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...night and day. With kids, it used to be "I don't like my forehead" or "I'm not pretty enough." Now it's, "How can I get my dad to call me? He's shacking up with some girl...
...some pretty tough language with your callers. Sometimes you call them "brats" or "whiners." Saturday Night Live even spoofed the way you talk on the air. What do you say to people who think you don't show much compassion or sympathy...
...wall of old letterboxes. "It is ironic that disposable items are being kept in a museum," says Young, who argues that the products embody Hong Kong's historical can-do spirit and resourcefulness. "They should not be thrown away just because their function has expired." For information, call...
...more than a quarter-century, the Tamil Tigers have waged a guerilla war against the Sri Lankan government in their attempt to establish an independent state - which they call Eelam - for minority Hindu Tamils in the north and east of the island nation. Suicide bombings and assassinations have been the group's calling cards, all orchestrated by Velupillai Prabhakaran, who founded the insurgent group in the mid-70s. Now, a months-long push by the Sri Lankan military appears to have mortally wounded the group, considered by the United States a terrorist organization, trapping the Tigers (and thousands of Tamil...
...anyone standing outside of a building, consider it hostile intent and fire at will." A vicious burst of gunfire echoed from below the post, silenced only by the roar of mortars hitting the insurgents' suspected positions. Then all was still. The thin, wavering sound of the call to prayer lifted from the village below. The soldiers could see nothing. They had no idea if they had been able to defeat their enemy or if he had simply disappeared back into the village he had come from...