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"lithang tulku tenzin delek rinpoche or tenzing deleg tibetan wylie bstan dzin bde legs born 1950 in lithang tibet is a tibetan buddhist leader from garze sichuan he was arrested on april 7 2002 during a raid on jamyang choekhorling in garze sichuan china he was accused of being involved in a bomb attack on april 3 2002 on the central square of sichuans provincial capital chengduhe was convicted for alleged involvement in a series of unsolved bombings in his region by the chinese authorities and sentenced to death in december 2002 along with lobsang dhondup a 28year old assistant of his lobsang was executed almost immediately in late january 2003 marking the first execution of a tibetan for political crimes in 20 years tenzin deleks trial began on november 29 2002 before the local court in garze and was sentenced to death with a twoyear execution adjournment overseas human rights groups and united nations human rights experts protested that the case against him was seriously flawed that he did not receive a fair trial and was mistreated in detentionhis sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 26 january 2005 many overseas advocates of tenzin delek rinpoche continue to fight for a retrialtenzin delek is also widely known for working to develop social medical educational and religious institutions for tibetan nomads in eastern tibet as an advocate for environmental conservation in the face of indiscriminate logging and mining projects and as a mediator between tibetans and chinesein november 2009 40000 tibetans in tenzin delek rinpoches home area signed a petition asking for a retrial they staged a hunger strike at the county seat of lithang for a few days which led to the temporary arrest of about 70 tibetans"
"leonard eugene alley born july 10 1940 in richmond virginia is a former major league baseball shortstop who played his entire career for the pittsburgh pirates 196373alley was a modest hitter but an exceptionally steady shortstop with good range and an accurate throwing arm he won two gold glove awards at shortstop 196667 and also garnered two allstar appearances primarily on the strength of his glove he spent most of his career turning double plays with baseball hall of fame second baseman bill mazeroski and the duo set a mlb record of 161 double plays in a season in 1966 that still stands when the pirates set a national league record with 215 total double plays they also joined a select list of eight shortstopsecond baseman duos to each win a gold glove the same season while playing together twice 196768 shoulder and knee problems ultimately ended his career and prevented him from realizing his full potentialon september 2 1970 alley hit an inside the park grand slam at jarry park in montrealagainst the montreal expos with the bases loaded facing carl morton alley hit a line drive which landed in front of center fielder boots day who slipped on the wet grass the ball rolled all the way to the wall in deepest center field and all the baserunners and alley scoredin 1998 alley was inducted into the virginia sports hall of fame"
"catherine heenan full name mary catherine elizabeth heenan is a television news anchor and reporter at krontv in san francisco she grew up in indiana and illinois and spent several summers in ireland and england in northern ireland she graduated from illinois state university where she majored in communication and journalism in milwaukee wisconsin she covered legal and political beats and received numerous awards for her investigative and general assignment reporting when she left milwaukee for san francisco in 1989 to anchor the kron weekend news a city proclamation naming a day in her honor was issuedher work has ranged from political reporting to feature pieces covering everything from papal visits to mafia trials particularly noteworthy is her exclusive series cloistered nuns she and her photographer became the only outsiders ever allowed to enter the monastery of the poor clares in los altos hills heenan is one of the most highly honored reporters in the san francisco bay area in addition to many regional emmys she has won a national emmy and a peabody awardheenan has also covered the peace plan process in northern ireland the womens world cup championship and the 1994 northridge earthquake heenan has been cited in local newspaper best of lists as one of the top anchors in the san francisco bay area"
"douglas h paal chinese is vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment for international peace where he directs the endowments asia program he served as the director of the american institute in taiwan from 2002 to 2006 and worked on the national security council staffs of presidents reagan and george h w bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of asian affairs senior director and special assistant to the president he was vice chairman of jpmorgan chase international from 2006 to 2008 he also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the asia foundationpaal founded the asia pacific policy center in the mid1990s a nonprofit research organization hosted conferences and published a few reports on issues related to us policy in asia there were allegations that the organization functioned less like a think tank than a highend consultancy or even a lobbying firm according to former employees the centers work was almost entirely geared to servicing the needs of its governmental and corporate funders the list of clients as they were apparently often called included the government of malaysia which was thought to have given millions of dollars in contributions the abuse of nonprofit status was heavily discussed in the leadup to paals nomination as director of ait and helped to delay his appointmentprior to his service on the national security council paal worked on the us state department policy planning staff and at the us embassies in singapore and beijing he also worked as a senior analyst and deputy national intelligence officer for the cia he served as a us navy officer in vietnam and studied japanese in tokyo after graduating with bachelors and masters degrees in chinese studies and asian history from brown university and a phd in history and east asian languages from harvard universitypaal has written and spoken widely on us policy in asia and asian affairs his articles and interviews being published and broadcast by the new york times wall street journal south china morning post the national interest korea times washington times far eastern economic review ria novosti world politics review cspan bbc pbs and cctv he has also published numerous commentaries and policy papers through the carnegie endowment for international peacepaal resides with his wife betsy a fitzgerald in bethesda maryland they have two daughters alice who served as a peace corps volunteer in mauritania and victoria a lawyer in san francisco"