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...working on an epic Bollywood musical; agents are trying to lure Bollywood stars; producers at a couple of major studios are even talking possible releases of subtitled Hindi musicals. I could give you a quick guide to Bollywood stars and hits, but that would be useful and thus defeat the purpose of this column. Instead, I'll just give you more...
...always hard to beat a guerrilla army fighting for independence on home ground, but even more so when the insurgents are better armed than the government forces. Sri Lanka found itself forced to declare martial law Thursday following another dramatic defeat at the hands of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who last week took control of the gateway to the disputed Jaffna province, leaving some 40,000 government troops trapped and surrounded. And to make matters worse, India - whose government includes parties from India's Tamil province, and which was eventually asked by Sri Lanka to withdraw the last...
...Hindu Tamil form about 20 percent of Sri Lanka's population, with the majority Sinhalese, who are largely Buddhist, making up about 75 percent) are likely to demand de facto control over the Jaffna peninsula as their price. In acceding to such a demand the government would concede defeat in a campaign that has cost the army thousands of casualties. And even though Kumaratunga's war powers proclamation allows her to shut down newspapers, that's unlikely to stop Sri Lankans from questioning whether the war is worth fighting...
With yesterday's 3-2 defeat at the hands of Vermont, the Harvard baseball team has now dropped four straight games, as well as eleven of its last fourteen...
...Latter-day Saints have been instrumental in helping defeat pro-gay initiatives in at least three states. In 1995 Jack Goaslind Jr., a prominent church member who currently sits on the Scouts advisory council, said the church "would withdraw our charter membership" if scouting were required to admit gays. Moreover, in the Dale case, most major conservative groups in the U.S., from the Family Research Council to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, have sided with the Scouts...