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Dalai Lama embraces religious tolerance San Francisco Chronicle
"Referring to himself as one of the 'defenders of Islam,' the Dalai Lama, the world's most influential Buddhist leader, urged an interfaith gathering in San Francisco on Saturday to promote a pluralistic view of religion. The Nobel Peace Prize winner said that the era of 'one truth, one religion' was reserved for ancient times in which many of the world's religions were founded. But not today. The Dalai Lama said all believers need to learn understanding for other faiths -- particularly for Islam, because, he noted, oil from the Middle East fuels economies around the world. 'In terms of community, in terms of humanity, the concept of several truths, several religions is very relevant,' he said." (04/16/06)
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MA: Dueling do-gooders Boston Globe
"They plant flowers, pick up trash, hold bake sales. In all of civic life, there may be few images more harmonious than those of the volunteers who look after neighborhood parks. Not so in Allston these days. At Stanley A. Ringer Park, two volunteer groups -- Ringer Park Partnership Group and the new Friends of Ringer Park -- have now emerged from a recent history of rancor and power-grabs. In a word, the groups hate each other. Their leaders have exchanged insults in the letters section of a neighborhood newspaper. Meetings at a local community center have been carefully scheduled to avoid confrontations, and the park's annual spring cleanup this year will be two separate efforts. The conflict, simmering since 2004, entered a new phase last month when one leader spread word that an opponent of the group was a Level 2 sex offender. Volunteer groups in Boston play a key role in park maintenance and beautification, and city parks officials routinely meet with groups to coordinate efforts. But behind closed doors at City Hall, some officials have taken to calling some of the feuding Allston volunteers the 'nutcases from Ringer Park.'" (04/15/06)
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US building massive embassy in Baghdad Yahoo! News
"The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future. The new U.S. Embassy also seems as cloaked in secrecy as the ministate in Rome. 'We can't talk about it. Security reasons,' Roberta Rossi, a spokeswoman at the current embassy, said when asked for information about the project. ... The embassy complex -- 21 buildings on 104 acres, according to a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report -- is taking shape on riverside parkland in the fortified 'Green Zone,' just east of al-Samoud, a former palace of Saddam Hussein's, and across the road from the building where the ex-dictator is now on trial." (04/14/06) http://tinyurl.com/nu6rc


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