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Saturday, March 20, 2004
Terrorism leaves us no place to run
45 years ago, witness to Dalai Lama's flight did not know history being made
Forty-five years ago, the Dalai Lama disguised himself as a soldier and sneaked out of Lhasa where his predecessors ruled supreme for centuries, in one of the most dramatic flights of the 20th century.
· Tibetan monk [link first seen at China Letter][ via Gianna]
· The Taiwanese president, Chen Shui-bian, and the vice-president, Annette Lu, survived an assassination attempt
I say the world isn't any more dangerous than it was Sept. 10, 2001. It was just as dangerous then, we just didn't realize it.
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· [ courtesy of Not Much]