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...shouldn’t be surprised that during Tuesday’s “Rock the Vote” debate among the Democratic presidential hopefuls, the media chose to zone in on the most sound-bytable portion of the political slug-fest: the antagonizing of current frontrunner Howard Dean for his recent contentious comment, “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” Sure, the candidates spoke about a lot more than just the former Vermont governor and his stance on the stars and bars...
...time from substantive debate. Anderson opened the discourse with the ostensibly noble assertion that he wanted to “try to keep things real” and avoid producing meaningless sound bytes. Yet, with his encouragement, the first few minutes of debate became an all-out assault on Howard Dean...
...Buddhists who were not originally Unitarian or some other religious affiliation, the practice of Buddhism can be quite different. Meghan C. Howard ’04 is one such example. Drawn to Buddhism by a Zen text, her parents were Zen Buddhist until she was four, when a Tibetan lama visited Rochester, N.Y. “They were so moved,” Howard says, that they became Tibetan Buddhist and helped set up the local dharma center, which they now run. Howard laughs as she recounts the long hours she spent at the dharma center as a child, saying...
...Howard is sometimes disturbed by the picking and choosing that many American Buddhists practice, especially when people use Buddhist doctrine to justify prior beliefs. “If you bring all your baggage with you, rather than using Buddhism to investigate your political beliefs,” you’re not actually subscribing to Buddhism, she says. She does recognize, however, the importance of testing beliefs before internalizing them. “My faith in Buddhism has grown because of testing [what I’m told],” she says. “Otherwise it?...
...brother, Howard K. Koh—who was an undergraduate and medical school student at Yale—is the associate dean of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health...