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Lama. He completed a doctoral thesis in molecular biology at the Pasteur Institute in 1972,
but left academia for Buddhism shortly thereafter. He has translated and edited numerous
books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the author of Journey to Enlightenment and co-author of
the best-selling book Le Moine et Le Philosophe with his father, philosopher and writer
Jean-François Revel. Ricard currently lives at the monastery of Shechen near Kathmandu,
Nepal.
JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN is the northeast regional director of Amnesty International
USA and a Fellow at the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies at
Harvard University. He is the author of Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human
Rights and Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg.
SIDNEY SHACHNOW (Maj. Gen. U.S. Army, Ret.) was born in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1934
and was an inmate in the Kovno concentration camp from 1941 until his escape in 1944.
Immigrating to America in 1950, he subsequently enlisted in the United States Army and
fought in Vietnam as a Green Beret. A recipient of many decorations for valor in combat, he
served as the Commanding General of the Special Forces from 1991 to 1992.
DOROTHEE SOELLE is a theologian who teaches in her native Germany as well as
at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Among her publications are Choosing Life;
Of War and Love; Political Theology; and Beyond Mere Obedience. She was the first
theologian to be awarded the Theodore Heuss Medal for “civil courage and democracy.”
ALBERT SPEER was a high-ranking Nazi, one of the planners of the Third Reich and
Hitler's minister of armaments from 1942 to 1945. At the Nuremberg trials, he admitted
responsibility for actions of the Nazis and was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. In
prison he wrote two books: Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. He