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...Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and bureaucracy," recalls the woman whose name means "patience" in Turkish (her mom studied in Turkey in college). "Sometimes it was hell, but I enjoy challenges!" Fifty pupils have been made welcome at the center, where they learn to read and write Tibetan, Chinese and English, and also receive vocational training. But their most important lesson is self-reliance. "We want to show the kids that they don't have to be ashamed of their handicap. We want them to stand up and say: 'I am blind, not stupid!'" she says. Tenberken...
...great-great-grandfather’s footsteps by following Phish’s tour bus. Michael respected his ancestor’s way of life, but he was convinced that there was no way Mozart could have jammed the way that Trey and Page could. Sure, Mozart could write an Alberti bass, but could he play a convincing cover of Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein...
Travolta sums up the ideals that went into the creation of the movie. “Everyone left their ego at the doorstep and felt they could finally give back something,” he says. “It’s humanity. You guys write the important stories and we just play them...
...denying that individual media outlets cover events differently. Just look at the headlines. When interim Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi addressed a joint session of Congress recently, reporters from both Fox News and CNN attended the same speech—but they didn’t write the same stories. The headline on CNN.com read, “Bush: US Won’t Abandon Iraqi People.” Fox News chose the simpler: “Allawi: Thank You America.” Judging only from the headlines, Fox’s pro-Iraq war, conservative stance...
We’re demanding unreasonable things from the men and women who write our news. We want the CBS ten o’clock news to be as exciting as the 9 o’clock drama. And we also want each bit of news analyzed accurately and neutrally. We want to think that the biased, sensationalized headlines flashing in front of us actually reflect the truth, even as our own demands on media make the truth harder and harder to present in a way that interests us. Until Americans stop insisting that the media cater to contradictory goals...