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These are the men in the middle now. Warrant Officer Kamal Aziz, a 29-year veteran of the Saddam-era police corps, spent a few weeks retraining last May, learning American-style arrest techniques and the basic art of urban warfare. "It was almost the same training as we had before," he says, standing guard outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have...
...DOING ABOUT IT? I have called attention to the fact that we are not happy with how China is handling its currency, and we have been pressing them to go to a free-market exchange rate and to remove capital controls so that their currency will reflect the basic forces of demand and supply. That way we'll know that it's fair, that American workers and firms aren't being hurt by an artificially set currency. We're going to stay engaged on that...
What Americans also find attractive in the meditation most commonly practiced here and in the ideals of Buddhism is the sense that one can affect one’s own destiny. Enlightenment is ultimately something one must achieve for oneself. These basic assumptions of self-reliance and self-empowerment are also intrinsic in modern Western culture and are exemplified by the popularity of self-help books. In fact, these self-improvement books inspired Piyush Tiwari ’05 to begin meditating again. He had practiced Hindu meditation with a music teacher in high school, but it was the self...
...students, McHardy, adheres to this view of Buddhism. McHardy’s simple linen garb, joined-palm greeting and the smell of incense that clings to her and anyone who enters her attic apartment set her apart from the t-shirt-and-jeans students who practice Buddhist meditation. Her basic conception of Buddhism is, however, surprisingly close to that of many who have not practiced with this anthropologist. As her large eyes focus on her listener, McHardy speaks slowly and precisely of what Shambhala Buddhism, her lineage, has taught her about itself. “It is about building...
...obviously as a concentration have to give people the nuts and bolts,” Rentschler says. Concentrators must learn the basic history of film and the theoretical tools necessary to “read” a film, he explains...