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Now I've heard everything. While sitting on the hot tarmac today in South Carolina, missing my connecting plane to Copenhagen because of an engine problem, I was reading the latest issue of Newsweek and couldn't believe my bleary eyes. "In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission." The story claims the motive is to "cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama....By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama."

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