<DIV align=center><STRONG><BR>Rocker Courtney Love</STRONG><BR></DIV>
<DIV align=left><BR><SPAN lang=EN-US>The Himalayan Times, November 6, 2006</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>Rocker Courtney Love credits Buddhism with helping her overcome addiction and getting her life back on track.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>The '<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Malibu</st1:City></st1:place>' singer has just released a new book, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries Of Courtney Love, which includes old photographs, scribbled song lyrics and even an email exchange with Lindsay Lohan regarding dealing with negative press coverage.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>Love insists her hard-partying days are behind her and claims her conversion to Buddhism helped her remain sober.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>"I'm a Buddhist now and I chant every day. I chant for a long time. Some people that chant, I'm just going to out them, Orlando Bloom chants, Tina Turner they do half an hour a day," she was quoted by Contactmusic, as saying.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US>"But I was doing four and five hours a day sometimes. With smoke breaks!" she added.</SPAN></P>
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