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...against Tamils in areas like education and farming, and made Sinhala chauvinism a winning electoral strategy, most recently last November for President Rajapakse. Eventually, the L.T.T.E. took up the cause for the Tamils and began fighting for their own state in the northeast. Today the Tigers say they will accept a separate nation within a Sri Lankan federation. "The organization favors a form of regional autonomy and self-government," the L.T.T.E.'s chief negotiator, Anton Balasingham, told TIME by e-mail. Rajapakse says he will consider limited Tamil autonomy but rules out federalism, insisting the island remain a unitary state...
...second-generation Asian-Americans in your story discussed the difficulties they have experienced being accepted in U.S. society. But how many of them whole-heartedly accept African-Americans or Mexican-Americans as their equals? Would those Asian-Americans care to live in black or Latino neighborhoods? Bigotry is not practiced exclusively by whites. When it comes to discrimination, it suits people when they are on the giving end and hurts them when they are at the receiving end. Sriram Srinivasan Bangalore, India...
...spokesman James E. Aisner ’68 explained the decision to accept Gottesman, even though he is not a college graduate, by telling The Economist that “extraordinary circumstances will sometimes compel it to drop [its] rule” of only admitting students who hold bachelor's degrees...
...personally, it will be a distinct pleasure to work closely with someone who has been a good friend and colleague for more than 30 years," Bok said in a statement. "We are all in his debt for his willingness once again to accept the challenge of leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...want to hear: there aren't enough troops to do the job. "There's a realization, as every military commander knows, that you cannot be strong everywhere," says Gronski of Ramadi. "In the outlying areas, we think in terms of an economy of force where we are willing to accept risk by not placing as many troops." But while Gronski says his fighting strength is "appropriate," other commanders bristle at the limitations. "I can't believe it each time the Secretary of Defense talks about reducing force," says a senior U.S. officer. War planners in Iraq say just getting...