Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Harvard News: Buddhism, shootings, LAPD

There was a Harvard campus shooting yesterday bringing the most prestigious university in the world into the fray of inexplicable school shootings. Of course, such shootings have been explained in ways too difficult to accept. They planned, instigated, and triggered by PsyOps official to sow fear, uncertainty, and control (Stewart Swerdlow).
While such claims are dismissed out of hand, if only to lead a peaceful life, it is quite difficult to explain the 15 year old in Louisiana who planned a rampage, missed the teacher he shot, then shot himself in the head: He neither knew the teacher, took sufficient ammo to execute any such a plan, nor did he succeed in taking his own life. Meanwhile...

Dalai Lama: Smart does not mean happy
Boston Globe (5/1/09)‎
At Harvard, he flipped through a program while a group of Tibetan girls performed a dance for him; at MIT, as the Buddhist chaplain delivered closing...

Small Somerville publisher helps the Dalai Lama share his teachings
Boston Globe (5/16/09)‎
Inspired by them, McNeill took a course in meditation and introduction to Buddhism, a family of beliefs that help people develop wisdom and compassion....

Harvard report: A new kinder, gentler LAPD Troy Anderson (5/18/09)
After facing its darkest days following the Rodney King beating and Rampart police scandal in the 1990s, the Los Angeles Police Department has significantly redeemed itself in the eyes of the public, according to a Harvard University study released Monday.

A full 83 percent of city residents say the LAPD [which serves Hollywood and its celebrity elite as well as the South Central home of rap music] is doing a good or excellent job -- up from 71 percent two years ago, the study said. The percentage of people saying the department was doing an excellent job doubled in the period, the study found. More>>

Rev. Russell E. Brown dies
Philadelphia Inquirer (5/17/09)
He went so far that, while on home furlough in 1956, he studied Buddhism at Harvard University, she said. On April 28, Mr. Brown, 86, died of Alzheimer's...

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