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Misplaced Passion (Part 1)

Alice Poon
May 01, 2008
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“At that time I was traveling in Italy. I saw on newspaper stands in several cities pictures of the young monks and of their spiritual leader Dalai Lama, as well as headlines showing Beijing and the Olympics. People’s attention had migrated from the Clinton and Obama presidential campaigns to the far-away Chinese western highlands.

At first I thought tha…

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