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The Karmapa, one of the most important leaders in Tibetan Buddhism, is visiting the United States. Some think the young lama will succeed the Dalai Lama as the next spokesman for Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet. Robert Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, talks about the 22-year-old Karmapa.

Dalian, China, a coastal city not far from North Korea, has created an unlikely alliance with the State University of New York. In the city's quest to be world-class and high-tech, it has turned to SUNY for help in training autoworkers at Dalian's University of Technology.

Single-handedly this film may have inspired a whole young generation to fall back in love with movies and with movie making much in the same way that the French New Wavers made filmmaking fun, sexy and a bit punk back in the 60s. Narrative structure fascinates writer-director Quentin Tarantino. In some ways the telling of the story is more important than the story itself. For him, going from point A to point B is not only too simple but it's simply not fun - like having sex without foreplay. Tarantino's solution is to chop up the narrative and rearrange the pieces in unexpected ways so that climaxes and reveals occur in unlikely places. He also takes delight in having his characters tell jokes and stories as another means of playing with our expectations about narrative structure.

Since the beginning of 2008, the U.S. military reports 14 female suicide bomb attacks in Iraq, up from eight such incidents in 2007. Preventing such attacks — which have caused some of the highest numbers of casualties in recent months — is a challenge.

China is in the midst of a building boom of colleges and universities. The country is attempting to improve the quality of these institutions and its world ranking.

Mr. Lebowski : "Do you speak English son... A handout." So like the Dude gets nowhere with his request so he just takes one of Mr. Lebowskis rugs. Of…

FBI agents raided a federal agency, the Office of the Special Counsel, amid allegations that the office has been misused for political purposes. Agents investigating possible obstruction of justice confiscated computers and also searched the home of Scott Bloch, the head of the OSC.

FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of the Special Counsel, the agency that investigates whistleblower and discrimination complaints by federal employees. The FBI is examining allegations of political misconduct by agency employees.

Representatives of the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama met Monday in South China for a second day of talks to try to resolve their differences. Foreign governments have been pressuring Beijing to open a dialogue with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader after weeks of riots.

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