"My main motive is to push the Tibetan cause all over the world, because I know what is going on in Tibet," she said in her hotel room, as she prepared for the contest, plastic beads in her hair and blue bangles on her wrists...

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JERUSALEM: Some of Jerusalem s nicest people gathered the other night to listen to a talk by an Israeli soldier, troubled by how he and some of his colleagues had behaved in the occupied West Bank...

My first tattoo "heaven" in memory of Ian who watches over me in heaven. "heaven" ink done at Dragon's Lair in Salem, NH My first tattoo "heaven" in memory of Ian who watches over me in heaven...

I am writing this on my laptop from a wobbly wrought-iron caf table sitting by a battered wood banquette in the back of the hippest, coolest, most damnably noncorporate coffeehouse that I know of in Los Angeles...

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