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...conscious effort” to recreate the close-knit chemistry they enjoyed their rookie season.“We have the makings of a team that is as good, if not better, than that team,” he says.Through three years with the Crimson, Jenkins saw the field mainly as a late-inning defensive replacement or a right-handed pinch hitter, but was thrust unexpectedly into the starting nine down the stretch of last season when Byrne went down with an injury. In the second game of a Sunday doubleheader in Providence, Harvard desperately needed a win to keep...
...There was a sense across the country that the commander-in-chief should be given the leeway to act as he saw fit, said Kennedy School professor Graham T. Allison Jr. ’62. Even in Cambridge, “there was a degree of defence that was unusual,” he said...
...demographic aggression" by launching a high-speed train linking Lhasa to Beijing and other Chinese cities, thus allowing 6,000 more Han Chinese to flood into the Tibetan capital every day. Lhasa, sometimes known as an "abode of the gods," has turned from the small traditional settlement I first saw in 1985 into an Eastern Las Vegas, with a population of 300,000 (two out of every three of them Chinese). On the main streets alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace-for centuries...
...soon as you start talking to the Dalai Lama, as I have been doing for 33 years, you notice that his favorite adjectives are logical and realistic and the verbs he returns to are investigate, analyze and explore. The Buddha was a "scientist," he said the last time I saw him, which means that a true Buddhist should follow the course of reason (recalling, perhaps, that anger most harms the person who feels it). Contact and communication are the methods he always stresses-to this day, he encourages every possibility for dialogue with China and in places even urges Tibetans...
...world's least materially developed countries has, rather remarkably, become one of the leading spokesmen for a new global vision in which we look past divisions of nation, race and religion and try to address our shared problems at the source. Acts of terrorism, he said when I saw him in November, usually arise from some cause deep in the past and will not go away until the root problem is addressed. He could as easily have been talking about the demonstrations of discontent being staged in his homeland nearly a half-century since he saw it last...