Ascension: The Dalai Lama climbed a Siberian...

Ascension: The Dalai Lama climbed a Siberian mountain sacred to Buddhists to hold a religious service Sunday. The Buddhist leader ascended Mount Alkhanai, where a prayer is said to be visible on a granite slab. He led a meditation intended to purify the site.

Double Trouble: CBS newsperson Bob Schieffer hopes the automobile insurance company will be sympathetic. Schieffer was awakened at about 2:30 one morning last week by a crash outside his Washington home. A large tree had fallen across the road and smashed his daughter Susan’s Saab. The National Park Service came to clear the road at 4 a.m., and Schieffer was awakened again by another loud crash. A worker, cutting the tree in half, caused part of it to fall onto the Audi owned by his other daughter, Sharon.

Revised Edition: In Pittsfield, Mass., 130 miles from the sea, admirers of Herman Melville are reclaiming the house where the author wrote “Moby Dick” 141 years ago. The home, a mecca for Melville scholars, is being restored as a shrine to the author, who died in 1891 at age 72. Melville lived at the 211-year-old home from 1850 to 1863 and called it Arrowhead.

A Smallish Affair: Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke drew an all-white audience of 25 in Memphis, Tenn., to a fund-raiser for a youth center while the black church listed as the event’s sponsor distanced itself from the affair. “It was a small turnout. But I had nothing to do with arranging it,” said Duke, a Louisiana state representative, after his 25-minute address on welfare and affirmative action. Rev. Douglas Bell said he allowed the use of his church’s name to help raise money for the center.