Olympics

August 9, 2008 - 4:00am

Turning our Backs on Tibet

Tibet – the broad, high plateau between India and China – is bigger than Western Europe and the source of the great rivers of Asia: the Indus, the Yangtze, the Yarlung Tsangpol, and the Salween. Mysterious and exotic, the “Roof of the World” is the place of Tantric Buddhism, seers, and mystics capable of levitation and astral travel – at least to those who do not understand a civilization where tradition and religion are living forces and whose peoples radiate a serenity and gentleness long extinct in modern society.

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April 10, 2008 - 11:23am
PRESS RELEASE

SENATORS MENENDEZ, BYRD, CLINTON CALL ON PRESIDENT BUSH NOT TO ATTEND OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONIES

WASHINGTON – Today, as the Olympic torch relay makes its only stop in the United States, U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) are officially calling on President Bush not to attend the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing this summer.

In their letter to Bush the Senators wrote:

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