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...bouts of secondary post-traumatic stress disorder during the process. I had a bout for the first year, and then I had a relapse 2½ years...
...President Mahinda Rajapakse did declare a two-day suspension of offensive operations between April 13 and 14, to coincide with the traditional New Year holiday. During the truce, only about 700 civilians managed to escape the fighting. The latest bout of heavy fighting commenced soon after, with the government rejecting calls by the U.N. and several western countries - including the U.S. - to extend the truce. "The process of the complete defeat of the LTTE has just begun," President Rajapakse told AFP news agency on Monday morning, as he watched footage of the exodus obtained by UAVs showing long lines...
Every now and then—perhaps in the midst of a bout of insomnia or perhaps with premeditation—we might indulge in the gory, campy, low-budget magnificence of the zombie movie. Ever since George A. Romero’s release of “The Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, the zombie movie genre has attracted a cult following all its own. Over the years, the slow-moving, heavily made-up zombies of the classic black and white horror films have transformed into the disease-crazed, CGI-enhanced undead of modern...
...every ability you have, from the smallest to the largest, to do what you can,” Haven said, rousing the roughly 80 persons in attendance to a prolonged bout of applause...
...mother, poet Sylvia Plath, took her life in 1963 after a bout of depression. After battling the same illness for many years, Nicholas Hughes, 47, an Oxford-trained fisheries biologist, hanged himself at his Alaska home on March...