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Here’s a question I asked myself yesterday: Would I rather have my phone records collected and readied for possible inspection by the National Security Agency, or have my genitalia scrutinized by the Transportation Security Administration?
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With North Korea escalating its threats to test a ballistic missile, South Korean President Park Geun Hye was conferring with Bill Gates on another pressing matter. Seated across from Microsoft Corp.’s billionaire co- founder on April 22 at a formal dining table in the Blue House, her official residence, Park picked the tech mogul’s brain about how to nurture entrepreneurs to keep the world’s 15th-largest economy humming.
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Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, the Japanese owner of a cluster of World Heritage Site temples founded in the 9th century, reported losses equal to about a quarter of its assets after bets in the Australian dollar and structured bonds soured.
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Thomas H. Lee, the private-equity manager, said he’d like to do more scuba diving.
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China’s official Tibetan spiritual leader, the Panchen Lama, in a visit to the country’s northwest has told Tibetan Buddhists to obey the law in what analysts say is a government effort to undermine anti-Chinese protest and the exiled Dalai Lama.
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Yoko Ono is a famous person: artist, author, composer, widow of John Lennon and a star.
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Indian authorities have charged Tibetan Buddhism’s third-most important spiritual leader for offenses linked to the January recovery of more than $1 million in foreign currency from his monastery headquarters.
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Official Beijing still prefers Mao to Tao. Only one item (of 250) in “Tao -- Another Way of Being,” a huge exhibition of Chinese art at the Grand Palais in Paris, comes from mainland China.
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The Dalai Lama , Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, said he has no plan to request official talks that would “inconvenience” Japan’s government and that his lecture tour in the country is “non-political.”
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Vikas Swarup, whose first book was adapted into the movie “Slumdog Millionaire”, and Faramerz Dabhoiwala, the author of an opus on the history of sex lured visitors to Asia’s largest literary festival as organizers avoided Salman Rushdie.
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