Word: lama
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...report from a group of Chinese scholars has for the first time challenged China's official explanation that the deadly riots that broke out across Tibet in March, 2008, were inspired by "overseas forces" - namely the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile. (Read "One Year After Protests, an Enforced Silence on Tibet...
...these countries are plagued by repressive rulers. But none of these places grips the popular imagination like this isolated nation in the heartland of Asia. With its thuggish ruling junta and defiant, beautiful opposition leader, Burma inspires unparalleled international sympathy and the passions of do-gooders. Only the Dalai Lama rivals fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi when it comes to dissident magnetism - and, even so, the Tibetan monk has not languished under house arrest for much of the past two decades...
...impressive public enterprises portfolio. As an AIDS activist in the country with the world's biggest HIV/AIDs population, Hogan might have been great - and a refreshing corrective to Mbeki. But she is also a person of singular conscience - and criticized her own government's decision to refuse the Dalai Lama entry to a conference in South Africa last month. Even after 15 years in power, the ANC remains a revolutionary party and doesn't take kindly to what it perceives as indiscipline. Out went Hogan...
...seconds I discovered the Mazda 5 minivan, with manual transmission, which averages 24 miles per gallon, spews just 4.1 tons of carbon and sips a mere 7.6 barrels per year. It's a van that a guy could proudly drive to a lunch with Al Gore and the Dalai Lama, with just one downside: evidently we would have to grease the kids before squishing them into the tiny backseat...
...going to write you a love song...”) Members of the Harvard Class of 2013 Facebook.com group: 1,208 members Number of posts under “Trying on APs?... Is it worth it anymore?”: 25 Number of trees planted for the Dalai Lama: 1 tree Number of student and faculty members present at Memorial Church, for the Dalai Lama’s talk, “Educating the Heart”: over 900 Number of cars secured for Dalai Lama and his crew: Entourage-worthy Number of cases of “probable?...