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Then, rather suddenly, a further change occurred. Beginning in 1983 the community discovered to its horror that a probable majority of U.S. teachers, both foreign born and American, had abused their authority by sleeping with their disciples. In a particularly tragic case, the American regent of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism admitted that he had infected one of his students with HIV. The student had then transmitted it to his girlfriend. The result, in many schools, was a radical democratization, with leadership often subdivided to prevent abuse, and even a certain amount of government by consensus. "It doesn...
Instead, they endured with their people the horror of the blitz in London. The monarchy was, in those terrifying days, relevant and human. Today the royal family has shown us that it has become an irrelevant and valueless commodity. Britain should take what's left of the royals' obscene fortune and distribute it to the shelters and soup kitchens supported by Diana. She then will definitely not have died in vain. NEIL CARTER Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
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...Doors and JFK. But all that and more are in A Child's Night Dream, an autobiographical fantasy written in 1966-67. The book's Oliver follows the road of Stone's busy young life and often guns into the overdrive of desire (a meeting with Julie Christie) and horror (vivid images of a war he had not yet fought in). With punch-drunk punctuation and verbs-a-poppin' prose, Stone imitates Joyce, Kerouac, Mailer...
Edwards, who enrolled in the program 12 years ago as a kindergarten student, said she initially felt "horror getting into a bus to go to a place far away" and that she then underwent "trials and tribulations of racism, sexism and classism...