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...they will raise the required funds. Besides reviewing the plans, government officials have said they plan to weigh in on whether they think the banks' leadership is adequate as well. One of the main factors the government will reportedly be looking at is whether the banks have a sufficiently deep bench of financially savvy board members. And that has a number of banks scrambling to make changes...
...cadets and midshipmen feel “unwelcome” or even “degraded,” as Weatherl writes, by the atmosphere at Harvard—even to the extent that they feel uncomfortable wearing their uniforms to class—then there is indeed a deep moral failure here...
...showrooms without having an auctioneer from Sotheby's down the block taking rapid fire bids on Jeeps and Pontiacs. This will just increases the panic that car buyers feel about the reliability of their local dealers. In order to sell newer models, dealers will have to offer deep discounts and incentives to potential buyers. This means that the car companies and the dealers that are allowed to remain open will have to make substantial investments in marketing to get buyers looking for close-out sales to look at their inventories at all. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
...rest of the world might never understand the violence Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. At the height of his power, just before the 2002 cease-fire, Prabhakaran was the unquestioned leader of a de facto government that controlled more than 15,000 sq km of territory in the north and east of Sri Lanka and had its own system of taxes, roads and courts. By the final weeks of conflict, he was believed to be using thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields against the advance of the Sri Lankan military...
...middle-class family in Valvettiturai, a fishing town on the northern coast of Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula. Very little is known about his early life. "My childhood was spent in the small circle of a lonely, quiet house," he said in a 1994 interview. He described a deep-seated anger against the military and remembered an eighth-grade teacher who exhorted students to take up arms against it. "It is he who impressed on me the need for armed struggle and persuaded me to put my trust in it," Prabhakaran said. Jaffna was then considered the heart of Tamil...