 PHOTO: Bryan Meltz
A live webcast shows Buddhist monks creating a mandala from millions of grains of colored sand, which will be dispersed at a closing ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 23. The mandala is one of a myriad of arts and cultural events in honor of the His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s visit to Emory. For more photos and full coverage of this historic event, please see the Oct. 29 issue of Emory Report.
View the live webcast at www.emory.edu/_mandala-cam/.
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero describes horrors
Paul Rusesabagina was having dinner with friends the evening of April 6, 1994, when the president of Rwanda’s plane was shot down. Shortly after the missile hit the plane in Kigali, his wife Tatiana called him and said, “I’ve heard something I’ve never heard in my life. Please rush and come back home.”
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