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MIAMI — The Dalai Lama has offered $100,000 to help an imperiled religion department at a Florida university after receiving an e-mailed plea for a letter of support from a longtime acquaintance on the faculty.
“He responded with this astounding, astounding offer,” said Nathan Katz, a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. “I fell off my chair.” The department is one of three slated to close due to state funding cuts.
