I researched "In the Shadow of the Buddha" for nearly a decade in Tibet, Nepal and India; wrote much of it on the Lower East Side in New York City; and edited most of it while sitting at the coffee shop 'Modern Times' just below Politics & Prose in Washington DC. And the book was launched at Politics & Prose to a standing room only with over 100 folks. So I had to smile when I saw Politics and Prose in Doonesbury yesterday. Love it.