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...even at Mount Holyoke College, an all-women school in South Hadley, Mass., a town so tiny it has but one bar. No matter. Before dances, women simply tend bar in their dorm rooms. "We are really shy when we go out. We are not confident," says freshman Chandrika Christie. "But if we drink, we put ourselves out there." Her friend Jenn Richardson says the objective is "to get drunk as quickly as possible." Richardson has built up quite a tolerance, so she says this usually takes her about five shots of hard alcohol, two ciders and a cocktail...
...cease-fire beginning on Christmas Eve. Wickremesinghe, who has said that he will negotiate with the rebels, responded to the olive branch by pledging that the government will comply "as a goodwill gesture to facilitate peace." Sri Lanka's previous government pursued an aggressive military strategy favored by President Chandrika Kumaratunga, Wickremesinghe's longtime archrival...
...Offer The government made a surprise announcement that it would consider signing a cease-fire agreement with Tamil Tiger separatists ahead of a new round of peace talks. But the rebels dismissed the olive branch as a ploy to divert attention from a political crisis faced by President Chandrika Kumaratunga's ruling party. Kumaratunga suspended Parliament in July to avoid a no-confidence vote after losing her parliamentary majority...
...aircraft. The dead - seven servicemen and 14 rebels - included several suicide bombers, who detonated explosives strapped around their bodies. The attack was thought to have marked the anniversary of the 1983 anti-Tamil riots, when more than 400 people died, provoking the ongoing civil war. Three weeks ago President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament for two months after her People's Alliance government lost its majority in the 225-seat body. GREAT BRITAIN Save the Whales Despite intense pressure from Japan and Norway, the International Whaling Commission meeting in London ended without a vote on repealing a ban on commercial whaling...
...LANKA Peace Talks Norwegian-led efforts to secure a truce between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels were complicated by a bomb attack on a rebel leader and demands by a leading Muslim party for a role in the peace process. Envoy Erik Solheim held talks with President Chandrika Kumaratunga and met Tamil leaders in rebel-held territory, but discussions ended without a breakthrough. Both sides agreed to continue deliberations to end the 18-year conflict...