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When Thavarasan Singham returned to his grocery shop in May, the shutters were still riddled with bullet holes. Back in 1990, Singham's town of Mankulam, in northern Sri Lanka, was caught in the cross fire between Tamil guerrillas and Sri Lanka's predominantly Sinhalese army. After the Tamil fighters retreated, the army drove into Mankulam. Singham knew what was coming next. Pulling down the shutters of his shop, he ran out the back door with his wife and four children, just before bullets and mortar shells burst into every store in the Tamil-dominated village. For the next...
...Asian Development Bank. Although thousands of Tamils who had to leave their homes during the civil war still languish in refugee camps, conditions in the north are slowly improving. In Killinochchi, an LTTE-controlled town that saw some of the fiercest fighting, a landscape of burned-out, bullet-scarred buildings is intermittently relieved by a brand-new office or restaurant. The LTTE has even opened its own caf? in town, where its guerrillas, retrained as waiters, now wield oversize plates of pungent curry instead of guns...
...asked a few of my online inner circle. Over half of the respondents recommended that I always accept friend requests. “I just bite the bullet and let them be my friend,” says Sarah, a Friendster member since March 2003. “I’m a wimp like that.” You’re not a wimp, sweet Sarah, you’re a “friend whore”—a person who shamelessly allows anyone to enter her e-ranks...
Your "10 Questions For Bill O'Reilly" [INTERVIEW, Oct. 6] quoted the Fox News host as saying about political satirist Al Franken, "He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes." O'Reilly, a petulant man, revealed his crass philosophy, which evidently involves fantasies of killing anyone who points out his lies. JAMIE WAGONER San Francisco...
NYPD BLUE Ratings: [down] 23% It jumped the shark in Season 6 (it's now on 10), when Sipowicz's wife was killed by a stray bullet. Now Andy's on his fourth partner--and getting remarried. The edge is gone. [3 SHARKS...