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...spend,” Kwong says. “I ended up spending half of my budget on photocopying stuff and shipping [the copies] back to the United States.” Most offices provide budget guidelines on the application, but a significant amount of the grant is often spent on unanticipated necessities. But when changes to the budget do arise, the grant-giving offices are typically forgiving. They will not provide additional funds, but they will understand minor deviations from the original budget. Even major changes are accepted in exceptional circumstances. Deep in rural China, Kwong says...
Holocaust survivor Andrew Burian recounted his experiences in concentration camps during World War II to warn against the dangers of discrimination and to emphasize the importance of kindness, before a crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, concentration camps in Poland and Austria. Burian told his story to the crowd to fulfill his personal responsibility “as a witness” to history, he said. “I urge you to do your part, to participate in the liberation...
...believed Reagan's grand plan for a system that would render Moscow's nuclear-tipped missiles "impotent and obsolete" died along with the Soviet Union. But "Star Wars" has been resurrected, and has been standing guard over America's skies since 2004. But the more than $120 billion spent over 25 years to build the "Star Wars" missile shield has not left the U.S. less vulnerable to attack - some would argue that it has done exactly the opposite, by diverting resources away from dealing with more urgent and plausible threats...
...psychologists, non-Buddhist priests and philosophers-from Harvard to Hiroshima and Zurich to Malibu-since 1979. I'm not a Buddhist myself, only a typically skeptical journalist whose father, a professional philosopher, happened to meet the Dalai Lama in 1960, the year after he went into exile. But having spent time watching wars and revolutions everywhere from Sri Lanka to Beirut, I've grown intrigued by the quietly revolutionary ideas that the Dalai Lama has put into play. China and Tibet will long be geographic neighbors, he implies, so for Tibetans to think of the Chinese as their enemies...
...Dharamsala, you find as many Tibetans looking to the West for salvation as you find Westerners looking to Tibet. Melancholy signs in the Tibetan government-in-exile compound say Tibetan Torture Survivors' Program and Voice Of Tibet (Voice For The Voiceless), and many young Tibetans feel they have spent all their lives dreaming of a country they've never seen. In Tibet, meanwhile, I remember-visiting in 1990, when the shadow of martial law hung over the capital-seeing soldiers on the rooftops of the low buildings around the central Jokhang Temple and tanks stationed just outside the city limits...