out its Fox network from three Cox Cable systems. The reason? Cox is refusing to carry two new Fox channels on all of its cable systems. Cox says the timing is a low blow since it leaves Virginia and Texas residents without TV access to their local NFL teams just as the playoffs are beginning. The spat shows just how much America's TV landscape has changed - long gone are the days when the tube was dominated by three networks zapped through the airwaves onto your rabbit ears. Now six networks and a gaggle...
...first is that art is continuous. It is not--whatever the avant-gardists may crudely suppose--locked in an Oedipal battle with its past. Every masterpiece contains the genes of earlier masterpieces, as Manets and Daumiers do of Goyas, as Goyas do of Velasquezes. Second, art gives us access to a paradise of the intelligent senses that, once attained, justifies itself. Its aim is pleasure. Thus, Phillips had a fascinated respect for Picasso's anxiety but no great paintings by him, whereas Braque was wholly another matter. Braque's lucid and calm balance drew the American like a magnet...